Re: *CIndi & Inga'S MOM (was: Help with Lab Results

[Guest guest]

Dang Inga...your post about made me cry..beause I recognized so many of the

same things about my Mom. Here's the really bad part. My mom was a suicide

and it was totally unexpected. Ya reckon the depression from the hypo had just

gotten to her? Yea. Her autopsy indicated a fibrous thyroid with nodules and

adrenal hyperplasia.

Like your mom, she would clean house at night. Her hair had been gray and

coarse feeling for two decades. We used to comment on it. Her heels were dry

and cracked and she had been putting lotion on them for decades. She also was

all the time getting bruises and didn't know how she got them. I can also

remember her taking Ex-Lax laxative for years...and she downed Metamucil every

day. I look back and don't know how she did all she did for so many

people...she was a caring and generous soul...and I think she went as long as

she could.

Get this. In the last conversation she had with me...when i was asking her

something about her ear problems (she was having some pain again), she said to

me " I've had it with doctors " . In other words, she had given up and I just

didn't realize the full impact of that statement. But ya know, it's

understandable. Because so many of us here have gone for years and years...and

not a

dang bit of help from doctors except a missed diagnosis.

But you're right. We honor our mother's memories by informing everyone we

can when we think they have low thyroid....we honor them when we refuse to take

any crap off of the medical profession that failed them (and us)...and we

honor them when we share what we know with others and help each other...so that

someone else does not go thru it too.

Cindi