Yep, I'm emitting radioactive Iodine-131 as I type, LOL. As some you may know, I have Graves' Disease (hyperthyroidism). After 4.5 years of medication, it has been getting worse, so as much as I have resisted it, I finally decided recently to undergo radio-iodine treatment (RI) in order to try and get it under control once and for all. Keep your fingers crossed for me :-)
Apart from my thyriod gland feeling slightly uncomfortable (like someone is pressing on it - an odd feeling), I'm fine. But because I'm radioactive, I've had to send my kids away for 5 days :-( Meep! I can't be within 2 metres of another adult for any more than about half an hour for the next few days either, so DH is with the two youngest girls (and the cat, who normally sleeps on my feet at night) at my in-laws, and my eldest girl is at my parents place - so it's just me, here all by myself!
Ah well, looks like I will be catching up on some reading tonight since these arrived this morning:
They look good, yeah?
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Oh Julie - fingers crossed that it works for you. (It does seem an extreme way to get some time to yourself though ;p )
Julie, hoping that this brings you relief (I have graves as well :(, so I will watch with great interest!)
Five days break without another human being around, oh that sounds like pure bliss to me right now.
The Tots are driving me nucking futs and The Teen has an interstate visitor for a week. I want some space!
Sorry, my sympathetic post for you has been a pity vent for me!
Have lots of fun reading and pottering around :)
fingers crossed for you Julie!
I'd be interested in hearing what you think of the food storage book once you're done. I'm in the process of looking for something that talks of old storage methods that don't rely on freezing and preferably not bottling.
Oh goodness! I have a visual image (even though I have never seen you :P) walking around emitting a green glow eg the simpsons
I love the look of that magazine on the left, will have to look it up :)
I hope everything works out well for you. Home alone for a week, what a blessing under the circumstances. I think you will have lots of time to catch up on your reading, but those two mags will only last you a day. At least there are thousands of sustainable blogs to read!
oh that treatment sounds partly torture and partly blessing.. I hope it works wonders.
Those books look great - can't wait to hear what you think of them!
Sounds almost like a blessing in disguise!! :)
Hope the treatment goes well. I also had a Simpsons/Mr Burns image of you floating around glowing haha.
I picked up backyard farmer the other day and devoured it over the next two nights haha. Now I need to back order the other two! The other one also looks interesting. Let me know if it is any good...I can never have enough books! :D
Hi Kez, thanks! Yes, it is a bit extreme, but you know how some mothers can get ;-)
Hi L, You so have my sympathy hun :-) I miss them all terribly but am glad they're gone as I feel pretty awful - had about an hour's sleep last night: raging insomnia, heart palpitations and hand tremors - the works! I can go back on my medication tomorrow thank goodness!
Hi Nikki, Thanks! Yes I'm looking at low-energy preservation techniques too and have just gotten hold of a book on fermentation today - will let you know what that is like too.
Hi Dee, LOL, I'm not really glowing, honest ;-)
Hi Gavin, thanks. You hae no idea what my reading pile looks like LOL, there's a LOT more where that same from! So much to learn and so little time...
Hi Kate and Felicity, thanks :-)
Oh Em, another book addict hey ;-) I have a "One in and one out" policy on books, otherwise they would take over the house... but I've whittled down my collection so much I am getting to the point where I *need* to keep them all as they are reference books! Yikes!
Cheers, Julie
Haha, I have already decided that when we build a home it will have to include a nice big library...either that or the (future) kids will have to share a room so I can have one of the rooms for my books! BTW, added a shelfari thing to my new blog so you can see what I have, although not everything is up yet... :D
Hello... I've just started to read your blog. Love your amount of energy and all that you stand for. Keep it up. I have Hypothyroidism. It really gets in my way. Want to trade half your thyroid for half of mine? Maybe we can both meet in the middle and even things out. I'd love to have half the energy that you seem to have in order to do all the things I'd love to do. Hang in there...hope it works. Keep up with great blog.
Also a mother of two... Laurie =)
ooh i know what you mean about all those books, I should have a one in one out policy too! To make matters worse I work in the book industry where I get a 50% discount *eep*
you'd think that'd be great but I'm 24 and already have four book shelves full so far and more books without homes haha! Half my wages are paid in books lol :)
I have the 'how to store your garden produce' book, bought it a few weeks ago and am looking forward to getting time to look at it after I read the other 10 that are stacked up to read before it!
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