I need to update the email this account gets notifications too. Sheesh.
There have been several times (personal and work) where I've had to take personality tests of various kinds. At this point I just expect to have to take any test twice because getting an inconclusive result happens a lot. I've gotten more and more reserved as I've gotten older.
Learning new normals is an interesting concept to me as well. I originally had SUCH issues with having to take my synthroid every day. MD Anderson has good research going on, and the rate of advancement in knowledge and technology is SO FAST now.
I have gone through a LOT of endos. Everything from the southern good ol' boy who told me my 60lb weight gain immediately post-thyroidectomy was my fault, the awesome lady doc who left to kaiser, the INCREDIBLE old scottish gent who wrote the book on nuclear medicine and endocrinology (well-deserved retirement), delusional skinny japanese lady who at my intake appointment gave me the stunning dietary advice of switching my snacks to carrots, to the current one. I have pretty good faith we'll be able to get back on the same page. I just am not in any hurry to have to get another endo up to speed on my entire back history, yanno?
Need to suppress the thyroid because the tumors are thyroid cells. :) So they are thyroid cells gone whacko, and even though we removed the vast majority via surgery and frying them with radioiodine, some cells survived, and metastasized to the lungs. They will have uptake of iodine too, so radioiodine would work against them, generally. I may have an additional course of radioiodine in the future at some point, but I've already had 3 and I forget how many millicuries I've had but it's close enough to increased risk of blood cancers that it bears paying attention to. That and the last time I had radioiodine my tumors were kind of resistant to it. I am totally sorry if any of that explanation sounded condescending! Recently been told I go too high-handed with medical stuff sometimes (product of work + family) and trying to simplify.
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Date: 2014-03-10 08:17 am (UTC)There have been several times (personal and work) where I've had to take personality tests of various kinds. At this point I just expect to have to take any test twice because getting an inconclusive result happens a lot. I've gotten more and more reserved as I've gotten older.
Learning new normals is an interesting concept to me as well. I originally had SUCH issues with having to take my synthroid every day. MD Anderson has good research going on, and the rate of advancement in knowledge and technology is SO FAST now.
I have gone through a LOT of endos. Everything from the southern good ol' boy who told me my 60lb weight gain immediately post-thyroidectomy was my fault, the awesome lady doc who left to kaiser, the INCREDIBLE old scottish gent who wrote the book on nuclear medicine and endocrinology (well-deserved retirement), delusional skinny japanese lady who at my intake appointment gave me the stunning dietary advice of switching my snacks to carrots, to the current one. I have pretty good faith we'll be able to get back on the same page. I just am not in any hurry to have to get another endo up to speed on my entire back history, yanno?
Need to suppress the thyroid because the tumors are thyroid cells. :) So they are thyroid cells gone whacko, and even though we removed the vast majority via surgery and frying them with radioiodine, some cells survived, and metastasized to the lungs. They will have uptake of iodine too, so radioiodine would work against them, generally. I may have an additional course of radioiodine in the future at some point, but I've already had 3 and I forget how many millicuries I've had but it's close enough to increased risk of blood cancers that it bears paying attention to. That and the last time I had radioiodine my tumors were kind of resistant to it. I am totally sorry if any of that explanation sounded condescending! Recently been told I go too high-handed with medical stuff sometimes (product of work + family) and trying to simplify.