Does dog walking pay the mortgage?

I work in a pretty high stress environment, responsible for spending millions of dollars of someone elses money. It’s a young workforce and I’m already on the older end. I earn a good salary but I sometimes find myself daydreaming about doing other, less stressful things like dog walking & cat sitting, or running a kitchenware shop (I worked in one for a while and loved it!). The endocrinologist told me that some of her patients had gone into spontaneous remission following a change of career. Yesterday was particularly stressful and I ended up in tears in front of my boss. I’m not sure which of us was more shocked! Got my period today and perhaps a sign the drugs are working…they are as heavy and as painful as they were years ago (i.e. very heavy and very painful). I treated the pain with a chunky sized bar of chocolate with hazelnuts and I DO feel better ;-> . Walked the 20 minutes from the train to work today and yesterday…it’s a start!

Should I feel special?

US studies suggest that Graves Disease affects just 0.25% of the population. So thats 99.75% of the population then who have no idea what I’m on about. I’ve certainly found that most people give me a blank stare if I mention it and sympathy is fairly thin on the ground. And not that I’m seeking it but it would be something of a relevation if someone actually expressed concern or asked how I was feeling. I come from a family with a few genetic quirks so in actuality this disease is ‘not that big a deal’ in the context of some of the other things my family has withstood. But still….