On my last meyers-briggs test, I got EXACTLY in between introvert and extrovert, 50/50, to where it said it was a tie o_O I think that a couple of accurate ways to put it, for me, are that I am a VERY PICKY extrovert, or, an introvert with no social anxiety. *shrug*
Your comment has made me think a lot, about things that can come to seem normal and how we can choose whether or not to fixate on particular issues, and how ALL of our bodies are really just complex, vulnerable webs of intricate systems that are each gradually wearing down...
I think that if I was you, I would definitely be doctor shopping big time for someone who would follow the MD Anderson plan. I would also be spending inordinate amounts of time trying to figure out exactly what my priorities and plans for the rest of my life were - not because it would necessarily be shorter than anyone else's, but because brushes with mortality in general just cause me to do that.
My hope is that if my lung mets ever get to a point where I NEED surgery, we'll have sufficient advancements in medical technology/laser surgery/other to deal with it
This is another thing I think about all the time. There are new studies out almost every day re: autoimmunity. And obesity, and both often focusing on gut bacteria. I feel that many things will be very obvious, when my kids are grown, that are only barely starting to be hinted at, now... Grant was just telling me the other day about a way someone invented for gun shot wounds to be plugged, on the battlefield, so that soldiers don't lie there bleeding to death until they can be taken to a hospital. Little things that make all the difference, that nobody had ever thought of before.
This is my own ignorance showing, I'm sure, but how is it that you've had a total thyroidectomy, and still need to suppress your thyroid? I understand the need to take synthroid since you don't have a thyroid to produce TSH, but not how you would have to suppress something that isn't there anymore.
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On my last meyers-briggs test, I got EXACTLY in between introvert and extrovert, 50/50, to where it said it was a tie o_O I think that a couple of accurate ways to put it, for me, are that I am a VERY PICKY extrovert, or, an introvert with no social anxiety. *shrug*
Your comment has made me think a lot, about things that can come to seem normal and how we can choose whether or not to fixate on particular issues, and how ALL of our bodies are really just complex, vulnerable webs of intricate systems that are each gradually wearing down...
I think that if I was you, I would definitely be doctor shopping big time for someone who would follow the MD Anderson plan. I would also be spending inordinate amounts of time trying to figure out exactly what my priorities and plans for the rest of my life were - not because it would necessarily be shorter than anyone else's, but because brushes with mortality in general just cause me to do that.
My hope is that if my lung mets ever get to a point where I NEED surgery, we'll have sufficient advancements in medical technology/laser surgery/other to deal with it
This is another thing I think about all the time. There are new studies out almost every day re: autoimmunity. And obesity, and both often focusing on gut bacteria. I feel that many things will be very obvious, when my kids are grown, that are only barely starting to be hinted at, now... Grant was just telling me the other day about a way someone invented for gun shot wounds to be plugged, on the battlefield, so that soldiers don't lie there bleeding to death until they can be taken to a hospital. Little things that make all the difference, that nobody had ever thought of before.
This is my own ignorance showing, I'm sure, but how is it that you've had a total thyroidectomy, and still need to suppress your thyroid? I understand the need to take synthroid since you don't have a thyroid to produce TSH, but not how you would have to suppress something that isn't there anymore.