Day 3 & counting!

Hi all! I figured that I should probably update you all as to where things are at in the testing game and what's going on! :)

I'm still on the "special diet", but only for two more days, so that's not bad. Plus, I lost four pounds this week while on it, so that's a plus, too! Ha! :)

But, Monday & Tuesday, I went to the Nuclear Medicine department at the hospital and I received an injection. Monday it was in my left arm and Tuesday it was in my right arm. It's called a thyrogen shot and it overrides the thyroid medicine I have to take, but I don't have to go through the whole process of stopping the medicine or going through the withdrawals that I usually experience when I'm off the medicine (hypothyroidism). When I went in on Monday, I said, "How, exactly, am I going to feel after having these shots?" To which she responded, "You will feel no different than you do now!" Wahoo! And, true to her word, I have felt NO side effects of this medicine and I feel "normal"!! Oh, Happy Day! :)

Then, this morning, I went in and took a little radioactive pill for the body scan that I will have done on Friday afternoon. So, really, it's been an easy go of things this week! Head over to the hospital at 7:30 AM, stay for roughly 15 or 20 minutes and head to work. I've been to work by nine each morning! Simple! :) Now, though, there's talk of a storm tomorrow and Friday, so I'm planning to just stay put in Cheyenne and not commute. I can't take the chance of getting stuck (let alone risk my life on bad roads!). :)

Tomorrow morning, now, I will head to the lab at the hospital and have some blood work done. Tomorrow is a big day. That blood work will tell me everything that I need to know. So, keep your fingers crossed for the next day or so!!! Please!! :o) I think that if I head in as soon as the lab opens (7 AM), I can get the results by the end of the day. I keep saying in my head, "Jen, it will be what it will be. Don't stress. Just go with the flow." After all, they say that you are what you repeat, so if the news is bad, hopefully spending all day repeating those words will help me to deal better with that bad news! But, maybe I won't even have to deal with any bad news!!! Oh, wouldn't that be just super-fantastic?!?! :o)

So, there's your update! As soon as I know the results of that bloodwork tomorrow, I will put up another post!! Until then...keep on keeping on!

Update: Ha! I just read my daily calendar this morning and here's what it says, "You can have a tiny problem, but if you stay focused on it, it will seem to get bigger and bigger. Don't magnify your problem; magnify your God. Step out of doubt and step into faith. Get out of that discouragement and come over into joy. Make a decision that you are going to live your life happily." I guess that I will NOT focus on "what could be" tomorrow and I will just have faith that things will be as they should be! :o)