So my horoscope today: September 28, 2012 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Today you are finally coming to a deeper understanding of a task that has been particularly challenging to you. You’re getting a handle on things and feeling more and more empowered about what you need to do. This will be a wonderful day for you — your power is growing and it feels very good. You are starting to think that you could pretty much overcome…
1) You don’t have to shave. 2) No more bikini waxes. 3) Swimming is a breeze. 4) Cuts down on getting ready time. 5) Elicits sympathy in strangers. 6) Conversation starter. 7) No hair stylist appointments. 8) Wig budget goes way up. 9) Wind is no longer bothersome. 10) You look like the Buddha.
Wednesday is radio silence so I can see about getting entered into the Book of Life and clean up my list of people who have pissed me off and get off other people’s list of who I have pissed off. So tomorrow when the Book of Life is open, and I’m fasting, here’s what I’d like my entry to say oh great cosmic forces: Rachel had a year of transition, but we’re going to cut…
So I’ve learned today a lot about T4 and Hashimoto’s and taking thyroid replacement and me. So the thyroid meds I am taking lose their effectiveness by degrees as your body is supposed to create the same matching amount and thereby reducing your need of the drug by a certain amount. Only sometimes humans don’t work that way and sometimes you don’t create enough of it, and sometimes you need more of it, and sometimes…
The last post I wrote before I left New Orleans at the end of June – I forgot to post it. So I came across it today and posted it – only it seems out of place with my universe right now. The Croats left and with them nightly indulgences of cookies and cigarettes and all sorts of things that I told them would have to leave with them – and they did, on Saturday…
My spirit animal is the elephant – gentle giant, playful creature, strong. Every day since alopecia universalis and Hashimoto’s Disease became the outward manifestation of my inner turmoil – I have grown stronger – I’m getting back to me, only me has changed, is changing, will change. My doctor prescribed two months in Europe, to take the healing waters of Spain and the Adriatic, so I am heeding his advice and on my journey. Goodbye…
On March 12 my hair started falling out and on March 14th my stylist told me I had alopecia and it looked to him like alopecia areata by the circular bald spots developing on my head. It turned out to be alopecia universalis, which means all the hair on my body fell out. After dermatologist and primary care, and lots of blood work later, I wound up at an endocrinologist who informed me that I…
I was at Zumba on Saturday morning and a woman walked up to me and said that I look beautiful (with my bald head). At Rouses, the young cashier said, “You are so beautiful.” Seeings how this wasn’t happening when I had my beloved hair, maybe bald is the new black.
You have two options at your disposal at all times – the first is to lament not knowing sooner, and the second is to rejoice that you have the knowledge now. So let’s just start with the latter. I saw the endocrinologist today – and he was SUPERB – went over everything and looked at the holistic picture of what is going on with me. The diagnosis – alopecia universalis and Hashimoto’s disease. He thinks…
Tatjana gave me a massage with our favorite therapist for my birthday among other gifts. When I went to see her she said she looked up alopecia to see what its spirit meaning was in the universe and in a word it is Humiliation. And its deeper meaning is “I never get to do what I want to do. When is it going to be my turn?” So the affirmation or mantra associated with it…