knocked on my ass...

What a Fall and Winter. My thyroid and the one defective parathyroid gland were removed at the end of December. I had great hope all would be better, but...
I have regained 25 lbs.(hypothyroidism-still trying to get the synthroid levels right) still can't sleep and my GD parathyroid glands have not started to work again !!! I am on calcitriol and 8 600mg tabs of calcium per day. Folks, even though 95 % of the people who have this operation do well...I am in the 5% who have not done well...still tingling around and inside my mouth and my hands are horrible with numbness and tingling unless I take my meds !!! Even then, it is touch and go...mornings are the worst. Know this before you have this done !!!!

It has been really depressing and having to deal with a new supervisor who does not have enough experience and is 20 years younger and trying to "climb the ladder" and impress...I did not like her before and once again...I don't respect her. I would just once like to have a supervisor I respect. I don't care if I like them...but respect is more important. But at the age I am...its not likely to happen at this point.

Mother is OK...have her on the anti-depressants...no way she can get off of them now. She keeps asking what they are for and shouldn't she be off of them by now ? Just keep telling her...you are taking them for the rest of your life !!! We decided not to tell her about the Alzheimers diagnosis...just that she had strokes. This is also what I tell her when she says "I miss my freedom driving gave me, the most" as though I will break down and let her drive again !!!!
Yeah...right...I want you to kill yourself and someone else alone with you !!! NO WAY !!!

SIGH...more life later...