What a full on day, and yet, I didn’t even answer one of the week two learning objectives that I had thought I’d start and finish today 😅

I have set the alarm in my kitchen again so was up at 7.35am. I had a coffee in bed and scrolled on my phone, until I got up.

I had a phone appointment with my doctor at 10.15am, and had stayedbin bed until about 9.30am. I didn’t want to be stuffing around getting dressed after shower, drying my hair etx, when she called, so, instead I put the clothes that had been in the washing machine for a number of day, back on to completely rewash them. I then, changed the linen on my bed, folded the clothes hanging on the clothes horse and tidied up my clothes shelfs while putting them away.

I got a call exactly at the time of my appointment but it was a mobile phone. Usually it’s the clinic number that shows up. I answered it, and it was my doctor. She explained that the clinic was so busy that she was unable to get a phone line out, and that some people had been on hold trying to speak to reception for over 45 minutes. She said she had no other way to contact me, then to use her own personal mobile. Meaning I have have her personal phone number. Huh, I think that’s just hit me. I would never ever abuse it though. I have spent years looking for a doctor like mine, so, I will always do right by her as she has truly changed my life for the better.

Now, on to what the appointment was about. Getting the results of the tests I had done at the end of last year..

Honestly, I am now just at a point in my life where I think it’s really good that I believe that I am here to help understand others by dealing with so much, because, otherwise, well, I spent the first 31 years of my 36 years of life not believing or more importantly really, not understanding my purpose, caused me a world full of pain and sadness for far too many years..

Ok, back to today. Doc says to me that I have 206 antibiotics attacking my thyroid. 206. She said the normal amount is 35 and under. So, big bloody difference. And right now, she said we don’t do anything except monitor how I’m feeling, and ensure that every single time I need to have blood tests taken moving forward, all thyroid tests need to be included. Ok, cool, I said, if there’s nothing we need to do, that’s great. Then I said I had a couple of other quick questions. But she wasn’t finished. . Then she tells me that I have B12 deficiency that requires an injection of B12 once a week for three weeks. Ahh oh…

See here in Melbourne Australia, the testing sites are being so over run now, that the wait time of receiving the results of a covid test, have gone from less than 24 hours to up to and sometimes over a week. By which time, it would be irrelevant given the time that passed waiting on the results. The other option is obviously the at home testing kits, which would be great, except no one has stock. Anywhere. And according to my chemist, no one has any idea when there will be more supplies.

Unfortunately doctors clinics are either requestingbproof of double vaccination or a negative covid test to be seen in person. As I am not vaxxed due to the conversation and reservations my pwn doctor has given my very complex health conditions and medications, I am now literally stuck, needing professional medical help but being denied the right to actually see a doctor, simply because there is not currently possible to prove I am fine. And, I gotta admit, while I’m talking about this, I’m sick of feeling like I constantly have to justify myself and tell people that I am definitely not antivax. I’m at uni training to be a researcher. That’s science. I’m just not going to risk taking something when for now, to me it’s just not worth it.

Once again, today, this morning, I was told I have more things wrong with me. Two things actually. One of which I need an injection of B12 pretty soon for. I asked my doctor if I could just inject myself, since, let’s face it, I’m running out of options. She said, technically I could, if I could get the needles and syringes. As someone who has injected for tanning purposes, injecting myself is all good by me. So, I asked the doctor, if I can get them, does it just go into the muscle? And she said yes.

Now here is where I will say, I am very grateful that I am the sort of person who double checks things, and remind myself once again, just how important it is to be very clear when speaking. Especially when it involves anything medical. When I asked if it goes into the ‘muscle’, I actually meant, the fatty tissue around tummy area. I’ve done that plenty of times over the years, so figured I’d be fine. Thankfully though, I sent my sister a picture of the box and explained what doc had said. She’s currently training to be a nurse and immediately saw something on the box that meant nothing to me. She explained that the B12 shot had to actually go into the muscle, and then sent me google screen shots. She said I definitely can’t do it like the tanning ones.

So, I messaged Hannah who has completed the same course as my sister, and she said the same thing. Though Hannah explained exactly how and where it needed to go. Since Hannah has a job dealing with this sort of thing I asked if maybe she could come help me, or at least be here to make sure I’m doing it correctly.

Never would I have believed there would be a day when a person can’t seek medical treatment for something they clearly need, simply because they are following the advise of their doctor, yet the poor doctors hands are tied due to politics. I have read the exemption list for being able to have a “valid” reason not to be vaccinated. It is horrifying in my personal opinion. If I was perfectly healthy I’d be vaxxed, but I’m not. Yet, some of what I saw in the lists of what people can be living with and still unable to get an exemption made me want to be physically sick.

I spend a great deal of my time alone, with Boss. I only really leave my home to take Boss to the dog park, pick up medication at my local chemist, and pick up my click and collect grocery shopping. It’s the 10th of January and I haven’t seen anyone since nye, when my sister and her family and Sirri left. And that’s cool by me. I’m lucky because I love my own company and really am a true philosopher at heart, so I’m always day dreaming if not actively mentally engaged in something..

But having to now learn how to inject myself with Vitamin B12 injections into my thigh because there is no supply of covid testing kits and labs are being over run, this is how it has to be. What a crazy new world we live in.

Ahaha all of that ⬆️ was just about the phone call I had with my doctor 😅

After this, I needed to process for a bit, so made myself another coffee and sat down at my desk. I started googling what my doctor had said, which lead me to learn the name of the thyroid condition my sister has. Think mum has the same one too. My doctor couldn’t definitively answer where it was hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism..

Oh my.. i could hear my neighbours yelling outside and it was getting louder so I got up to look out the window and there’s an ambulance and I saw a lot, like maybe 5 police officers walking up to the front door..

Oh that note, I’m going to wrap this up, and write a new blog in the morning about thw rest of my day 😊😴