So earlier this week I went in for an ultrasound on my thyroid Tuesday. That evening the the nurse practioner called and told me that the "nodule" on my thyroid was both solid and cystic. Which means I now have to go in next Monday & Tuesday for a RadioActive Iodine Uptake and Scan. Which means I have to go take a RADIOACTIVE pill Monday morning. Then Tuesday I have to go in and they will do a scan and see how the iodine and radiation are reacting in the nodule.

There are two different reactions. It will either be hot or cold. If its hot the NP said depending on my TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) they will probably just monitor the nodule and my TSH. If its cold, they have to biopsy it and see if it is cancer. Yeah, thats right Cancer. UGH!

I don't want to wait and see if it is hot. I am losing hair drastically. I used to be able to put my hair into a hair tie 2 times and it was tight. Now its 3 bordering on 4 times. The NP said oh well, thats probably not related to your thyroid, its probably due to vitamin deficiancy. Well, i am taking 2000iu of Vitamin D/day and I am still losing lots of hair. Depending on the results of the RAIUS I plan on going to a new doctor for a second opinion. Online there are sites that talk of DRs who treat the SYMPTOMS not the blood test. I just want to get better. I want to stop losing hair and having super dry skin and being tired all.the.time, and gaining weight/not being able to lose weight. I have all these symptoms that scream HYPOthyroid but this office is saying HYPERthyroid because of my TSH levels. I hate this. (Elle if your reading this tell your husband to listen to his patients when they are having issues not just order blood tests and ignore the symptoms the patient is having.)

Now onto the other part of my oh so crappy week. I have fire ants in the house. But these were just itty bitty tiny guys. So Monday I called our bug guys and they came out and put out bait. It is getting close to the 30 day re-spray. Well, while they were putting bait out they checked out where I said the ants may be coming from. What did they find? Ants yes. Oh but also TERMITES. MOTHER F#%&##. It just gets worse and worse. So today the Terminex guys come (they are contracted through our home warranty, so instead of 1k, it only cost us $200). At least that was one up for this week. However the guy called this morning at 8:30 to tell me they'd be here this afternoon. About 30 minutes later, while making breakfast for Wy, and me in my pajamas still (read shorts and tshirt only), the doorbell rings. Yup its the exterminator. So I have to go get the dog in lock him in the kitchen with baby gates, and then try to go upstairs and get dressed. However while getting dressed I look out the window and the dude is waiting outside the front door. So now I have to run back downstairs and see what he wants. I need to move the fence from our garden so he can treat there. So I again go to get dressed, succeed, but then have to leave the kid in the kitchen with the dog to move the fence. It just went on and on.

Thank goodness T comes home Saturday night. But then my Grandma is flying in Sunday afternoon so that she can watch Wyatt during my Dr appts as well as the following three days because I can't hold Wyatt too close because well, I will be radioflippinactive. I have to sleep in a separate bed, flush the toilet two-three times after using it and wash my hands extremely througholy.

So Wyatt is in need of some new shoes. He is in a size 7 or 7 1/2 depending on the shoe. Sadly, he is about to outgrow his current pair of Robeez. I love these shoes. They are sooo comfy because they don't have hard soles. They are easy for him to run in and go anywhere. Also sadly, he wore them to his grandparents house, so the bottoms are covered in dog pee because apparently they think its ok not to clean up after their overgrown rats. So they aren't allowed to be worn inside anymore.

Well, there is a this wonderful lady who is a mother of twins that is giving away a pair of Robeez. So I am really hoping I win! She gives you like 7 ways to enter. I am doing all but the twitter one since I don't have a twitter account. Here is hoping I win!!

So on Kelly's Korner Blog every week she does a Show Us Your Life McLinky party. This week she is doing baby names. Baby names are something everyone thinks of eventually. Whether you are trying for a baby now or in the future. you may hear a name and think oh my, they named their child Cadillac? I would never name my child after a car! For me, I love baby names. When we were choosing names for Wyatt, we had such a list going. Granted, most of the names on that list were girl names. For boys we had 2 names. Connor and Wyatt.

T LOVED the name Connor. But I just couldn't get the image of Lacy Peterson and that sad little empty bedroom out of my mind. So we choose Wyatt. Now because I "picked" the first name, T thought he should get to pick the middle name. Fair enough. However, I didn't expect him to pick Dennis. I have never been a fan of Wyatt's middle name, BUT the meaning behind it is what really matters.

Dennis was T's favorite cousin. Back in 2005, Dennis died of a heart attack. He was only in his 40s. Dennis also had a sister who died from a diabetic coma when she was only in her 20s. So we thought by naming Wyatt Dennis, we could honor Dennis' memory and show tribute to his aunt and uncle who had lost so much.

Girl names I am addicted to. I love love love the name Cecelia. Unless things change dramatically before we have a baby girl, her name will be Cecelia. T loves the name Kairi (Ky-ree). Its cute, but not my style. So if we have a baby girl # 2, this will be here name. Other names I like are Kailen (Kay-lynn), Isabel (but sadly it has become much too popular for my taste), Charlotte (if we ever had twins I would kinda sorda need to name them Cecelia and Charlotte), Amelia, Olivia (again too popular), Penelope (Penny), oh the list goes ON!

Boy names I have expanded my list since Wyatt. I like the name Oliver, Wesley, Beau, Noah, Warner, Hudson, and Tristan.

So any future children will most likely be:

Wesley Travis --Travis is husband's name and my great grandpa's last name
Oliver Bruce --Bruce is my favorite uncle's name
Cecelia Violet --Violet is my grandmother's name
Kairi Anne --Anne is part of my middle name, T's mother's middle name, and a version of my greatgrandma's middle name (Anna).

We plan on having 2 more children. Whether we are able to have them naturally, with a little help, or through adoption we don't know. But we do know our family will not be complete without 2 more children.

AKA Out of Town. Which is what my husband will be on Sunday. Yes. Mother's day. URGH! He is going to Canada on Sunday. He had to go to China over Easter. I swear its like his work think ok, we have holiday coming up, we gotta send T somewhere!
I told him if he had to go somewhere on 4th of July, heads were gonna roll.

Also, we have been trying to get his work to commit to send T to KY during the 2nd week of June. This way they will give him mileage to go out there and we can not only tag along but make a quick trip to NC the week before and use the $ that his company gives him for mileage to pay for the trip. So with this Canada trip, I am hoping they will give in. Hope Hope Hope!! We have the money to go to NC without the KY trip, but we can always use that money toward's Wy's big boy room!!

Speaking of Big Boy room, I will be posting later all the stuff we plan on doing for his room soon!