Well, I’m diagnosed with Graves disease. The doctor says there’s no cure but to control it we basically have to kill the thyroid and put me on synthetic thyroid hormone. He’s been pushing for the radioactive iodine treatment. When I told him today that I was rather attached to my thyroid and don’t want to kill it, and uh, could we just hurt it a little, he said that the part that is spared will become effected eventually because that’s the way it goes. I asked him if we could try the anti thyroid medication first. He said since I didn’t seem so sure we could go ahead and then cautioned that I can only take it so long without liver damage and when I go off of it I will still have the disease. It was a pretty good sell on the radioactive treatment but for at least 3 weeks I’m taking the anti thyroid pill and hope I don’t have any side effects. I already have a disease that affects only about 1% of women. It would be just like me to be the one in a hundred that has side effects. It boils down to this: I’m danged if I do and danged if I don’t. But I’m more danged if I don’t.