words and pictures

I have been fighting a virus this week, feeling really tired and grumpy (what’s new, right?)  It’s been a weird week, enough ups and downs to leave me feeling like a raggedy old yoyo.  I haven’t had much time for writing which means my brain has been overloaded with thoughts scratching to get out and […]

Documenting a bad day …

Owch I’m sore! Yesterday was a really bad day ok? I tried to write about it but my brain was such mush all i could come up with was “I feel …….”  My fingers struggled to type, my brain failed to compute and my whole body hurt. I didn’t sleep well, or much, and got […]

wet blanket syndrome x3

I once described having Hashimoto’s as feeling like a huge, heavy, wet blanket had been thrown over me: On good days, I have enough physical strength, will power and determination to throw the blanket off and see the world clearly, experience life, feel the ups and downs, appreciate everything and everyone around me and have […]

Spooty Symptom Awards, and the winner is….

Today has been completely yik. I know that it’s because i was naughty last night. Monday and tuesday are busy days for me so by tuesday night I am usually feeling revolting and needing  to take it easy and get an early night. Tuesday night has become ‘Lazy dinner night’ because I’m usually useless by […]

…diagnosis!!

Kids are at school and i finally woke up with some beans today! Not ‘full of beans’ exactly but definitely more beans than i’ve been having lately :) tonsillitis has almost cleared up – without antibiotics! So aside from trying to clean every inch of the house, i thought i’d also take the opportunity to […]