Oh
hello December! I promise to write as frequent as I could this month.
I was just extremely busy lately due to the early
Christmas shopping spree and appointment with my endocrinologist. I now have a new endocrinologist because the previous one seems to be the
only one where I live thus it's such a pain setting up an appointment.
Health is Wealth...
As
I always say, I hate hospitals but, I am happy with my new Endoc because he answers all my questions as honest as possible. I was advised to cease taking my vitamins for the time being
to see if my body will respond better to meds. Since he's an Internists at the same time, I was also advised that, I take
other tests other than the usual blood test (FT4, TSH) to also check my cholesterol level and come back after a month which I did. My blood test turned out fine, everything is normal so my only concern now is to rid off the muscle cramps and reduce any signs of hypothyroidism as it can no longer be totally eradicated. My Endoc eventually increased my dosage and advised that It's really all
up to me how I would control my intake. I asked how come my muscle
cramps seemed terrible whenever I am stressed out and I feel
depressed at times for no reason at all. He responded that the reason
behind that it's 'cuz my body is releasing insufficient hormones for
my activities thus explains the depression and muscle cramps. That, I
have to increase my dosage to address the lack of. I just then
realized how odd my life would be from now on, I now have to gauge how many dosage (of hormone replacement meds) I have to take whilst my body is supposedly doing that job for me, a lifetime side effect of my RAI (radioactive iodine treatment). I once stopped taking Levothyroxine without telling my Endoc but It didn't do me any good. I
gained weight so fast and my muscle cramps came back plus the
depression. I
tried understanding my condition for as much as I could but It was
really difficult without any aid from my Doctor. So
far so good, I am taking my meds religiously and I have no
plans of stopping because I don't want to go through the same ordeal I
went through before. I really felt like an emotional
wreck without my meds so I guess I shouldn't self medicate because
battling against any thyroid related disorder is serious. I think
taking my meds before I go to bed did all the trick so I don't feel
sleepy and tired that much during the day.
I finally
finished reading the last book from the Winterhaven Trilogy by Kristi
Cook called “Eternal” (Winterhaven #3). Sorry to be such a spoiler.
Aidan, Violet and
friends went to Paris after their high school graduation to celebrate and fight the bad vampires to restore the Tribunal. The battle against the bad vamps was a success except Aidan took the serum which was handed to him by Matthew (Violet's
'Megved'). Matthew perfected the serum and
carefully instructed Violet that she must inject the serum to Aidan's no matter what. Violet was totally hesitant but she still managed to inject the serum to Aidan thus he resurrected, now a human
being. Matthew unfortunately died. Violet was distraught with Matthew's death, he needed to die for Aidan to live. Violet in the long
run met her Sabbath family and their Megved
counterparts. The End. I thought, the
Winterhaven trilogy was entertaining.
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Next read: Another one of Neil Gaiman novels called Fortunately,
the Milk.
It's 20 days to go before Christmas...
Speaking
of the holidays, My lovely make up brushes came in through mail last
week! I purposely ordered a month early for
Christmas as it's a reward for myself (for working so damn hard) and for my
sister. It was a 12 piece brush set btw and is a good
alternative for the really expensive ones.
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| sunflowers for Mum :) |
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something for my sweet
tooth :)
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Sunflowers in bloom
They're such a pretty sight to behold.
