happy thanksgiving - especially for LIDsters

[Guest guest]

I'm one of the " lucky " ones doing LID for thanksgiving - I'm

scheduled to get locked away for RAI next Tuesday, assuming the TSH

came back okay...

I was surprised that i was able to make so much food work out -

thanks so much to whoever came up with the milk-less cornbread

recipe in the archives - i used that as a basis for my

dressing/stuffing. besides the corbread and dressing, we had

turkey, sweet potato casserole, green beans, cranberry sauce. my

other half had the bottled iodine-laden gravy; i had to keep

reminding myself it was NOT alright to lick that spoon... Plus the

fact that the wine we had with dinner affected me much more due to

hyponess but i have to admit, i have not had the problems

with " hypo hell " that i have in the past - my aches and pains

haven't been nearly as bad; i can take care of them with a couple

advil and i've been able to walk okay. i've just been sleeping a

lot more. i also felt better once i was off the cytomel. i'm still

feeling a bit " cheated " that i had to spend an extra week off the

meds because of the holiday - i KNEW that they would never schedule

me to go on in on thanksgiving weekend but i didn't open my mouth

when i should have at the beginning... so instead of just getting

out now like i should have, i still have yet to go in.

i'm still upset that when i called the hospital for instructions

about what i could bring or not bring (the doctor's office was

strangely clueless and could tell me nothing) the person i talked to

was pretty unsympathetic... he agreed that i probably couldn't bring

anything back out, and he acted like it was strange of me to even

ask what i could bring - as if, what could i possibly need? i asked

if they provided anything other than a TV and he said no. he

said " we give you a gown to wear " . oh, joy.

i've gotten some good suggestions from friends - like visiting the

dollar store beforehand and buying some " junk " type items to " play "

with. i'm thinking of some origami paper too; think they'd mind if

i filled the room with radioactive paper birds? oh well,

Shari in FL T -4 days and counting...