EKG & chest xray

This week was a week in the hospital again. I had to get some blood work done to check my thyroid level and white count level and get titers for my HEP B levels. I hope that I still have the antibodies so I only have to get a booster shot, rather than get the whole series again. I also had to get a chest x-ray and EKG. Today I got a call from the doctor about my thyroid level. Woo-hoo!!!! Normal as of today!!! So, she will cut down to 5mg and recheck the thyroid level again in a month to make sure that it's staying at normal. Unfortunately for me, my left eye lid has been retracting again and it feels very dry and tears up alot. It's also difficult to keep my hard contacts in and whenever I close my eyes, if feels like it will come off. The endocrinologist told me that unfortunately there's nothing we can do about the eye disease; the antibodies have a mind of their own and has taken it's own course. I hope and pray that it will stabilize soon so hopefully I won't have to have surgery again soon. I haven't heard yet about the EKG and chest x-ray, so I'm thinking all's well there, otherwise I'm sure I'd have heard by now.


Life has been steadily getting busy. I have finally finished packing the 3 additional boxes we need to send ASAP to Mindanao. Please pray with us that they get there by the end of the year. I was hoping to be able to buy some chocolates on sale this coming Monday to put in the boxes, after halloween sales. We'll see....but the boxes will be sent on Tuesday for sure. It has gotten colder here as well and the first part of this week, it was cloudy, windy and sometimes rainy... we have had a windstorm go through several times. Bbbrrrrr.... winter is just around the corner... leaves have mostly fallen down.... great time to bake cookies and make soup. So, I'm baking vegan chocolate chip raisin walnut cookies. I can't seem to get the sweetner level quite right. I used blue agave today and I think it's too sweet.... I'll make some tea and have some fresh-baked cookies... yummy.. come on over and keep me company :-)  have a great week-end!!!