‘Flying With Broken Wings’ Archives
Flying With Broken Wings: Butterflies and Phoenixes
I first stumbled across Dear Thyroid on New Year’s Eve of 2009 when I was reading Mary Shomon’s www.thyroid.about.com website and this website has undoubtedly been the dawn of a new [Read] | 25 responses.
Flying With Broken Wings: Difficult Diagnoses, Dimwit Doctors and Tricky Treatment
One of the most popular topics on the Dear Thyroid message boards seems to be the struggle to get proper diagnosis and treatment. In my case, I had struggled with weight gain and [Read] | 60 responses.
Flying With Broken Wings: In Sickness and in Health I said I don’t
It seems most people I know, myself included, don’t enjoy being alone, so the natural instinct is to find a partner and how do you do this? You play the dating game. When you’re [Read] | 26 responses.
Flying with Broken Wings: Brightening Up Your Thyroid’s SAD Day
(Written by Sarah Downing, Editor, "Flying with Broken Wings", Dear Thyroid) In my mid-twenties, or perhaps even before then, I began to feel the urge to hibernate every winter. It [Read] | 14 responses.
Flying With Broken Wings Help, I’m turning into a man!
(Written by Sarah Downing, Editor, Flying With Broken Wings, Dear Thyroid) It all started at the age of 24 with a mean comment from my ex-boyfriend M, one of the reasons why he is [Read] | 28 responses.
Flying With Broken Wings: Making The Most Of Life With Chronic Illness
(Flying with Broken Wings, Written by Sarah Downing) When we’re first confronted with that dreadful realization that we have been diagnosed with a chronic illness and that chronic [Read] | 63 responses.
Flying With Broken Wings: How Chronic Illness Affects Our Relationships
Those of us who suffer from chronic illness know only too well how taxing it can be on our relationships with friends and family. How can we explain our disease to them so that they will [Read] | 35 responses.
Flying With Broken Wings Meet Sarah Downing And Her Thyroid
When my doctor diagnosed me with Hashimoto’s (an underactive thyroid caused by an autoimmune disease), I felt both relieved and sad – relieved because I finally had an answer to why [Read] | 38 responses.