Monday = Massage!

i asked Master if we could make Mondays massage day. How could He possibly say no? i have a massage table, we like touching each other. i feel it will be a good way to start off the week. i'm looking forward to my turn on the table tonight. Master and i worked on each others backs and necks all weekend, we're both feeling pretty sore from pummeling each other in a therapeutic way. But tonight, i think tonight is going to be less therapeutic and more fabulous!

Blargh! (or: in which i determine my lunch bag is vomit proof!)

Yeah... ok. So Friday should have been excellent. No boss = me in charge = we leave as soon as we've finished work for the day. Which during the summer is early. Unfortunately, i woke up with a little headache, which turned in to a migraine (but i don't get migraines!). By the time i left work, i was practically delirious. i had to stop twice to spill my guts. The second time, i was less than 2 miles from home. As i'm puking my guts out in to my lunch bag on the side of the road - Master drives by. Singing, drumming on His steering wheel. i weakly wave "hey!" He keeps on going...... He didn't see me! Arrgh! or was that blargh? Sigh.

Work stuff

i've been so swamped with work issues, trying to keep that pharmaceutical part of our business going. Big responsibility for me to handle. i both love and hate it. Love the challenge, hate the blasted work load. Anyway, today i had to look up some new items for a different client. i found this and almost pee'd myself. Yes, i need a nap people! Really!


Is it dangerous to trespass here because there are GIANTS?!!!

Glad Tidings!

Whoo Hooo!
i got a call from my Endocrinologist a little while ago - my biopsy is NEGATIVE! Wheeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In other words, my nodules are the "normal" nodules that a person with Hashimoto's thyroiditis. So, yeah, i have an autoimmune disease that's affecting my thyroid but i've know that all along. (most people who have ITP also have some other autoimmune disease)

Thanks to all who've been checking up on Master and i in the past week! i'm now positive that all those good thoughts and prayers had an effect! *grin*

The Biopsy

OK, so i've been home all day now.... Biopsy went really well. i guess. Ummm - really, i think they should have warned me they were going to light an elephant on fire and cram it through me neck and leave bits of it behind to feel annoying all day. OK, not really a flaming elephant, i'm sure they used standard medical syringes but it sure feels like they used elephants or at least a sword on me.

Oh, the other thing they neglected to say was that they weren't just jabbing me one time. Twice? Nope. Surely, no more than 3 times, right? HA! Four times! The good part was they have a pathologist on hand to make sure the samples are large enough, so i don't get a call in a few days that they need another go around.

Lidocaine is administered to numb out the skin. That however does NOTHING to aleviate the feeling that some one is digging around inside your throat. While pressing down with the ultrasound wand at the same time. Ick.

i feel hoarse. Talking hurts. Swallowing hurts. Sneezing? Let's not go there. So, i stayed home and fiddled with making a steampunk ipod speaker thingy. Nothing like taking your mind off your throat/neck pain by using power tools and really cool sculpture epoxy. Between that and taking a few naps on the couch with the canine dynaic duo and letting ice cream melt in my mouth and slowly trickle down my throat, i've had a very productive day. (the ice cream thing sounds like it might be hot to watch. It's not. Or at least, not hot right now.) Sigh.

Now we play the waiting game until next week. In the mean time - It's almost time for TES Fest! :-) i hope i feel perkier soon.

the nodule

OK, so it's biopsy eve! Whoo hooo! Um, yeah..... Tomorrow is, believe it or not, the 6th anniversary of my first hospitalization, when i was diagnosed with ITP.

i seem to have an affinity for having health issues diagnosed on long 4th of July weekends.

To say i'm *totally* unconcerned would be a lie. However, i'm not scared. Really, i'm not. i'm actually more worried that i won't be able to lay there, flat on my back for a half an hour while there's a needle jabbing around in my neck. Yes, really - a half an hour.

i'm making Master bring a lollipop for me to have afterwards and also some Hello Kitty! band-aids to put on my neck. (because the stinky bandages they will give me at the Dr's office will do *nothing* to relieve discomfort. Where as, Hello Kitty! will.)

Thanks to everyone for reaching out to Master and i and sending good thoughts my way. Updates will follow as soon as we know anything.

For your viewing pleasure, a picture of my nodule! (so intimate....)