Set backs, panic attacks, and learning to deal

[thtrelady]

This week has been one huge rollercoaster of emotion for me. I was so proud of myself earlier this week for sticking so strictly to the doctor imposed diet. I don't deal well with being told I can't have/do things and I was proud of doing things the right way. Even when I grumped and bitched, I didn't cheat

Comments

[pjvj]

{{{{{honey}}}}}}

Is this the last time you will have to do this?

[thtrelady]

Hopefully yes. Hopefully my behaving myself will enable the the radioactive iodine to do it's job and kill all remaining thyroid cells in my body. But I'll have to be watched for the rest of my life.

[poetyouknowit]

Don't look at is as isolation! Look at is as an opportunity to speed-read your favorite books, knit a scarf, or play hours worth of computer games!

I used to work in a sleep lab and some of the subjects couldn't leave their rooms for something like a 38-day sleep study. One room: no windows, clocks, news papers, computers, etc. We mostly got writers, artists, and musicians who worked on their craft while hanging out. And annoying lab techs taking your blood or samples or brainwave readings all the time. Now THAT would suck!

Good luck, I'm sorry this is the only medical solution! *hugs* Get well soon!

[kumorisubeta]

I think poetyouknowit has the right idea here... Want me to see if Mom can mail all the Nancy Drews we've collected? Orrrrr, you could totally take out the library the day before. Can you get the computer up there?

*hugs* This sucks, but you can get through it. And hopefully get some fun things accomplished while you're going through this.

[thtrelady]

*hugs poet & kumori* I'm going to move a bunch of books up there with me and I think Roger is planning on figuring out how to get the computer up there also.

[labrys6]

I'm so sorry for the disarray. I know only too well how the smallest change in something medical and already difficult can just be TOO much.

Think of your week in isolation as such a time has been for women thru time....a space for you alone, with yourself. A touch of something holy and special added to the medical bit might make it more bearable, and more healing as well.

I will be thinking of you next week!

[thtrelady]

Thanks! I'm going to need all the thoughts I can get. Hopefully we'll be able to get the computer to work up there so I won't be 100% isolated.