Getting back into the swing of things...

It's been a while - too long really - since I've posted anything here.  I'm going to have to shift the blame for that to someone other than myself.  Why would I want to blame myself?  Silly thought, that.  Anyway, it's probably a combination of things that has kept me from getting back to this blog.  First and foremost would be my new boyfriend.  It's been a little over a month since we started dating and I couldn't be happier.  I think he put it best the other day...when you're single, you get to a point where you're content and happy so it's easy to forget how much happier you can be if there's someone there to share things with.  I'd had my eye out for a good guy to date, but things just happened so naturally with this guy that it really didn't take any effort to go from single and doing our own things to intermingling our friends, activities, lives, etc.  It always "happens when you're not looking," right?

I've also had some not so great things going on lately - namely health issues.  It's nothing life threatening, but it will affect my life for sure.  I've known for a while that I had an unusually elevated heart rate.  120 bpm is pretty normal for me.  I also have trembling hands from time to time.  I was keenly aware of how NOT normal that was when one of my friends who has Parkinson's commented on my shaking hands.  Not a great sign, hmm?  So at the urging of both my mother and boyfriend I decided to get myself checked out.  A blood test later and I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism - and a pretty severe case at that.  The doctor put me on a couple different meds for it...a beta blocker to slow my heart, and another one to work to calm my thyroid down.  Unfortunately, my body had a really bad reaction to the thyroid medication - my glands in my neck almost immediately (about 90 minutes later) swelled up to the size of limes, my fever spiked to 101.5 at the height of it, and I felt AWFUL!  By the next morning, I still wasn't better and felt awful so I spent 5+ hours in the ER trying to figure out what was wrong.  A CAT scan, chest x-rays, cultures, and blood draws (yes, multiple) later I was diagnosed with tonsillitis. 

The ER doc claims it was unrelated to the drug...I find that hard to believe since it started to go away by itself before the antibiotics were even in me.  There's no way it was "coincidence" like he claims!  So, what to do now?  I don't doubt my diagnosis...the thyroid issues run in my family and a blood test is pretty accurate...but I also don't really care for the doc that gave me the diagnosis.  So, I'm in the process of getting scheduled with an endocrinologist soon to see if I can't find some meds that will work better for me.  In the meantime, I'm just taking the beta blocker for my heart and staying away from the pills that gave me such a terrible reaction.  Fingers crossed that I never have to go through that again!!!

So that's pretty much it.  Now that I'm feeling a bit better I have the always fun task of cleaning house ahead of me today.  Thanks for reading and enjoy your Labor Day!