KathyLesure

The story of my life continues to evolve.

So … do you remember me saying about a year ago that the best place to begin telling your story is at the beginning? 🤔 Yep. That’s still true, but let me give you a sneak peak at the end first.

I will be having a total thyroidectomy on Friday, June 9th. It was a LONG journey from there to here. 😓

I made a number of visits to my doctor in 2017 for what I thought were (routine) asthma problems. The only thing that “wasn’t” routine was the frequency of those problems. See, I’ve been an asthmatic since I was little. In fact, I don’t remember when I didn’t have debilitating asthma attacks. Although I could never leave home without my inhaler, the “attacks” became less frequent as I grew older. As a matter of fact, I probably hadn’t had a ‘real’ attack in well over twenty years!

Until year 2017 that is …

My “asthma” problems hit me hard around the top of the year. I felt like something was “always” IN my throat while hands were wrapped around my throat! Squeezing! 🥵 And the least little bit of exertion had me huffing and puffing like a locomotive😮‍💨, but I was somewhat used to that because- I mean, I was ‘still’ overweight 🤷🏽‍♀️ and … what? Asthmatic? You guessed it! 🎯

So I did what any other self-respecting, “I know my own body” Google-Doc would do: I marched into the Doctor’s Office with my own diagnosis and expected that to be that. 😤💁🏾‍♀️

It wasn’t. 😳

He ordered blood work, x-rays, had me fill out some sort of questionnaire (after he asked me a half dozen questions 🙄) and ordered more tests that I still can’t remember right now. 🤔 I sat there the whole time huffing and puffing like a locomotive 😮‍💨; not from exertion, but from major ticked-off-ness! 😡 I mean, come’on Doc. You’re wasting time: yours -and- mine. Give me some FMLA papers (so I can miss work legit while we figure things out 🤷🏽‍♀️) and a few good inhalers, steroids, allergy shots or whatever and get cracking on getting me better so I can GO! 🚗💨

He did ‘almost’ (🚫 FMLA papers for me -not at that point) all of that plus all of the other stuff that he in his professional opinion thought he should do (🙄). As bad as my attitude was about it initially, I was really glad he stood firm in the end even though the results came with news that I wasn’t prepared for and didn’t all together understand.😢

Oh. Did I mention that my health continued to decline while I was waiting for my results? 🥴😷 It did. Fast.😩

Please check back for the next installment. I’ll tell you how everything got “really scary” really quickly. 😱

Until then, I know you’re familiar with the statement “let God be God”. Right?

Good. Let the Doctor be the Doctor, too.

Bye y’all.👋🏾 Take care.

K~