Doctor cleared me from boot-wearing yesterday: the toe is finally healed!
I wore the same sandals on both feet today and felt short! It was awesome not having to stump around campus in that thing.
The toe still feels a little "crunchy" and the doctor says that's normal. I still feel like I have to have an ice pack with me and my 20-minute timer whenever I sit on the couch. That will wear off eventually.
Now to try to dig out from the pile of grading I've got myself into...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Sunday, August 25, 2019
checking in
Since I'm on a new dose of my thyroid meds, I'm going to make an effort to check in more frequently so I can keep track of how I'm handling it.
So far, so good. In fact, the beginning of this school year is almost suspiciously smooth, with no major problems or headaches or seemingly intractable problems. Maybe it's because this is my tenth (!!!) year teaching and I've finally chilled out, but I don't have that sort-of-an-itch feeling that there are things that are just waiting to explode.
Which is not to say that those things aren't there (we're having a meeting to review IEPs for our students this Tuesday), but so far, so good.
I'm seeing my doctor regarding my broken toe tomorrow, and hope that I can finally stop taping, and wearing the boot, etc. We'll see. It's less than ideal timing with respect to my dose change, but I also started a bone-growth-promoting supplement the last couple of weeks to see if it helps. Here's hoping.
Without getting too graphic, I had some kinds of an intestinal bug for about a week that finally seems to have resolved. I was thinking it was a side-effect of the bone-growth supplement, but I haven't stopped that and everything has finally settled down anyway. It was unpleasant but didn't get in the way of teaching, so it could've been worse!
So far no signs of fatigue or brain fog, and I'm definitely feeling calmer, less tightly-wound. I don't think I had any palpitations this week, whereas normally I would feel my heart going crazy at least two or three times a week. It's really too soon to tell, though, since it has only been a week. I'm going for my blood test in mid-October and have even already scheduled it. I'm trying to stay on top of things, with fair-to-middling success so far (she says, eyeing the huge stack of projects left to be graded!)
So far, so good. In fact, the beginning of this school year is almost suspiciously smooth, with no major problems or headaches or seemingly intractable problems. Maybe it's because this is my tenth (!!!) year teaching and I've finally chilled out, but I don't have that sort-of-an-itch feeling that there are things that are just waiting to explode.
Which is not to say that those things aren't there (we're having a meeting to review IEPs for our students this Tuesday), but so far, so good.
I'm seeing my doctor regarding my broken toe tomorrow, and hope that I can finally stop taping, and wearing the boot, etc. We'll see. It's less than ideal timing with respect to my dose change, but I also started a bone-growth-promoting supplement the last couple of weeks to see if it helps. Here's hoping.
Without getting too graphic, I had some kinds of an intestinal bug for about a week that finally seems to have resolved. I was thinking it was a side-effect of the bone-growth supplement, but I haven't stopped that and everything has finally settled down anyway. It was unpleasant but didn't get in the way of teaching, so it could've been worse!
So far no signs of fatigue or brain fog, and I'm definitely feeling calmer, less tightly-wound. I don't think I had any palpitations this week, whereas normally I would feel my heart going crazy at least two or three times a week. It's really too soon to tell, though, since it has only been a week. I'm going for my blood test in mid-October and have even already scheduled it. I'm trying to stay on top of things, with fair-to-middling success so far (she says, eyeing the huge stack of projects left to be graded!)
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
new dose, day 1
For about 15 years now I've been on the same level of thyroid medication. After my last (exhaustive) round of tests, my new doctor has declared me "disease free" which is very nice (I don't really buy it, but whatever, the effect is the same) and decided to lower my daily thyroid meds from 137 mcg/day to 125 mcg/day. I dimly recall being on a lower dose before my cancer diagnosis, but that was all so very long ago...
Anyway, I have some trepidations about this. I know my dose is high, it gets flagged as high every time I have blood work done. But I feel good. This is "normal" for me now. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about adapting to a new normal, not when the school year has just begun.
That's going just fine, except for me wearing THE BOOT at school because that damned pinkie toe is still not healed. I actually bought a new supplement designed to promote bone growth and I'm now putting up my foot in class to try to get it to actually heal. It has been more than 2 months now! I would like this process to be over.
Lots of stuff happened that I did not write about, as usual, now. I accept that is the way things are for the present and forseeable future. Overall things are just fine and I have every reason to expect they will stay that way!
Anyway, I have some trepidations about this. I know my dose is high, it gets flagged as high every time I have blood work done. But I feel good. This is "normal" for me now. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about adapting to a new normal, not when the school year has just begun.
That's going just fine, except for me wearing THE BOOT at school because that damned pinkie toe is still not healed. I actually bought a new supplement designed to promote bone growth and I'm now putting up my foot in class to try to get it to actually heal. It has been more than 2 months now! I would like this process to be over.
Lots of stuff happened that I did not write about, as usual, now. I accept that is the way things are for the present and forseeable future. Overall things are just fine and I have every reason to expect they will stay that way!
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