Joke of the Day

You know you are chronically ill when...

you wear out your slippers before your street shoes.
you go pajama shopping instead of dress shopping (online of course).
you wear out your bathrobe before your coat.

One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four...

I feel like the proverbial hot potato today.  I got a call from the infectious disease doctor this morning and they are now done with me.  After 18 vials of blood the only things they found was a slight B12 deficiency, a slightly elevated thyroid number and high inflammation numbers.  None of which seemed to concern my primary doc.  So now I am getting a referral to doctors number four and five, an endocrinologist and a rheumetologist.  So back to waiting.  I'm guessing it is going to be a month before I get to see either one and I'm also guessing that they will want to take more blood samples.

Quote of the Day

Buddhist Quote of the Day

From

All states that can be returned to external causes are obviously not you, but that which cannot be returned to anywhere, if it is not you, what is it? Therefore, you should know that your mind is fundamentally wonderful, bright, and pure and that because of your involvement with the things of the world you have covered it up and lost it. In this way you are caught on the endless wheel of becoming this or that, sinking and floating in that sea of endless becoming. Awaken yourself now to your own bright mind.


-Surangama Sutra
From "The Pocket Buddha Reader," edited by Anne Bancroft, 2000.

Christmas List

I'm starting my Christmas list.  And number one on my list is an art kit.  On the odd days that my brain is functional I'm bored.  I used to draw and sculpt when I was in high school and college.  I think it is time to take this up again.  Since I haven't done this is over 20 years I have no trouble stating with art kits that have instruction books in them.  I like this one since it has a little bit of everything:

It is from Walter Foster who makes art supplies.  I probably own some somewhere.  I also like their calligraphy kits (another art form I haven't done in decades) and pencil drawing kits.

Funny You Should Mention That

Talking of thyroids look what just popped up at Zenfully Delicious - Hashimoto's Thyroiditis  This is the type of thyroiditis you typically get post viral infection.  It also explains that my high TSH number means that I'm hypothyroid not hyperthyroid which makes way more sense.

Some more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashimoto's_thyroiditis
http://www.medicinenet.com/hashimotos_thyroiditis/article.htm

GF Pancakes

Scarfed from

Fro those in the US Bisquick just came out with gluten free mix.  It makes "normal" tasting pancakes!  Yay!  Since I make them for one, I just mix up the wet ingredients and only use half putting the rest in the fridge for the next day.  Then I mix the half wet with half dry and *poof* pancakes for one.  Of course I usually mash a banana in to it.  These are the first non yucky pancakes I've had in the five years I've been GF.  This is very exciting!

Bipolar

Good God what is happening to me?  Friday I was in a great mood.  My cranky husband couldn't even put a dent in it.  I felt wonderful even if my body didn't.  I managed to grocery shop and make dinner.  I was on top of the world.  Today I crashed and burned hard.  I had a little tumble with depression.  What is it with the wild mood swings?  I can understand being a little moody but these are severe swings between extremes.  What is going on with my body?

I just read about all things thyroid and my blood number is slightly elevated only 0.5uU/mL above normal but my symptoms more closely match hypothyroidism rather than hyperthyroidism.  My body is so out of whack it isn't amusing any more and I'm just not understanding what in hell is going on.  Bizarre to say the least.