Re: Thank you & Update (Long)
From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 27 Sep 2001 02:18:42 -0500 (CDT)
Sally YAY!! I'm so happy to hear your good news! I bet you just feel so
much better about everything. I'm also glad we could help - we all
share each other's lows but we share the highs too, and this feels good!
Congrats!
At Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Sally wrote:
>
>Hi Everyone,
>
>Thank you for your support. I can't tell you how much it helps.
>Battling this thing is for life - but being part of this community
>helps. I don't have any close female friends 'in-the-flesh' here to
>talk to and you guys are certainly the next best thing!
>
>Sonnet, thank you so much for your kind words! Gee, I almost feel like
>crying I am so grateful for the support (emotional female that I am :-)
>). You are so supportive to all of us - I really admire that! I am
>feeling a bit better today. Got to try to keep the irrational thoughts
>under control! And focus on living and keeping well, and my work and
>hopefully, one day, a personal life. Am going to get a pedicure after I
>get paid and that will help me feel better as well.
>
>Had my third appointment with the endo today. In addition to PCOS (with
>all its lovely trappings) and hypothyroid, the latest lot of tests
>showed that I have very low calcium (despite supplements and a
>'normally' healthy diet), really really high PTH (parathyroid hormone -
>that is the hormone responsible for control of calcium balance) and low
>vit D - though why when I live in a sunny tropical country I can't
>think. Dr. said the low calcium explains the muscle cramps and has
>upped the calcium supplements and more tests in 2 weeks (apparently very
>low calcium can be much more serious than just muscle cramps). I am
>feeling more and more like a pharmacy.
>
>I think I have found a jewel in this Endo! She is young (32 and with 2
>little kids - her receptionist is not very discrete!), vivacious,
>personable, and disgustingly attractive (jealousy rears its ugly head).
>She seems genuinely interested in her patients as people - asking about
>work, etc. and referred me to one of her colleagues for a possible
>project. She is also knowledgeable (which she shares - explaining
>results and implications) and supportive and I believe she knows what
>she is doing. Anyway, it looks like I will be seeing a lot of her for
>the next six months or so while she gets all the drug dosages balanced
>and whatever further monitoring / testing she wants out of the way. She
>is very supportive of weight loss, while acknowledging the difficulty.
>She cheers vigorously for every pound down and does not criticize the
>gains - her weighing me every visit is going to help keep me on track -
>and reduced carbing is working slowly, along with the exercise - if I
>stick to it (so far 25 lbs down - about 40 to go).
>
>Thank you again. This board really is something and so are all of you!
>
>--
>SALLY
>
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