{"id":813,"date":"2008-10-18T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=813"},"modified":"2008-10-18T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T23:20:11","slug":"hashimotos-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/hashimotos-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hashimoto’s REVENGE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s official. I’m finally a full-fledged member of my family. I now have a legitimate thyroid disease. It’s a mainstay trademark of the Payne family, at least on my mother’s side. You just can’t go very long without some sort of thyroid problem. But for me, it’s a particularly appropriate disease.<\/p>\n

I have been diagnosed with something called Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis<\/a>. It’s a great ailment for a scifi writer. Essentially, my body has decided that my thyroid is a foreign object. It has therefore seen fit to create anti-thyroid specific anti-bodies. These anti-bodies have been specially designed to carry out one order: kill the thyroid<\/em>. And, I’m proud to say, they have been entirely successful. My thyroid has been utterly defeated! Yay anti-bodies! You’ve shown that thyroid menace that he doesn’t belong in my personal ecosystem. Let that be a lesson for any thyroid rebellion that may attempt an organized uprising in the future: you will be quelled<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s on to a lifetime of thyroxine replacement drugs. This is in addition to my existing high-blood pressure medication (which was a result of the anti-thyroid anti-body infestation). Along with the horse pills<\/a> I’ve been taking for my recent sinus infection, I scarcely feel 31 anymore (almost 32, I suppose). These are the degenerative symptoms of a 60-year-old<\/em>. I’m beginning to already feel like a broken old man.<\/p>\n

Of course, all told, as far as inherited genetic disorders go, thyroid problem<\/strong> is on the low end of the scary family medical history<\/em> spectrum, right down there with sciatica and male-pattern baldness. I could have done worse. There’s very little by way of cancer or heart disease in my family, either side. And I have relatives on every branch of the family tree that have lived past 100. So, all in all, things are looking cheery for a long, productive life, which I’m sure makes all of my friends and family very happy, indeed.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, I’m sure you’re all very concerned about where I am in regards to my novel. I will update everyone shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s official. I’m finally a full-fledged member of my family. I now have a legitimate thyroid disease. It’s a mainstay trademark of the Payne family, at least on my mother’s side. You just can’t go very long without some sort of thyroid problem. But for me, it’s a particularly appropriate disease. I have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[611,447,503],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-hashimotos-thyroiditis","tag-health","tag-sick","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}