This afternoon’s snack is 2 bananas, cacao powder, maca powder, goji berries, and agave nectar blended up with some cacao nibs tossed in at the end for crunch. Seriously, this is one dee-licious smoothie.
If only I’d been more like this cat, I might not be sick today.
via icanhascheezburger.com
Shanghai while sick, days 2 and 3
This has been an odd vacation: I’ve been struggling with still being sick (I came down with a virus infection less than a week before we left) and with having no energy due to weirdness with the timing of taking
Home!
The hospital discharged me early yesterday evening. Karsten has had his hands full ever since. Keep him in your thoughts. 🙂
I am a major pain in the neck
My neck and throat feel all puffy and swollen today, for some reason, even though they don’t really look any different. Still, I keep making jokes to Karsten about it, like asking while he drives if my neck is blocking
Now I’ve done it.
Well, I just scheduled my thyroidectomy. October 2nd, 8 AM. I have to be there by 6:30, apparently. The nurse told me it’s “at least” a three-hour procedure. But I guess I’ll be knocked out so I probably won’t care
The definition of summer cool
is a Blue Coast veggie burrito followed by a blueberry chocolate chip paleta. I’d be supremely relaxed right now if 1) I didn’t have so much crap to do, and 2) I hadn’t eaten quite so much of said food.
Thyroid shmyroid
I guess I haven’t mentioned that I found out that I don’t have cancer. I know I never really posted that it was a possibility, but what with the thyroid nodules and all, there was indeed a chance. But the
Now they tell me!
Did you know that there are substances called “goitrogens” which can inhibit the production of thyroid hormone and, the theory goes, contribute to the enlargement of the thyroid? Maybe you’d heard of this, but it’s news to me. And what’s
So the doctor tells me…
I may have to have my thyroid removed. More tests to do, but that’s the likely upshot. I guess IÂ better enjoy my thyroid while I can. Alas, dear thyroid, I hardly knew ye.