And the Slack Blogger Award goes to...

Me?  Really?  Of course I thought it may have been me, but oh ... (insert worst speech award, or No 1 'Gwyneth' moment here).

Yeah I'm slack, and I decided you could have a taste of what would be my theatrics as an intro what with it being Awards season and all, as well as the fact that there are a lot of blogging awards flying round the interwebs these days!

So how are you?  Me, why I'm tired, cranky, irritable, sick, buckets of sunshine, thank you for asking :)

No I'm not really.  I had a meltdown at the Doctors last week and would you believe it, it wasn't over the Princess's refusal to sleep in her own bed like any normal small person should sleep deprivation.  He mentioned the C word.  As in 'it could be', well he actually said 'there is a small as in less than 2% chance, that it might be', but my voices brain started screaming at me, OMFG, OMFG, OMFG!  Which led to a small sob, then flood of tears when the Doctor noticed and told me I'd be ok.  ( My Doctor is nice, lovely, but I really missed the Dr I had for 25 years at the point, familiarity and all that - oh yeah and he'd tell me to stop being over dramatic!).

Its ok, let your breath out.  I'm fine. Still a wee bit emotional but there is no cancer, hooray!  (I typed that with a Capital C, and went back and changed it - take that cancer).  So what is wrong with me?  I'm still waiting to find out, my thyroid is going gangbusters though, apparently, well maybe the Dr and the Radiologist used other words that involved things like 'hyper' and 'toxicosis'.  So I may have a auto-immune disease that will have me taking a pill everyday for the rest of the world and slowly morphing into one of those people who have to put away money each week to fill their prescriptions once every 3  months.

What they said....
Hyperthroidism or Thyrotosicosis (real words used by the way): (Nah don't panic, Dr Google isn't involved.  Tests done by my GP & Radiologist with referral to Mr Endocrinologist happening), so...

Symptoms (Don't worry I'll just give you the fun ones, no icky bodily functions like diarrhoea to be mentioned. Crap. Sorry)

1. Tiredness (So I can't blame the Princess for all of it)
2. Insomnia (Great, so when you want to sleep, are allowed to sleep, you cant)
3. Irritability (See points one and two, you'd be pissed too)
4. Inability to gain weight but increased appetite (Woohoo, the bonus feature!  At least there is a plus with this)

Potential Causes:
Graves disease, bacterial infection (ruled out through blood test), cancer (ruled out through ultrasound), Hashimoto's disease.

Now out of the two possible real causes I'd rather have Hashimoto's, I don't know anything about either disease and frankly can't be arsed reading about either until they tell me as I'd rather wait to get the medical diagnosis first, but doesn't Hashimoto's sound cool?  Like the reason you've got it is due to riding a SuperBike too fast round a sushi train and got 'kapowed' by a samurai...

Kapow image from unkown, Karate man image from freesamuraisudoku.com