So lots and lots has happened since my last post. Almost too much to tell. But here’s some of it.
My sister has had surgery to remove two malignant tumours. After a week in hospital, she’s now home, still in remarkable spirits for someone who has been through so much.
With that and a lot of pressure at work, there’s been days I’ve forgotten to take my meds and I’m getting heart palpitations intermittently. Still much better than before. I do think I’m beginning to chunk up a bit though. Could really do without that part. Guess I will have to be really really careful about eating. Finding that I still can’t really drink alcohol. Even two glasses makes me feel quite ill. And still keeping caffeine consumption low although allowing myself the off cup of tea here and there. Next blood test is next week.
And today I was offered a new job with great pay, conditions and they seem to be a really cool group of people with a lot of empathy for their staff. I’m considering things over the weekend but more than likely I’ll accept and be able to put my current job situation behind me. With a new sense of strength I can see even more clearly that being there in the first place was the wrong move and not just because it coincided with my diagnosis at the height of my symptoms.
I read somewhere this week that the singer, Toni Childs (not my musical cup of tea), suffers with Graves disease and she had a ten year ‘break’ in order to recover. In the article she said that she had to change her whole life. It really brought home to me the need to take this disease seriously as the ramifications can be far reaching not just for the sufferer but their friends and family too.
