We are the thyroid zombies,

The walking dead,

The barely hanging on.

We hear our doctors tell us normal is between zero and forty-three,

But we are five-thousand and twenty three,

And will quickly be,

On a first name basis with our phlebotomist.

We take our pills in the day to keep us up,

And our pills at night to put us down,

And still yet other pills to fix the problems

The others pills brought on.

That person in…

I just received the new Minimed pump. It now asks stupid questions to remind me to do things I instinctively do because I have been pumping so long. After I prime the tubing, it asks me, "Do you see drops at the end of the tubing?"

I usually yell at it, "You think I would have stopped priming if I didn't?"

I wish I knew how to hack into its software and program it to ask more relevant and helpful questions. Maybe questions Stewart Smalley would have been proud of.

"Did you…

Today I hit a wall. A writing wall. It was probably because I spent the last seventy-two hours in front of a computer. I thought with all this time off I could accomplish great feats of writing, maybe even finish a book. But instead I have accomplished very little on the book front. I have left far too many status updates on Facebook and read far too many articles and books and blogs and theology (though I could never get too much theology.) I even read a, I think they call them, Paranormal…

What a completely different experience than yesterday. I woke up feeling hungover. I don't think my body handled the twelve hours of hyper that was my day yesterday. I was dragging all morning until I passed out for two hours. After that I felt a little more human. But the solitary confinement is starting to wear on me. I realized today the reason I love to have eight hours a day to write all alone is because I come home to an amazing family. Now that I can't hang out on the couch with the…

My day started at five am so that I could get one last meal in before six hours of fasting in preparation for my thyroid ablation today. I was back in bed by five fifteen after yet another bowl of oatmeal and plate of egg whites- some of the only foods I could find that are easy to prepare, somewhat appetizing, and on the low-iodine diet I've had to be on since the first of the year- but since I have been off the anti-thyroid meds for five days, there was no chance I'd be able to go back to…