The Good & The Bad
The Bad: being that when I talked to my doctor yesterday I found out there's one more thing wrong with me. My Adrenal Glands (the little fellows that provide the much loved adrenaline) are burnt out. Apparently, it's because they're not working anymore that is somehow making my thyroid resist the thyroid medication I was taking. So, it means that we have to first get my Adrenal Glands working again and then I'll be able to go back onto the thyroid medication.
And of course the first question out of my mouth was, "And how long is it going to take to get my adrenal glands to work again?"
"It could take months..." comes her reply, "depending on how burnt out yours are."
We won't know for sure how long that could be until I do a saliva test (she's going to be sending me out these little tubes that I'm suppose to spit into and then send back *raises eyebrow*).
In some ways this all seems so unreal because I'm not the typical candidate for getting these kind of health problems. It's usually the highly motivated have-to-achieve-everything-now people who end up like this (and usually when they're much older) whilst I'm the chick that gets accused by her highly-motivatd older sister *pokes Tach* that I procrastinate to extremes. I just somehow managed to find the one glitch in the system--a weak body. As a little kid Mum says I used to always love my afternoon naps. And when I was seven one of my kidneys actually stopped working because of a chocolate over-load from Esther. But the worse has been my dodgy immune system. I've always gotten cold after flu after cold in winter. The ultimate being when I got a cold in the middle of summer from sitting in front of the air conditioner for too long...*roll*
But the Good News: is that God didn't create me a sporty person. I can't catch a ball for nuts. And as for hitting a cricket ball with the bat--my cricket champion Grandpa will testify to my inability. lol I love the outdoors, though (got that from Grandma) and all the animals God placed in 'em. And like Mum, I'm gonna have to have a house with a million windows just so I can feel the sunlight when I'm having to be inside.
More good news is that we now have more answers. I don't think there's anything worse to any sick person than not knowing what's going on inside them. It's somewhat depressing to find out that more than just my thyroid has been burnt out, but it's also so exciting to know that now that we know we can do something about fixing the problem.
You know, she was telling me that when I first went to see her in January she was suspicious that I might have an adrenal problem as well, but she said she didn't say anything because she hadn't yet found a teenager that had burnt out their adrenal glands. I find that somewhat funny 'cause everywhere I turn I seem to find out that my body has yet again defide the norm.
For instance--I don't know if I've told any of you other than Kaycie this--I'm deaf in one ear. Like totally deaf. We found out when I was around five and I spent the year before I started school seeing heaps of doctors (all the lolly pops, ice creams and presents for being "such a patient little girl" amongst all this was just the best fun *grin*) in an attempt to find out why. They all came to the conclusion that it could have been a virus (if so, it's a miracle that I didn't lose hearing in both my ears) or I was just born like it.
God blessed me with above average hearing in my other ear, though, so in everyday life I have no troubles. I just don't have any directional hearing, but that brings more laughs than it is a hindrance. Like, we have this really long house and say I can hear Mum talking. I'll usually end up at the opposite end of the house to where she is before I realise that her voice is actually fainter...but the funniest is when Aaron forgets that my leaf ear is the one that's deaf and so ends up whispering his top-secret info into the wrong ear.
Wait, I should make a list of the unique things about my body. lol This could be interesting.
1. I'm deaf in one ear
2. I was the only one out of a family of 9 to get the Chicken Pox
3. I had a kidney stop when I was seven
4. I got a cold in the middle of the hottest summer we've ever had
5. I managed to burn my thyroid and adrenal gland out at 15
6. and catch Glandular Fever in the same year
7. But my ultimate claim to fame has to be the fact that I've never had to go to a hospital despite being the sicket person out of my whole family (all of which [excluding the youngest two] have had to)!
Sometimes it's definitely frustrating not being your average healthy human being (then who really is without some kind of health problem?), but it's just like waht I say when people ask me how I feel about having a deaf ear, "Having had it since as far back as I can remember I know no different. Besides it's usually more fun than it is a hindrance."
Maybe I can't say the exact same thing about my current situation, but I can say that my life has the fingerprints of our Father's love all over it. 'Cause think about it. He could have given me the skill to wield a cricket bat, but instead he gave me the gift of arranging words. He could have given me the passion to pursue never before achieved world goals, but instead he gave me a double dose of patience. He could have made me skilled at building things with my hands, but instead he chose to give me a natural eye for colour and design. The gifts He has given me are ones that haven't really been hindered by me being sick. Just how cool is that? God just keeps proving over and over again that He's in control--that He has a plan. He might allow trials in our lives, but never without providing us with the gifts and tools best suited to overcome them. And I praise Him for that :)
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