Confirmed

So i got a phone call from the endocrinologist today and she confirmed that I have Graves' disease. She said that the specific antibody for Graves', TSI, was definitely positive in my latest blood test. She also said that my ultrasounds show nodules in my thyroid, but right now, it's too small to biopsy, so we'll wait and re-check in 6 months. If the nodules have gotten bigger, then she'll biopsy. She's hoping that this medication will prevent that or at least slow it down. She wants me to follow-up with oculoplastics regarding my eye. And I probably need to have the surgery soon because my eye is hitting my glasses at times and it is very uncomfortable all the time. Sometimes I even wake up at night because I'm tearing up and the eye hurts.

To add to my frustrations, our basement flooded Friday night/Sat when strong thunderstorms hit our area. We got 8 inches of rain in less than 24 hours and the electricity went out for several hours during the night. We got about a foot of water in our basement. Our pictures, shoes scrapbooks, journals and some books got wet and mostly ruined. Even my wedding gown got ruined. Our camping gear also got wet... Unfortunately, Frendell had to go out of town for his retreat and won't be home until Wednesday, so cleaning up will have to wait until he gets back. I've gone through several albums already and hope to finish the rest tomorrow. I hope I won't be too tired...

anyways, I will plug along as much as i can. I hope that things start to look up real soon..... at least it was cooler today that it's been.. but tomorrow, we're going up to the 90s again... that's way too hot for me :-(