Brain Fog

I keep forgetting to take my thyroid medication twice a day. I usually forget the second dose, sometimes I even forget the first dose. This is so not good.

My brain has been in a fog the last few days. It's been an unpleasant reminder of what I lived like for nine years before I found a doctor that would treat my thyroid disease the way it needed to be treated. My memory is shot, my head feels like I'm walking through a fog storm 1700 fog machine.

I even set an alarm twice a day to remind myself. The problem is if the alarm goes off and I'm not home, or in the middle of something, I forget to do it afterward.

I really need to get more disciplined.

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High School Senior

My eldest just finished her junior year. It's time to think about senior pictures, a varsity jacket, college applications, and everything else related to the last year of high school. Who aged me enough to have a senior in high school? When did that happen?

She is moving onto vet school, pre-vet first and then veterinary medicine. She and her boyfriend are talking about marriage after college (oh please, slow down). I'm googling colleges and vet schools; I'm not to google raleigh wedding photography yet.

*deep breath* for the upcoming senior year.

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Thyroid Expert?

There's a thyroid expert named Andrea Beaman I am wondering about. Has anybody heard of her? I've heard that she has a program that can get you off thyroid medication. True or false? Anybody know? I'm curious to see if that is impossible for anybody to do, especially if you've had thyroid disease for 13 years like me. Seems like those parts of my thyroid that weren't working would be dead after 13 years.

I am going to start detoxing I think. I am going to start back on iodine and cut out sugar and try to get back into health mode again.

I don't know if I ever typed on here about redecorating the house to put it up for sale. If I haven't, we are; if I have, we are still doing it. My daughter and I are going to tackle the bathroom as a mother/daughter project after this week. Sanding, painting, hanging - mask on my face to save my asthmatic lungs. I need to find 36" Drawer Slides too and find a leopard shower curtain for the shower, which won't go over well with the husband so I'm not telling him until I hang it. He considers it "his" bathroom but it really isn't. It's just a dingy bathroom that our girls won't use so I'm going to make it more girly. He'll find out about THAT when it's done. Ha Ha!

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Graduation Gifts

In a little over a year, our firstborn will graduate high school. What do you get the graduating senior? A laptop? Money for college tuition or books? Car? (Yeah, wishful thinking on her part.) Once she makes up her mind on where she is going to college will depend on what she needs I guess. Will she need stuff for her first dorm room or is she living at home? Will she be driving back and forth to college or living at college? So many decisions!

I can't believe my firstborn is almost an adult. I can't believe I am old enough to have a child who is almost an adult! HaHa!

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College Hunting Time

We have started college hunting for our firstborn. We are looking at colleges within driving distance as well as those that our daughter would have to live. She doesn't want to go away to college but we want her to look at all her options. Thinking about her actually moving away to college though...yikes!

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Home Search

I've been researching the real estate market for about the last two years, waiting to see what is available, prices, and how well our home would sell if we put it up for sale (and how fast). I found this app for a a real estate agent checklist but then found out it is actually for a real estate agent about new listings, listings sold, contracts and closings. That's not me. I'm just an individual who wants the best price for our home, to sell as fast as possible once we put it up with an agent, and the best house for our family that will (hopefully) be our last house we buy.  Maybe the realtor we find, when we finally are ready, will have this app!

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Preparing for Water Crisis

If a water disaster were to happen, as it did in West Virginia, would you be prepared? Should you be? Would you be left without life giving water for yourself, your children? How would you bathe? Brush your teeth? Flush the toilet?

This isn't conspiracy theory stuff. This actually happened. My husband was offered a job in that exact area but he turned it down years ago. Gotta say - I'm happy about that.

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Reducing Medical Debt

I go tomorrow to talk to my doctor about my thyroid lab and get my 90-day prescriptions. I don't know why doctors don't like to write 90-day prescriptions when the biggest manufacturer in this area, who my husband works for, offers insurance where that is their preference or else they charge ME more. I asked them a few months ago and I got the run around. Tomorrow, there will be no more run around. I get three months for the price of two if I do it the way our insurance company expects it done. Otherwise, I pay for the third month PLUS they charge me more per prescription. That's just not happening anymore or else I'm changing doctors. Save money. Save money. That is my mantra.  Every little bit helps, which the last few months has proven to me. We are almost out of medical debt.

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Medical Debt Decline

Financial debt goes along with medical issues it seems, at least for us it did the past few years. We're finally digging out of the medical bills and I can't wait until it's done. We are done to one bill left. What motivated me? Dave Ramsey's books did.

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When did that happen?

I realized the other day that in three months, we will have three teenagers in the house. When did that happen? When did I get old enough to have THREE teenagers?  That leaves my youngest, who will be nine in a few months. She still likes dolls and swing sets but for how long? I don't think we'll be looking for swing sets in williamsburg va if we don't get one soon. She's outgrowing everything! I just put three bags of clothes in the church donation bin that she's outgrown.

It seems like you blink and they've grown up!

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Goiter Bigger

Ugh, my goiter feels bigger and I've been so tired the past few days. Great. I'm due for more labs so I guess I'll find out one way or the other either way what is going on.

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