Almost normal again

[annathepiper]

Early this morning I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep, a prospect which sat ill with me thanks to this year's earlier history with insomnia, but fortunately it wasn't too bad. I decided to get up and play Nethack rather than toss and turn and disturb solarbird, which was a pretty decent way to spend the time; I didn't get too sleepy by the time it was time to go and get my stitches out.

Which went pretty much excellently, as expected, and can be summarized in three little noises: snip, snip, yoink. Dr. Stickney joked that next year she'd have to remove earwax or something, since I don't have a thyroid anymore, and then sent me off to the lab so they could do yet another blood draw and see how many calcium is holding up.

Then I came home and rested a bit, and found that some more of the long-anticipated September rent had arrived in the mail. Dara, who'd dropped me off and headed down to MurkSouth to sign papers with one of the new tenants, came back with more new rent. So since Dara's busy getting ready for NASFiC this afternoon, I took a chance on having enough energy to make it down to LFP on my own to deposit the checks and have them safely taken care of before tomorrow.

I made it without any problems, though I needed to get Gatorade for the walk back and take a bit of a rest partway there. I'm good with that.

Now for a bit of rest now that I'm home.

EDIT 3:56pm: Oh yeah, the Polyclinic just called and said that my calcium levels are looking great, which tells them that my parathyroids are functioning, so I can punt back down to my usual single daily calcium supplement. Yay! This means I can just take my regular vitamins now and my Synthroid, since I'm out of Keflex at this point and (hopefully) shouldn't need the Percocet anymore either.

Tuesday miles: 1.1
Wednesday miles: 2.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 325.1
Miles to Rivendell: 132.9

Comments

[firni.livejournal.com]

WOOHOO on the edit part!

[annathepiper]

In-DEED.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Woot! Happiness is progress on the road to recovery.

One is curious, you taking anything supplement-wise other than the regular One-A-Day's and your Ca? And if I can be really snoopy, what're they dosing you at on the T4?

Comparing notes...

[annathepiper]

My usual vitamins are a multivitamin, a calcium, a Vitamin C, and a Vitamin E every other day.

I'm currently at .05mg on the Synthroid. I've got an appointment on the 7th with my endoc to see if we're going to stick with that dosage or what.

[(Anonymous)]

Way cool. Happy rest-of-your-recovery! :-)

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Oops, that was me.

[annathepiper]

Thanks. :)

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

Good deal! Glad you're recovering well!
Cathy

[annathepiper]

Thanks! So am I!

I realized this morning that my singing voice hasn't taken nearly the same hit it did last time, either. I still have most of my range, based on my tentative testing, though I have not given it a proper Belt Out a Great Big Sea Ditty at the Top of My Lungs test yet. ;)