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Not living the life I imagined – a chronic illness story

I had a little rant about unhelpful ‘inspirational quotes‘ a little while ago, so I won’t go into that again, but ‘Live The Life You Imagined’, is one that gets on my nerves, and probably yours too if something out of your control got in the way. Mine is hypothyroid disease…..

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Living with hypothyroidism – blame, balance, and being kind to yourself

This week is Thyroid awareness week and the 25th of May is World Thyroid Day. It feels like every day of the week and every week of the year is National or International awareness day for something or other. Well, this is mine. I hope we don’t get too weary of these sorts of days and weeks that we become indifferent about them. Anyway, I wrote more about my Hypothyroid disease story on a post a few years ago if you’d like a read of that first; and please scroll down to watch the video I made about it as well…

Living with hypothyroid disease

August 19, 2013

Some of you may have read a rather depressing blog post I did a while ago about my experiences with hypothyroidism. Not much has really changed for me since then, but I have just found a wonderful page with some really good advice, so I thought I’d share it. There are some excellent links worth clicking on as well. http://thyroid.about.com/od/thyroidbasicsthyroid101/a/Living-Well-With-Thyroid-Disease-Tips.htm

Living with hypothyroid disease

Hypothyroid Disease

I’m writing this blog for everybody else with this disease. I hope it may help; it may not, but I’m guessing it will be quite cathartic for me to finally write about it.