Home sweet home

We’re home. And I’m very grateful.

It’s been a helluva few days to get here, though.

Tuesday, we arrived at the airport very early so we had plenty of time. We waited for a while for the wheelchair, but once he arrived things moved pretty quickly and we gratefully made it through security without a lot of nonsense.

Then we were delayed. We were trapped in the airport for a very long time.

Once we got on the flight, everything was fine and we got in and jeremy, amazingly, was able to wield all our stuff.

We got home and went to bed, in our own bed, which was nice. Until about 3 am.

To be clear, I hate, HATE vomiting. But I woke up at 3 am to take my last codeine and not long after that felt sick to my stomach and vomited. Jeremy lovingly got up to take care of me cause that hurt. And sucked.

I took my new thyroid pill and managed to go back to sleep after a while. When I got up, I moved to couch and finally felt OK to eat breakfast. However as soon as I took more Tylenol, it happened again.

Ugh. I hate it. And at this point there are no painkillers in my body so I’m feeling every bit of soreness and discomfort. I basically spent the rest of the day on the couch napping and watching movies until the late afternoon when I finally felt brave enough to eat again to take a Tylenol and that stayed down as well as few bites of dinner.

Luckily, that was the end of it. Each day since has felt a little less rumbly in my tummy and I started eating fairly normal today.

Insult to injury indeed. Alas, I think I’m through the worst of it.

Our friends from Wisconsin got in late last night and are here helping out and so Jeremy can get a break from me. They will spend Christmas here which is very exciting.

In other news, we had an Endocrinologist appointment today to have a checkup with my local doctor.

1. The largest infected lymph mode in my neck was 4.5cm! This seems huge to me in my tiny neck.

2. It seems we still have some decisions to make because there are two methods to the radioactive iodine.

One in which they give you an extra drug that enhances your bodies’ ability to absorb the iodine and they can schedule it out in advance and you just stay on the hormone replacement throughout.

The other, more effective approach, is to taper me off the thyroid hormone replacement. This will likely make me feel terrible for a couple weeks. During this time they will be monitoring my bloodwork and that will tell them when I can start the iodine. This one is more difficult to schedule out and there isn’t conclusive evidence as to how much more effective it will be.

So, I had bloodwork today and she sent us some information and articles about it. We’ll review all of that info and then after the holiday, we’ll get the results and talk through the plan to come to an agreement.

I’m tired of making decisions! But we’ll take it all in and figure out what we think is best all together, which I appreciate. And frankly, both vomiting and making decisions are part of being alive, so I’ll be grateful for those too.

For now, I’m going to just have a very chill holiday eating fun food, sharing our new home with our friends and showing them some of the neat spots around Central Oregon!

Wishing you all a fantastic holiday weekend! We are so grateful for all the texts, cards, packages, etc we’ve received. We feel very abundant.