So now an overdue update on the most important thing, my hair. Yes, it's growing much longer now. I even wake up with bedhead now! I have to comb it every morning after a shower to keep it down if I want it that way. Honestly, this was never so exciting to me as it is now, something is much different with me :)
We have been experimenting with spiking it up so I need to take a picture next time I spike it.
Another funny issue that has been observed is some nerve damage which affects my left eyebrow. Thus, I'm unable to lift the eyebrow, but have full functioning of the other. It's a bit uneven and looks funny when I show emotion. Just yesterday as my sister-in-law told us a story she had to laugh at my half excited face. However, if this is the only lasting damage I would be very happy with nothing to complain about. I did see my neurologist recently and he did notice some change in it, so maybe it will come back over time. The surgeon said possibly 3-4 months. Who knows?
The scariest thing perhaps was two gray hairs that I found and pulled out. My hair is just growing back and now I find gray hairs? It's odd for me because I haven't done that before. However, I have had plenty of stressful gray hair producing moments before so I suppose the time has come for them to show.
Okay, enough with the silly business with my hair. Why I think about it so much I don't know. It's just a little exciting to me I guess with all these changes. I feel like a mother watching her child grow hair except it's mine.
So, I have continued to have a lot of pain all over my body for the past few months. It basically hurts to move and getting dressed everyday was something I did not look forward to because it hurt so much. It is very odd since I don't remember this last time.
However, my endocrinologist did test my cortisol levels, which also deals with the adrenal glands somehow (I still haven't studied this one as much as everything else). It was really low in December, but he wanted to wait a little while to see if it improved at all longer after surgery. I just took the test again a few weeks ago an it turns out it was low again so he started me on some steroids.
My biggest fear with all of this is possible wait gain with the steroids. I've somehow lost my appetite recently so with walking every day for about 30 min. and not eating as much I've lost almost 30 pounds. This is huge for me since I basically gained all of my weight after the first surgery.
So I'll keep you posted on more happenings in my life. Hopefully a little more frequent than this last time:)
