Life

Life isn't the breathes we take but the moments that take our breathe away!!

I have had many of these moments the last few days.
Hope has learned to climb up on the kitchen chairs and then on to the table. I have found her sitting on it, crawling across it and standing on it.
She now walks up the stairs hanging to the bars, which isn't to scary.  The walking down them is, however. If she didn't stop to play it wouldn't be so bad.

Braden has been driving me places. He isn't to bad but there are those moments that I hold my breathe and wish I had a brake on my side of the car.

Feeling skeptical

Yes, I am feeling a little skeptical today.  How can you have all of the symptoms for a disease, but not have it?
Yesterday at the Endocrinologists, the doctor gave me a paper on Hashimoto's Thyroiditis.( I'll post what this is at the bottom of the post.) And told me that she was going to have me tested for this because I have ALL of the symptoms.  She felt pretty sure that I had it.  But the lab work came back negative.  Loren's response was,"did they do the test right".
Other lab results came back normal except for Thyroid levels are now too high. So now they have decreased my med's.  Also, she said that my iron level is on the low end of normal and that I should take over the counter iron pills.  I have another appointment scheduled for 6 weeks to do more test and see how I am doing then.
I don't like to complain but I wish that I didn't feel so yucky.

Hashimoto's thyroiditis is a condition caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland. It is an autoimmune disease, which means that the body inappropriately attacks the thyroid gland--as if it was foreign tissue. The underlying cause of the autoimmune process still is unknown. Hashimoto's thyroiditis tends to occur in families.
These are the symptoms.....

• Fatigue
  Depression
• Modest weight gain
• Cold intolerance
• Excessive sleepiness
• Dry, coarse hair
• Constipation
• Dry skin
• Muscle cramps
• Decreased concentration
• Vague aches and pains
• thinning of hair and nails

Doctors and more doctors

My thyroid has been doing horrible things to me lately.  My ENT did blood work and increased my med's before Christmas.  I felt better for awhile and then I started getting other symptoms-like my hair falling out by the handfuls, always feel worn out, and the list goes on.  So the ENT sent me to an Endocrinologist, who is testing for all kinds of things.  I should have results in 2 days, or less.  I hope that they can figure out what is going on, so I can feel normal again.

The second day back to school, proved to be better than the first for all of the children.
Yesterday, Parker cried because he didn't want to go back.  Loren drove Braden to school because he thought that he had missed the bus. Turns out he was early, so no one was there.  Paige and Zach's bus showed up 30 minutes late.  They got to school on time because we have wonderful neighbors that picked them up and took them.  Ethan didn't complain but I could tell that he wasn't excited about it.
It is hard getting back into the whole get up early routine after sleeping in and going to bed late for 2 weeks.

It has been very cold here for the past few days.  The doors were frozen on the Excursion when I went to drive the 2 youngest boys to school, yesterday.  We got the front door opened and we all climbed in.  It was hard to climb into the back to get Hope in her car seat.  It still wouldn't open when we got home.  Today, the doors were frozen again.  Thankfully it had warmed up enough by 1 p.m. that the doors opened when I had to head to the doctors.  I love seeing the sun.  I hope it shows up more often.