First of all, no I’m not leaving this site, this isn’t another goodbye topic.
I just got back from my hometown from having a pre-operation physical for a surgery I was supposed to get, and my doctor just called back today.....After running tests on some of my blood, he came to the following conclusion-
I’ve got Grave’s disease...
For those of you who don’t know, Grave’s disease is a condition where your thyroid gland swells and produces too much thyroid hormone, leading to nervousness, weakness and excessive fatigue, insomnia, susceptibility to heat, *clears throat* diarrhea, loss of weight, and often bulging of the eyes.
It happens because the antibodies of the immune system attack certain molecular sensors of the thyroid gland, stimulating the gland to produce too much hormone.
I first believed I had this when I read the symtoms in my biology book earlier this year, because I was already experiancing several of the symtoms mentioned above.
The good news is that its treatable, so I’ll have to go thru several radiation treatments in order to kill off part of the thyroid, then take pills for several monthes or years.
So...you can only imagine my disappointment to finding this out...I could use some encouragement......I just...am so very tired of shit like this happening to me, if not for the knowledge of what would happen to me for doing such, I’d almost be suicidal, but I won’t sink that low....
Waiting for the treatment period...my dad’s on the phone right now looking for a doctor in Lubbock who can maybe treat this so we won’t have to drive for 6 hours to go see my other physician.
I have the same feeling about that, the height of it anyway, but I’d rather ride the most makes-you-wanna-throw-up coaster in the country right now that have to play guinea pig for a nuclear rad scanner....
I’ll be back on later, I’m gonna go do some TS for a while, if you’ll excuse me.
And btw, RS. I take back all that demeaning stuff I said about you back on that other battle forum. I was acting like a dick and I know it...
Kane I don’t really know u all that much but I thought I’d say something .
Sorry to hear that news .. but remember to always look on the positive side of things . Atleast theres treatment for the disease ! It could be much , much worse .
Life has ups and downs , but for the most part you are very lucky that there is treatment !! Keep ur chin up .. theres people out there much worse than yourself .
--- Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out alive.
I have the same feeling about that, the height of it anyway, but I’d rather ride the most makes-you-wanna-throw-up coaster in the country right now that have to play guinea pig for a nuclear rad scanner....
I’ll be back on later, I’m gonna go do some TS for a while, if you’ll excuse me.
And btw, RS. I take back all that demeaning stuff I said about you back on that other battle forum. I was acting like a dick and I know it...
Ok...Be back later.
You know Inever took those stuff seriously.
And the roller coaster, I don’t throw up, I’m just freaked out on the first drop.
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kev360 wrote:
98supra wrote:
Kev, Why do u want me 2 be gay?
because i want to bend you over and shoot chocolate gew in your asshole.
No, they use radiation to kill part of the thyroid so that it can’t produce as much hormone, thus lowering the levels of overproduction, so I won’t tremble so much and hopefully won’t have as many side effects to contend with...
So we’ll just have to see how this plays out.
I thank you all for your time and concern, I’ll pray for you, and I hope you’ll do the same for me.
I’ll be back...my dad needs help with finding an endochronologist to help us out.
Take care Kane
and know that there are people who understand, to an extent, what you’re going through
my MS attack is slowly slowly improving, but is far from over. Just remember that the bad things in life may not automatically mean you’ll get the good things in life, but I have found that the drive to beat conditions like ours (both MS and Graves are autoimmune conditions where our own system attack us from within) give us the drive to achieve so much more than most people.
Find your outlet.
Whether it be art or cars, computers whatever you find to be your passion when things are tough. And use this set back as a catapult to achieve.
If not for my art, my philosophies and my invention ideas, I would sit in a corner rocking back and forth every day
But hang in there, you aren’t alone
James R
--- “close your bodily eye so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye” “The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, but also what he sees in himself” ~Caspar David Friedrich~
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James R Leclair - how have you been doing ?? And do you have anywhere where your artwork is posted on the Internet , I’d be interested to look . I love art !
Kay take care people .
--- Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out alive.
Not! Actually, I have to jump on a plane at 6 in the morning to fly back down to my hometown to get another damned doctor check-up...some test on Friday...
Anyway, I can stay up late tonight to post on here and such, but if for some reason I can’t, I appreciate everyone’s concern, pray for me...and hope that the doctors don’t screw up....
Kane- wrote:
Damn! More bad news- I’ve got only a day to live!
Not! Actually, I have to jump on a plane at 6 in the morning to fly back down to my hometown to get another damned doctor check-up...some test on Friday...
Anyway, I can stay up late tonight to post on here and such, but if for some reason I can’t, I appreciate everyone’s concern, pray for me...and hope that the doctors don’t screw up....
That’s too easy to wake up at six, I wake up at 5
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kev360 wrote:
98supra wrote:
Kev, Why do u want me 2 be gay?
because i want to bend you over and shoot chocolate gew in your asshole.
Unfortunatly I’m no preacher nor of any sorts as of that type of stuff so I can’t sound as, sympathetic heresay as everyone else is, but trust me I still pray for you.
I don’t wish to sound pathetic or lazy because I’m far from both, I concern myself with all my friends whether they be close ones or just 'internet buddies'
man that sucks Kane... yeah hope you get better... good luck with the pills and radiation... and you wake up at 5AM everyday... wtf... I would die if I did that...
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fuckyfuckerfuckingmcfuckfuck69 wrote:
Someone with a comment that has thought to it? Blasphemy!
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