OMG Hil, that's just maddening.
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - Dec 14, 2007 10:11:28 am PST #7432 of 10001
hip deep in pie
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2007 10:21:36 am PST #7433 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica, strength to you and your family.
Hil, sometimes it's hard to see why some people are in the doctoring profession. I mean, I can tell you to feel better too, but who cares? "You shouldn't be feeling unwell therefore you aren't" is hardly worthy of the training. Not that my doctors are curing me, or anything, but at least they believe in a problem beyond the scope of their tests.
vw bug - Dec 14, 2007 10:22:48 am PST #7434 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Oh, Hil. I'm so sorry. I'm really glad you're seeing another doctor, though, this is so frustrating. You know yourself best, though. Keep fighting.
Jesse - Dec 14, 2007 10:28:58 am PST #7435 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's incredibly aggravating.
-t - Dec 14, 2007 10:32:44 am PST #7436 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Glad you have another doctor to see, Hil. Ugh.
lisah - Dec 14, 2007 10:39:23 am PST #7437 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Jessica, I'm so sorry for your loss.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 14, 2007 10:40:53 am PST #7438 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Jess, much peace and strength to you and your family.
Burrell - Dec 14, 2007 10:47:58 am PST #7439 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm seeing another doctor next week.
Good. I think your numbers may well be in the marginal zone, but I definitely know that some doctors treat in the TSH 5-10 zone. It's called subclinical hypothyroidism.
Hil R. - Dec 14, 2007 10:49:26 am PST #7440 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Huh. I was just looking a bit more closely at some of my blood tests. My TIBC level is consistently a bit above normal. However, my iron level is consitently toward the high end of normal. The internet tells me nothing about this. High TIBC plus low iron means anemia, but high TIBC and high iron doesn't seem to exist to the internet. I guess that, since no doctor every told me it was a problem (and since I'm a vegetarian, they always check my iron), I'll figure it's OK.
sarameg - Dec 14, 2007 10:51:49 am PST #7441 of 10001
I have done virtually no xmas shopping. I am so screwed.