okay...
so I got two thyrogen shots back in April as part of the 1st anniversary "test" to see if there were any thyroid cells left... the test came back positive... there are cells left...
step two of that is another round of thyrogen shots (did I mention that these shots cost my insurance company $1,000 each!!) and then a week ago thursday I went to the hospital to the Nuclear Meds department -- and swallowed a capsule of radiated iodine...
This is to kill/show where the leftover cells are... it meant that there was radiation in my system... enough that I had to be in quarantine... not be around people, not handle my cats, not use regular silverware -- disposable everything... lots of rules about washing hands etc. and then washing out the sink after... etc. etc. etc. a week's worth of not-fun-ness.
I survived... (this helped) cheer me up...
and Monday I go in the morning for an uber-fun 90 minute full body scan... yayyy can't wait for that.
(man my blog entries are getting sarcastic!!!)
So in the meantime I'm enjoying what I'm coming to call "thyrogen brain" -- it could be similarly compared to what some women call "pregnancy brain" ... the cloudy-unable-to-put-thoughts-together-quickly-and-dam-it's-frustrating thing... I think I may have mentioned this before but when you go from being pretty intelligent and coherent and able to carry on conversations and plan something and even WRITE something... (you think I'm kidding?? go back through my blog entries.... you'll see a difference) ...it is terribly frustrating and makes you feel stupid and sad and angry and betrayed by your brain.
and it screws with your sleep schedule again too... just when you were about to be back in a somewhat normal (going to bed at 11:30 getting up at 8/8:30) routine... you're back to the going to bed at 2/2:30/3am getting up at 10:30/11/11:30am thing... which really sucks because you still feel tired pretty much all day...
(thus ends the health whinging hooray!!)
Posted by kristen at June 21, 2008 11:16 AM