Dear Thyroid™ � thyroid blog

Thy-story – An Open Letter To My OB/GYN

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:00:50 +0000

Dr. “Jerkface”, You may not remember me, since we only spoke in your office for ten or fifteen minutes a few months ago, but my name is Kelly Sangree. I came to the “Lady Parts” practice with complaints of amenorrhea, weight gain, sluggishness, fatigue, depression, a noticeable goiter, and muscle pain. A colleague of yours [...]

Not many people want to take advice from a fat, exhausted, balding woman

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:00:34 +0000

Dear Thyroid, I have much to thank you for… The things I want to thank you for aren’t usually viewed as good skills to have. However, since it is all I have, I am learning to be appreciative. Thank you for making me the “brave” one of my friends who tries every hair color in [...]

Thyroid, You Have Made Me Suffer and Stolen My Life

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:00:30 +0000

Dear Thyroid, Oh Thyroid… Where were your shining numbers when I lost almost all my hair? When I had so many bald spots that I had to wear a hat, and I hate hats. But you wouldn’t take it all, just enough to help me feel that much less human. Where were your numbers when [...]

It’s on like Donkey Kong

Dear Thyroid — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:00:53 +0000

Dear Thyroid: Put your game face on because I’m coming out swinging! In a mere nine days you and I will battle to the death! Standing ready in my corner is a top-notched ENT surgeon and the best Endo in all of Indy! So, as I throw back another SSKI-laced orange juice, know that I am [...]

Thyroid Diva Swan Dive

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:00:57 +0000

Goodbye. It’s been an interesting life with you, far too interesting for most of the time, and although things started out well you’ve been destroying me one way or another for the past 6 years. It was the T3 bombs in the brain that were the worst. I could cope with the palpitations, I hardly [...]

Thyroid Disease is your Gift to My Sixteen Year Old Self?

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:00:09 +0000

Dear Thyroid; Why must you ruin my life at my young age of 16? You are so unpredictable know matter what dosage I take, you never seem to like it. I have lost so much because of you these last 2 years, because you have given me terrible acne and caused me to gain 30 [...]

Come Hithah’ Thyroid Disease

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:00:24 +0000

Dear Thyroid (or what’s left of you): Our relationship surfaced a few years ago when a doctor ran some routine blood work and found a high TSH. I needed to be on a replacement hormone, and so it began…my daily dose of synthroid. Throughout the years, levels went up, levels went down, hashimoto’s antibodies surfaced. [...]

Weight, Doctor! I Need Some Bloody Warmth

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:00:21 +0000

Dear Thyroid What does a person need to do, to be able to get the result of their blood work from their doctor and not from a nurse who will not give you the levels! Heck she didn’t even know where to look it up. OK! So the thyroid still isn’t working after a year [...]

If You Listen, Dear Doctor, Here is What’s in it For You

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:00:46 +0000

Dear Endocrinologist Once again I will be visiting you today. Me and my notebook with all my questions and fears. I will be honest, Dr., I am pretty done. And tired. Always tired. I want you to hear me so badly. When I tell you the things that are happening now; the atrial fibrillation, the [...]

Reload for the New Year

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:00:49 +0000

Another year is about to come and go But yet I still feel as if I’m adrift in limbo I can rewind to look back I can reset from what I have learned Not able to fast forward Perhaps it’s time to reload Time to start anew Try again and keep trying No resolutions to [...]