Out With the Old..

So I started this blog with every intention of blogging at least weekly, but then I got sick. Really sick. I had my thyroid taken out in mid July and I've not been the same ever since.

I had to have my thyroid removed because I had Graves Disease. If you've ever known anyone with Graves, you'd know what a crappy disease it is. You basically have a system that thinks it's on the best Starbucks espresso ever... all the time, 24 7. I was pinging all the time! I was breast feeding Ben (after a year!!!) and had to stop that as well after the surgery. God, what a long summer!!!!

After my surgery, which the surgeon botched by the way, I was diagnosed with hypocalceima, and hypoparathyroidism. Basically, my body doesn't produce enough parathyroid hormone to regulate the calcium in my body. If I don't take enough calcium, I'll have a heart attack. Did you know that you have to have calcium for your heart to function?? I didn't know that. I've spent so many days and weeks in the hospital since August!

Anyhow, besides my crappy summer, stopping bfing, and having surgery, well, two, I had a port inserted as well, the kids have decided to go out of 2009 with a bang! Hannah was just admitted into the hospital with pneumonia and Ben had RSV... Both are recovering now, but what a week before xmas that was.

Long story short, my New Year's resolution is to blog at least weekly from now on. I just got a new laptop for xmas from my Dear Husband! and now I can sit here comfortably on the couch, watch the kids kill each other and blog without having to be shut up over in the corner where I can't see all the juicy action.