Graves’ disease

My youngest daughter, or my 2^nd daughter, or my number 2 Daughter, (N2D), has contracted Graves Disease. I was 25 when I was diagnosed with Graves. She is a few years younger then I was when I was diagnosed. N2D and her Doctor have been trying to manage her Graves through medication for over a year now. It does not appear to be getting any better, so the decision was made to give her a dose of radioactive iodine therapy.

Twenty five years earlier, I had the same treatment. It appears some things don’t change that much in medicine. I would assume the calculation for the dosage is probably more accurate. Medicine is still treating the symptoms and not the cause, to quote a line from Rocky Horror Picture Show. We have come such a long way with Diabetes treatments, Cancer treatments and most other treatments.

Not in the case of Graves’. Friday is the big day for N2D’s treatment. Take this pill, (the red one – Matrix), and stay away from everyone for 3 or 4 days. You will be emitting alpha, beta or gamma rays on everything around you. As you walk around or sit down, or sleep you will leave a radioactive signature that could last for a few years. It may possibly last a thousand years or maybe a million years. Saying; N2D was here.

I left my radioactive signature in Wichita Kansas. I am sure it has faded or been mixed with all the other radioactive signatures, that us Humans have managed to leave lying around.

Our expectation is that it will all go smoothly for N2D, followed by a normal period of activity for her Thyroid hormone. Some time in the future her Thyroid will shrink back to a normal size and then she will have to take thyroxin to increase the lower hormone levels.

Not much else to say, other then, Glow with Pride! :-)