This will probably be my last blog post for a while and the reason is a good one. I've been on the thyroxin for 28 days (threw the first empty packets away this morning) and there have been no noticeable side-effects. Or there might have been, but my ongoing mental and physical heath issues make it hard to tell. I've had a couple of very low moments and angry moments, and I've been very tired. Today I intended to have a little lie-in and woke up at 1.30! But there has been so much else going on I could put the blips down to that as much as the medication.
Maybe it's more accurate to say that any side-effects I might have had have been manageable.
Last week's appointments went as well as could be expected. Two mornings of talking things through that left me feeling mentally exhausted. I'm just waiting for my 3 month check-up at the Christie and how that goes will probably be my next blog.
In the meantime I have the diabetic clinic on Friday - business as usual, or it may be "Interesting Times" as in the Chinese curse.
I had my last appointment with my doctor of 14 years - the brilliant Dr Davies - the week before I got my diagnosis for cancer. He left (I think) to manage Bolton, Bury and Preston. It was promotion and so well-deserved, but I wish he'd been around. Nothing that he could have done as diabetes is his specialism, not cancer, but I still would have felt safer if he'd been there in the background. It was almost as if him leaving was the the cue for things to go wrong. The next week I was supposed to have a mental health assessment, but I ended up in the MRI with a kidney infection instead, and the week after that it was my mum in hospital. The diabetic nurse was supposed to be at one of my appointments prior to surgery and visit me when I was admitted but in the end there was nil input or support from the team.
I'm not sure if the rest of them are even aware that I've had cancer, so while I'm getting used to the new doctor, whoever they are, and whatever they throw at me, I can shock them with that little nugget of info. Must remember to ask them about getting a new insulin pen as well. The one I have costs £40+ on Amazon, so if I can get it for free from them so much the better.
Dr Rob Davies, more like a friend than a doctor, and very much missed.
Anyway, signing off for now. I'll post the "how to survive the diet" list as promised in a bit, but other than that, see you in 3 months!
