My right hip has been feeling pretty good. And I have been really testing it out lately. I have always wanted to run but either my asthma or my hips have kept me from it. As with most everything I do, I am giving this my all. I am planning on running in a Turkey Trot this year and started training. I am telling you...I really feel like my body hates me. I have been trying to go to the gym every day except Sundays. I was doing well until last week when, boom, respiratory infection!! This is the second one in a months time!! Last night was my first night back in a week. I made it through my run despite coughing and pain from the left hip. Then I met with my trainer, who kicked my butt. Today I was only feeling a little tired until now. I was sitting at my desk and started to get short of breath...back to the nebulizer treatments I go...
As I mentioned...the left hip (non-operated side) is starting to show it's bad side. And quite honestly I am surprised it took this long for the pain to get more frequent. For the last couple weeks I have been dealing with pain in the left hip during any activity. Last night was the worst I have had. I was running on the treadmill and I felt a familiar pain. I had this pain once before in my right hip...this is the pain that was the beginning of the end of pre-op life. This is the pain that started the series of injections that slowly started to lose their effectiveness. And now, here I am with this pain in the left hip!! I know I need to call and schedule the injection...I just am so not ready to be there again!! Not to mention I have another surgery of a different kind in my very near future...
Within the next month or so I will be having thyroid surgery. Right before my 3rd right hip surgery, I had an appointment with my family doctor. While talking I mentioned that I had stopped taking my Synthroid (my medicine for my hypo-thyroid). He looked at me with the "What??? Why would you do that??" look. I told him that I didn't feel any different whether I was on or off the medicine. This prompted him to feel my thyroid. The look that came over his face was not one I was expecting. His eyes got very big and he immediately ordered tests. While I was recovery from the 3rd right hip surgery I went through a series of tests. The tests revealed that I have a quite large nodule on my thyroid. I had a needle biopsy and met with an endocrinologist. We talked about various options regarding this nodule. My concern...the "c" word...cancer!! There is a chance that due to the size of the nodule the needle biopsy was not able to get samples from all of the nodule and that there could be cancer. I have decided that I really don't want to take that chance and I am having it removed. They will be removing half of my thyroid and the nodule. While I am still under in surgery, they will examine the nodule for cancer. If there is any cancer, they will remove my entire thyroid and I will be treated for cancer. I can not tell you how scared I am of this!!! I am praying very hard and trying to think only happy thoughts.
I am a fighter!!! I always have been and I always will be!!! But sometimes, I feel like my brain and my body don't see eye to eye.
Anyway, to some it up
- The right hip feels pretty good
- The left hip is ready to start receiving injections (even though I am not)
- The respiratory system is junk and I wish I could get a new one
- The thyroid and it's nodule friend must come out...I will not let cancer in!!!
