It's been a busy week, full of reminders that I'm no Benjamin Button. After several visits to my doctor, I've learned that my thyroid gland is underperforming these days. My doctor had me tested for a bunch of things, and this discovery seems to explain a number of worrisome issues that I'd been dealing with.
I've now started taking synthetic thyroid hormone tablets; as my doc explained to me, it's the same sort of thing my body makes on its own, but since my body's been slacking off lately, something needed to be done. Low thyroid activity makes people sluggish, among other things, so it's to top up my levels and speed me up a bit. The dosage may take some tweaking, but I'm looking forward to feeling peppier.
In other news, I'm now packing a blackberry for work when I'm on call. It's probably good for my brain to have to learn to manage a new gadget, but I'm not yet in love with the thing. I can manage to do what I need to do in a reasonable amount of time, still, it seems like a lot of button pushing to get anything done. Perhaps this'll be enough to help me stave off codgerism for a few more years though...
