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I’d give my pain level a 5.

I’d give my itchiness level a 3.

I’d give my freak-out level a 9.

I saw a doctor yesterday. She was nice. She ordered bloodwork. The blood lady was not nice. Okay, she was, really, but she took my blood and I hate that. Especially the needles part.

Anyway, the list of things my blood (that the bloody lady took from me!) is getting tested for includes things that freak me out. The list of things I do not want to have definitely include a thyroid condition or rheumatoid arthritis. Those things suck.

I would really like it if I didn’t have to wait until tomorrow for those results.

I hope I just have a weird version of the flu or something and I get better by some kind of magic. Or better yet, a bacteria of some kind that I can have fancy antibiotics for and be cured. I like the word cure. Not treat. Treating sucks. That kind of treating is not the same as the treats from trick or treating. It’s more like the tricks.

So I’m freaking out.

But I’ll know something tomorrow.

Maybe.

If not, then I’ll get fancy steroids tomorrow.

Which makes me even more nervous.

So screw that.

I’m freaking out.

I’d give your I-wish-I-didn’t-know-that level a 10.

1. AlCantHang says:

   December 14, 2006 at 12:37 pm

   Put my “Get-better-soon” level at a 10.

   Good luck with the results. Virtual fingers crossed.
2. Parallax says:

   December 14, 2006 at 2:50 pm

   Get better and keep us in the loop!
3. Laura says:

   December 15, 2006 at 9:21 am

   i hope it all comes out alright! but honestly a thyroid condition (having one myself) isn’t the end of the world. it stinks in the beginning, lots of tinkering with doses, lots of blood work, but it really doesn’t affect your daily life much in the end. if it’s hypo, (which it usually is) it’s just a pill once a day. if you do have a thyroid condition you can ask me all sorts of questions and i can tell you whatever you want to know. i hope you’re okay though!
4. dinane says:

   December 15, 2006 at 11:22 am

   Thanks, you guys. My new post should aleviate fears some.

   Laura – I kinda did know that about you. Actually, I almost talked to you about it because I was so scared. My mom has hypo-, and is on the one pill a day thing now, but I remember it sucking a lot for her when I was a kid. The fact that my mom’s side of the family carries both thyroid problems and RA makes me nervous. Actually, they carry cancer too, which is just fabulous.

   I am so fricking paranoid.
5. Laura says:

   December 15, 2006 at 4:57 pm

   it does stink sometimes, like when you think you’ve got it under control and then you start to feel crappy again, but it’s always fixable. and at the very least it’s got a name and a remedy and it’s not fatal or anything. :)
   my dad’s mom had RA and my dad died of cancer at 43 and my mom’s side of the family is full of fun thyroid stuff, so i can completely sympathasize on those accounts. and i am so paranoid too, so no worries. :) (except that’s almost an oxymoron of a statement…)
6. dinane says:

   December 18, 2006 at 8:41 am

   Hehe

   A little healthy paranoia is good for you. :)