One Day At A Time....

So I passed by 10 or more different fast food places on my way to lunch today. I ended up going to a local fast food establishment for lunch. (to remain nameless.....) and waited a really long time in the drive thru and ended up with not quite the quality of meal i was expecting. after throwing away just under half the burger, drinking the melted (or never fully frozen) milkshake and eating the best part of the meal, the cole slaw, i went back to my office to cook up one of my office drawer lunches. I have made these before and other than burning my lip on one last week i hadn't had any problems with them. I added water, stirred, cooked, stirred again and let it set in my office drawer to cool while i did a some office like stuff. when i went to eat it, i pulled out the fork that had been resting in the cooling food and was pleasantly surprised to find this.... So my word of caution to all: CAUTION: AFTER COOKING, PRODUCT MAY BE HOT ENOUGH TO MELT YOUR PLASTIC CUTLERY!!!!!

Her treatment went well. She is at home now and will be able to restart her thyroid replacement medication Sunday and return to work on Monday.

So for those of you who didnt know, my mom was diagnosed with an enlarged thyroid in November at her annual check up. She has a family history of thyroid issues (at the time of her diagnosis, her mother Laurel, her niece Alyssa, he sister Carolyn and her sister-in-law Lisha have all had thyroid issues) So with testing and a family history of thyroid issues, they decided to remove her thyroid. This was done January 2, 2009. While they were in surgery to remove it, they did a biopsy of nodules in the thyroid and the results were cancer. They are pritty sure they got it all, but to be sure, she will be getting at least one round of radioactive Iodine treatment. She has been on thyroid medication for the past several months and after a bit of trial and error, got a good dosage level. Recently she had to change to a day-to-day medication so that when it came time for treatment, she would be totally off of all thyroid medication. S he had her blood taken y...