Clear as mud

One of the members (Peter Crane) of a thyroid cancer support group listserve I belong to posted an article in USA Today Thyroid radiation protections revisited. This is something I’ve been trying to figure out ever since I got my diagnosis and learned that RAI meant that I shouldn’t be near my children for at [...]

Strike that

New highlight of my day– Hila singing a made-up song while playing with her stuffed animals.  Two of them are dogs and while singing, she has one dog smell the other’s bottom.  LOL.  Kids are way better than laundry.

Catching up

I am just catching up to a mountain of laundry.  It has been weeks since my husband even looked in his underwear drawer to find clean undies.  The clothes have been haunting me.  I get them cycled through every week, but for the past few weeks they have stayed piled on both chairs in my [...]

Memorial Day

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.
Moina Michael

My sample personal profile reading from Astrology.com

My “present” from birthday alarm.com
How I approach life and how I appear to others
You are a natural diplomat, reasonable, tolerant, fair,
always willing to listen to varying viewpoints, and ready to see
the other side of an issue. Even if you strongly disagree with
someone, you will try to find points of similarity and agreement
rather than emphasizing the [...]

Kitchen remodel

To save money we decided to buy our kitchen cabinets and countertops at Ikea. It is much cheaper because we have to pick up the cabinets and assemble them ourselves. We also had to measure and design the kitchen ourselves. Here are some things we have learned in the process:
1. Measure 5 [...]

Solution to high gas prices–get idiots off the road

If there was somehow a bonehead test people would have to pass in order to drive a car, I believe there would be a lot fewer cars on the road. There are three people I can think of who I’d like to take off the road…
1. Landcruiser lady–When I was 17 or 18 [...]

Random

Countdown to radiation

I met with my Nuclear Medicine Dr. today to schedule my RAI. I will do a dosimetry study starting June 23 (Happy Birthday Miki) through the 27th, and the 27th is when I will get the treatment dose. I’ve been reading a lot on the thyca listserve about this process and everyone dreads [...]

levels of humanity

I watched Nova last night with BJay. It was titled “A Walk to Beautiful”. The story was about Ethiopian women who sought treatment for obstetrical fistula which happens in childbirth. Because women in rural villages are malnourished and are doing hard physical labor from the age of 2, they don’t grow to [...]