A litlle more ‘daughter’ humor for the crowd….
My adult daughter, who at the time was living 1200 miles away(she has moved back home for a while for a number of reasons), had gone thru the WHOLE gamut of Graves – from all of the rollercoasting between hyper and hypo – including a couple of visits to the ER because of her heart rate being out of contol. She finally had RAI and eventually stabilzed but unfortunately did experience the TED bulging eyes problem. And last September had bilateral OD surgery – from which she has recovered marvelously and looks as beautiful as she did prior to the TED (I have to add that she never was NOT beautiful because I know she will read this…lol).
Not much humor yet, but here it comes….
Well, I went for my annual physical last November and my PCP informed me that my thyroid numbers looked suspicious and set up an appoinment for me with an endo (and I asked for the same one who had treated my daughter when she moved back). It came as no surprise that the endo informed me that I have Graves, but , having had the knowledge of what my daughter went thru, I at least had a lot of the questions already answered.
So when I got home, I spoke with her and said to her ‘ Thanx, I’ve been diagnosed with Graves and the doctor said it is often hereditary, so I must of gotten it from you!’ She stared at me with a dumbfounded look and said ‘Dad, it doesn’t work that way !’
