Sick

I haven't been posting much lately because of allot of things.

1) I was in allot of pain last week. Then when I started to feel better I had a bunch of homework to catch up on. (when my RA is bad I cant type and find it really hard to write so things get prioritised)

2) I went in for my thyroid scan on Friday. No word on how it went. Still more waiting.

3) I am now really sick from a nasty cold. It was kinda kicking around on Wednesday night but I think the visit to the hospital for my scan (with all of the lovely bugs floating around that place!) kicked it into high gear. I have a DR. appointment for next week (I'll need antibiotics :( for a lung infection by then)

4) My dad's side of the family has polisistic kidney disease (I know I got a great set of genes in my family!!!) anyways my aunt has kidney failure and is getting dialysis several times a week. Dad has started the process to donate his kidney to her. But wants me and my brother to get kidney ultra sounds just to 'make sure' before he does it.

Technically we (meaning me and my brother) shouldn't have it. My family was part of a study looking at the genetics and how this disease is passed on. Fortunately or unfortunatly in our family it is more prevalent in the female side. (ie: my grandmother got it from her mother, although several siblings of her have it, it originated in the female line) My aunt is the only one that has it out of 3 children. Unfortunately she also passed it onto all of her 3 kids. Because Dad doesn't have it (I remember him going for tests when I was really little) we technically cannot have it because it skipped him. (also never known to skip a generation).

One of my biggest disappointments of the RA was knowing that I could now never donate to one of my cusions if they ever needed it.