Monthly Archives: March 2020

03.05.20
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Life with my new necklace

I’ve been reading a couple thyroid related FB group posts for the last few months. Seems there are all kinds of people out there with different levels of thyroid disease and different fear triggers. Sometimes it’s hard to read the depressing stuff about a related condition or disease you also may have….so I quickly skimmed through them and only read things related to nodules, goiteres and biopsies.

I had my thyroid removed this morning around 9am. It was very large with a goiter and 4 nodules…two of them were an inch in size. After the surgery, the doctor had a consultation with “him” and called my thyroid massive. It’s gone now…in a lab somewhere waiting for a biopsy and I am sitting on the couch tonight with an ice pack on my neck and feeling gratitude.

If you are reading this because of the thyroid tag, let me share briefly about my recovery 15 hours later. Because my thyroid was soooo big, they sent me home to recover rather than an overnight Stay at the hospital. Among the complications an overnight in the hospital might be needed would be swelling in the throat area with the possible complication of swallowing or breathing…that DOES seem like a problem! It was explained to me this was not a concern in my case due to the size of the thyroid and the area it used to live in. I was way past loopy until about 12 hours after I was given the first medications for pain while in the outpatient pre surgery area. As it wore off, I did feel some very minor pain mostly when I swallow. Apparently the tube they Intubate with is larger than most due to sensors on it to aid the surgeon in avoiding nerves. Icing the neck has worked well for me. Interestingly, my surgeon glued my incision closed which will allows me to shower sooner.

But I’ll still be wearing my latest battle scar with pride. Everyone says it will heal and eventually not be visible but until then.

It’s pretty visible right now and after my first glance in the mirror I thought how am I going to cover that up…but it’s not something I need to cover up. It’s me, it’s another scar of life, I’m still here…I’m a survivor….I am grateful!

03.01.20
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The cure!.?.!

Thanks to my friend, Regina, who shared this incredible find with me.

Reading through the book, I found that menopause was handled much differently in 1924 than it is nearly 100 years later. Surprisingly normal menopause could occur anywhere from 35 to 60 years of age but normally was completed by 48.

Tonsillitis (also known as Quinsy) frequently included severe pain usually terminating by the bursting of the suppurated tonsils.

Burns…are you ready…if the skin is not broken, holding the burned part under HOT running water will help relieve the pain.

My father, who was born in 1916, had a rule that you did not drink anything while eating a meal. I never asked why…I just didn’t drink water with a meal assuming that perhaps water would fill you up so you wouldn’t consume enough food to sustain your energy until the next meal. Nope. According to the book. It was because of obesity.

“The cure for obesity…phytolacca…which is pokeweed … abstaining from bread, potatoes and other starchy food, and also abstaining from drinking water at meals.”

The back cover of the book says “experience has proven that prompt and satisfactory results can be attained by the use of Homeopathic Remedies”.

I looked up several of the given homeopathic cures and found many of them were classified in Wikipedia as known homeopathic cures and some were just classified as noxious weeds.

I’m so confused.