Today (22nd August) is Daffodil Day….a day that is all about raising funds to enable the Cancer Council to continue it’s research, provide patient support programs and run prevention programs across Australia. The daffodil represents hope…hope for a cancer free future. I love the yellow of the daffodil…it is such a cheerful colour, and a […]
Yesterday saw yet another appointment, at yet another hospital…this time for me! A few months ago, I suffered from chronic face pain…it was horrible, and no painkiller could touch it. After weeks of doctors appointments etc, I gave in and submitted myself to emergency at our local hospital. Thankfully, their concern that my cancer had […]
It has been one of those weeks….we had some not brilliant news..my husband needs minor surgery to fix a hernia..normally not a big issue but there are a few potential higher risks due to him having had a liver transplant…plus we were told that our eldest furkid has a liver issue which could be life […]
I have to make an admission….I don’t do the cooking in our household! But luckily, my husband does enjoy cooking….plus he also likes being in control of what we eat. Because since he had a liver transplant, and I had my own thyroid issues, he has been doing lots of research into what foods we […]
Its funny how houses can hold so many memories….but once things change, and people move on, suddenly it doesn’t feel like home anymore… Since leaving my parent’s home, I have lived in various places, in various suburbs…each felt like home for the time we were there, but then it came a time when we needed […]
I feel crap right now…although it’s a good day to be a bit miserable as the rain is pouring down outside… I woke up with some sort of weird muscle spasm across my shoulder and back making it hard to move, let alone breathe…and this was after a couple of days of headaches that made […]
If you haven’t read through Part One of this saga, click here to catch up on on the story so far! So I now had been diagnosed with having Hashimoto’s disease… I had the requested ultrasound done, and had no inkling that there was anything wrong until my next appointment…but instead of going on the […]
A few people have been asking about how I discovered that I had an inactive thyroid due to Hashimoto’s Disease….so I thought I would document my story, in the hope that it might help others going through a similar experience. Looking back now, it is clear that things started to go off the rails health […]