Thyroid update

I just got back from having a consultation with my surgeon about my thyroid, and that went fairly well. Since it was just a consultation there wasn't anything to really be scary--and indeed, much of what she had to say was information I knew already, from what my usual doctor had told me about the biopsy results from Swedish. The new information was this surgeon telling me about the specifics of how she performs these things, what the risk factors are, and what's actually involved with me showing up for the procedure and in the days after.

Short form of the story, though, is I go in for surgery on August 3rd. That's in another two and a half weeks. Goody!

( The longer form of the story, and lots of medical details... )

Testing new Semagic client...

Oooh look, nifty new ability to actually use mood icons with custom text in this client! And a little thingie at the bottom to show you what user picture you're currently set to be using... and a few new bells and whistles. I wonder if the bug I'd noticed with the redraw of the client window if you accidentally hit "Post entry" twice has been fixed.

And just because I can, let me also take this opportunity to test out the "Ripped jeans and rock & roll hair" Alan icon that divagypsy gave me! Which, I must admit, she actually did a few weeks ago, but well hey, any excuse to post a swoon about The Doyle is a good one. ;)