It's quiet...

... here in my little blog, or so it seems. Though nothing much happens in my life, or maybe I am just too busy/ bored not to blog. I don't know.

Regardless, stashy pictures!

These two cane like this and I am simply loving the combo (the scanner does not repeat the awesomeness) and therefore must use these two together in some project.

As you may have guessed I had a minor shopping spree at 1-2-3 Stitch!'s Clearance section and then got some luscious Caron silk to, ahem, justify the postages.

I have been stitching

And I have actually finished little something, but I have been way too tired (been busy at work, Mr. Wonderful is traveling (yes, again *grin*), hence I am not sleepin too well, and I haven't been well (again)) to update PD's website.

Damn, if I was right

Remember how I suspected back in 2008 that I suffer from hypothyroidism? And how it was diagnosed as depression? And how the medication helped?

Well, I suspect again that I was right as my symptoms continue and I have found out more about the condition...

1. It's hereditary and likelihood of having it increases with, for eample following: diabetes mellitus type II and hypothyroidism.

   Approximately every Finn has DM II in their family, and my mom has been diagnosed with hypothyroidism last year.

2. Setralin, the medication I was given:
   • lowers TSH levels (i.e. fools the tests) and

   • can cause hypothyroidism.

3. My symptom list is now 21 symptoms long, and consist of well known symptoms of hypothyroidism.

4. Cortisone lowers TSH levels. And who takes it daily? Yes, that would be me.

5. My TSH levels were checked last Christmas: 3,7 when the "legal limit" is 4.

   And you can suffer from hypothyroidism with completly normal TSH levels.

   Fun, isn't it?

Not to mention our little experiment after Christmas: my mom gave me two weeks worth of .025 mg synthetic thyroid hormone... Not long and not much, but my toe nails begun to grow again, after appr. 17 years of growing so and so - and I just felt more alive.

Today I made an appointment with an endocrinologist who is specialised on thyroid diagnoses without blindly trusting the lab tests (back in old days, before '70s or so, there were no tests for thyroid conditions and diagnoses were made solely based on symptoms - nowadays doctors mostly seems to hide behind lab tests and "normal" values (even everyone in their right mind should know that there are people who have abnormal levels of whatever)) and I am seeing him in June.

But enouh compkaining. I will make some more coffee and stitch for a while before heading to work for the evening.