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Having suffered with an overactive thyroid for many years, the medication just wasn't enough anymore. Very sadly missed R.I.P. Darling boy. 14 yrs and 4 months old. 1.8.2006 -31.12.2020
Her tiredness and lack of appetite over the last 3 weeks have worried me a little. The vet has now found out that her thyroid medication is now too high, even though the dosage has been right for the last 2 years. Now i hope that she will soon become more active again. Fortunately, she has gained 300g in weight in the last 6 months.
I'm really running out shots to post! I better get myself out tomorrow and or Sunday to shoot some new stuff!
An update on my cat Monster - They think he has a thyroid problem which is causing issues with his heart rythms. There are more technical terms for everything, but that's it in a nutshell. Tomorrow I take him for more bloodwork, then they are going to do a T3 suppression test on Tuesday. Hopefully this will be the issue and it can be resolved with thyroid medication.
Flickr Friday - Fur - 12 May 2023.
A portrait of my buddy Boush (short for Taboushka) who was 20 years old in February, has few teeth, is deaf, has kidney and thyroid issues. He came to us as his previous long term owner was moving into a care home. If he did not get another home, the unthinkable was going to happen, so we took him in!
We were told he was not well but that was nearly two years ago. He has settled well and seems relatively fit. Despite his condition and seeing the vet regularly, he does not seem to moan much and is so giving and affectionate, a wonderful addition to the family.
Sadly Boush passed away on 09 Oct 2023, a great loss.
ZLATIBOR is a mountain of exquisite beauty. It has pleasant and mild climate, large clearings, exuberant pastures intersected with mountains with mountain streams and pine trees - which this mountain is named for.
The average hight is about 1000m above sea level.
Mountain and sea gulfs encounter here which speed up the curing and the recovering from large number of lung and heart illnesses, especially from illnesses of thyroid gland and anemia.
The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people.
The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was “the Peninsula of Haemus” (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou).
The Balkans are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slavs, an area where Orthodox and Catholic Christianity met, as well as the meeting point between Islam and Christianity.
The Balkans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic, Romance, and Turkic languages, as well as Greek, Albanian, and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Uzes, Pechenegs, Cumans, Avars, Celts, Germans, and various Germanic tribes.
The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe.
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, this region was home to Greek city-states, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Epirotes, Mollosians, Thessalians, Dacians and other ancient groups. Later the Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman culture and the Latin language but significant parts still remained under classical Greek influence. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
Here are pictures of Cosmo the cat taken during the month of March 2023 at home in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He is approaching his 17th birthday in early May, but last year, the vet noticed all sorts of old cat problems. He has cataracts, is on thyroid medicine and eating wet food - and that makes him very happy. Recently, he had a sore over his right eye. We are watching it and hoping it goes away.
3 years ago on April 30 I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Im different now, in good and not so good ways, but I'm happy and I'm thankful and sometimes that's enough.
Sorry,I've been returning comments slowly the past few days . Thyroid medication,and blood sugar problems are making me shaky,and very tired,so it's really hard to be online .All I want to do is sleep,and I find it hard to even do that. I will catch up with all of you as soon as I'm able .
Hope you all have a great weekend,and coming week. I look forward to getting back to visit each one of you to see what you've posted.
Thank you all for your comments. God bless you...Joan
You can see how small Milu is next to big boy Kaiser. This also lets me know that she's unwell as she would never sleep near the other cats if she felt alright. The update is that she was kept in overnight - she was given laxatives and pain killers. She still hadn't eaten or passed a stool but the vet thought it best for her to come home as she was so stressed being there. Sure enough she ate a small amount on her return and went to the toilet. However, the bad news is that her thyroid levels are dangerously high so her medication has been change again. Unfortunately, the vet was not that positive so we will see how she goes over the next couple of days. Hopefully, she can turn a corner but it is a case of waiting to see what happens next to our sweet little girl
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ZLATIBOR is a mountain of exquisite beauty. It has pleasant and mild climate, large clearings, exuberant pastures intersected with mountains with mountain streams and pine trees - which this mountain is named for.
The average hight is about 1000m above sea level.
Mountain and sea gulfs encounter here which speed up the curing and the recovering from large number of lung and heart illnesses, especially from illnesses of thyroid gland and anemia.
The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people.
The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was “the Peninsula of Haemus” (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou).
The Balkans are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slavs, an area where Orthodox and Catholic Christianity met, as well as the meeting point between Islam and Christianity.
The Balkans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic, Romance, and Turkic languages, as well as Greek, Albanian, and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Uzes, Pechenegs, Cumans, Avars, Celts, Germans, and various Germanic tribes.
The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe.
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, this region was home to Greek city-states, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Epirotes, Mollosians, Thessalians, Dacians and other ancient groups. Later the Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman culture and the Latin language but significant parts still remained under classical Greek influence. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
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ZLATIBOR is a mountain of exquisite beauty. It has pleasant and mild climate, large clearings, exuberant pastures intersected with mountains with mountain streams and pine trees - which this mountain is named for.
The average hight is about 1000m above sea level.
Mountain and sea gulfs encounter here which speed up the curing and the recovering from large number of lung and heart illnesses, especially from illnesses of thyroid gland and anemia.
The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people.
The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was “the Peninsula of Haemus” (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou).
The Balkans are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slavs, an area where Orthodox and Catholic Christianity met, as well as the meeting point between Islam and Christianity.
The Balkans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic, Romance, and Turkic languages, as well as Greek, Albanian, and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Uzes, Pechenegs, Cumans, Avars, Celts, Germans, and various Germanic tribes.
The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe.
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, this region was home to Greek city-states, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Epirotes, Mollosians, Thessalians, Dacians and other ancient groups. Later the Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman culture and the Latin language but significant parts still remained under classical Greek influence. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
Merci à ceux qui ont pris des nouvelles de Pistache.
Hier elle a eu une prise de sang, qui a l'étonnement général était très bon au niveau des valeurs thyroïdiennes. La dernière fois elles étaient mauvaises, mais je soupçonne qu'elle avait recraché son médicament (la prise de sang doit être faite 4 h après la prise du médicament).
Ca pourrait sembler être une bonne nouvelle, mais du coup ce n'est pas l'explication de son état : elle est déshydratée alors qu'elle boit beaucoup et a encore maigri (elle pèse 2kg390). Ses valeurs rénales sont parfaites elles aussi. Du coup il y a suspiçion de cancer. Je ne vais pas lui faire subir d'autres examens. Elle sera mise lundi sous cortisone en traitement palliatif. Bien entendu je ne la laisserai pas souffrir, mais là elle vient de faire un petit tour au jardin, donc tant qu'elle a la volonté de vivre on se battra ensemble. Maintenant la vétérinare était pessimiste, nous nous approchons inexorablement de la fin......
Thank you to those who have asked me news about Pistache.
Yesterday she had a blood test, which to everyone's astonishment was very good in terms of the thyroid values. The last time they were bad, but I suspect that she had spat out her medicine (the blood test must be done 4 hours after taking the medicine).
It might seem like good news, but now there isn’t any explanation of her condition: she is dehydrated even though she drinks a lot and has lost weight again (she weighs 2kg390). Her kidney values are also perfect. So there is suspicion of cancer. I'm not going to put her through more tests. She will be put on cortisone on Monday for palliative treatment. Of course I won't let her suffer, but she just came back from a little walk in the garden, so as long as she has the will to live, we'll fight together. Now the vet was pessimistic, we are inexorably approaching the end......
Pistache est allée hier chez sa vétérinaire pour le rappel de vaccin et une prise de sang de contrôle. A part ses valeurs thyroïdiennes un peu hors limite malgré son traitement, le reste de sa prise de sang était parfaite. Néanmoins comme elle a encore maigri (elle ne pèse plus que 3 kg 500), on va essayer pendant un mois d'augmenter un peu son traitement pour voir si elle va reprendre du poids. Elle devra refaire une prise de sang dans un mois.
Pistache went to her vet yesterday for the vaccine booster and a check-up blood test. Apart from her thyroid values which were a little off limits despite her treatment, the rest of her blood test was perfect. However, as she has lost weight again (she weighs only 3.5 kg / 6.6 lbs), we will try for a month to increase her treatment a little to see if she will regain weight. She will have to have another blood test in a month.
Today Tim and I went to our main hospital as Tim had to have a routine ultrasound scan (a follow up to the surgery he had on his thyroid in 2019). Although most of the original building has gone and been rebuilt (apart from the red brick building), it still bring back memories of visiting my brother there when his diabetes etc were playing him up. It's the beautiful pine trees that I am always drawn to. I've been there a few times for myself, including when I had my brain haemorrhage, and I often accompanied my Mum when she had to go to the Eye Dept there.
The Queen Alexandra Hospital (commonly known as QA Hospital, or simply QA) in Cosham, Portsmouth, is one of the NHS hospitals serving the city of Portsmouth and the surrounding area. There are several small treatment outstations which have been opened to relieve the overload at the QA Hospital. It is publicly owned and is administered by the Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and has a Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit attached.Originally a military hospital, The Queen Alexandra (named for Alexandra of Denmark, King Edward VII's consort) was built between 1904 and 1908 to replace an earlier hospital which stood in Lion Street in Portsea, Portsmouth. The original buildings were of red brick construction, and the site was in a largely rural area, linked to Portsmouth and the surrounding villages (now suburbs) by a tram service.
Later in the 1960s, it was announced that the Queen Alexandra would become a district general hospital, complete with an Accident and Emergency department. This involved the construction of several new buildings, which began in 1968 with an eye department, a training school for nurses and two three-storey blocks for staff accommodation. A further two accommodation blocks, this time nine storeys high, were added later, being completed in 1976. Only two of the planned three new ward blocks were built (Edited from Wikipedia)
In the background, on the hill, you can see Fort Widley.
Fort Widley is one of the forts built on top of Portsdown Hill between 1860 and 1868 on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom. It was designed, along with the other Palmerston Forts atop Portsdown, to protect Portsmouth from attack from the rear.
ZLATIBOR is a mountain of exquisite beauty. It has pleasant and mild climate, large clearings, exuberant pastures intersected with mountains with mountain streams and pine trees - which this mountain is named for.
The average hight is about 1000m above sea level.
Mountain and sea gulfs encounter here which speed up the curing and the recovering from large number of lung and heart illnesses, especially from illnesses of thyroid gland and anemia.
The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people.
The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was “the Peninsula of Haemus” (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou).
The Balkans are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slavs, an area where Orthodox and Catholic Christianity met, as well as the meeting point between Islam and Christianity.
The Balkans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic, Romance, and Turkic languages, as well as Greek, Albanian, and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Uzes, Pechenegs, Cumans, Avars, Celts, Germans, and various Germanic tribes.
The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe.
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, this region was home to Greek city-states, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Epirotes, Mollosians, Thessalians, Dacians and other ancient groups. Later the Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman culture and the Latin language but significant parts still remained under classical Greek influence. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
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ZLATIBOR is a mountain of exquisite beauty. It has pleasant and mild climate, large clearings, exuberant pastures intersected with mountains with mountain streams and pine trees - which this mountain is named for.
The average hight is about 1000m above sea level.
Mountain and sea gulfs encounter here which speed up the curing and the recovering from large number of lung and heart illnesses, especially from illnesses of thyroid gland and anemia.
The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people.
The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was “the Peninsula of Haemus” (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou).
The Balkans are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slavs, an area where Orthodox and Catholic Christianity met, as well as the meeting point between Islam and Christianity.
The Balkans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic, Romance, and Turkic languages, as well as Greek, Albanian, and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Uzes, Pechenegs, Cumans, Avars, Celts, Germans, and various Germanic tribes.
The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe.
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, this region was home to Greek city-states, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Epirotes, Mollosians, Thessalians, Dacians and other ancient groups. Later the Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman culture and the Latin language but significant parts still remained under classical Greek influence. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
Female Williamson's Sapsucker, Sphyrapicus thyroides nataliae, 9 in. / 22.86 cm. UNCOMMON. RARE locally. Nests mainly in montane Pondarosa Pine forests, or in adjacent aspens. Wanders to lower elevations and other forest habitat in winter.
Kennedy Park, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA.
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ZLATIBOR is a mountain of exquisite beauty. It has pleasant and mild climate, large clearings, exuberant pastures intersected with mountains with mountain streams and pine trees - which this mountain is named for.
The average hight is about 1000m above sea level.
Mountain and sea gulfs encounter here which speed up the curing and the recovering from large number of lung and heart illnesses, especially from illnesses of thyroid gland and anemia.
The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people.
The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was “the Peninsula of Haemus” (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou).
The Balkans are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slavs, an area where Orthodox and Catholic Christianity met, as well as the meeting point between Islam and Christianity.
The Balkans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic, Romance, and Turkic languages, as well as Greek, Albanian, and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Uzes, Pechenegs, Cumans, Avars, Celts, Germans, and various Germanic tribes.
The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe.
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, this region was home to Greek city-states, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Epirotes, Mollosians, Thessalians, Dacians and other ancient groups. Later the Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman culture and the Latin language but significant parts still remained under classical Greek influence. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
When we put our cares in His hands He puts His peace in our hearts.
ANNOUNCEMENT: On Wednesday July 10th I will have surgery to have my Thyroid Gland removed!! I am not sure how long I will be off Flickr but it shouldn't be long!! ;)
I've been reading up on the health benefits of eating seaweed. Seaweed was once a commonly eaten (free) food stuff in Ireland but then it fell out of favour. It is still routinely added to animal feeds. Seaweed contains many important trace minerals, vitamins, iodine & tyrosine, which supports thyroid function.
Three or 4 years ago I received a 40g pack of a dried purple seaweed called Dillisk, produced by this company wildirishseaweeds.com/ It was part of a hamper, along with Achill Island smoked sea salt & various packs of delicious smoked salmon. My parents very kindly treat us to packs of smoked salmon from The Burren Smokehouse in Co. Clare every Christmas (see photo in first comment box)
So, after all these years of looking at the packet of seaweed in the cupboard (and having no idea how to use it), I finally took the plunge. I added some to a stir fry & discovered it's actually really nice.
For Christmas I suggested my sister treat us to a "Seaweed Starter pack" from the seaweed company. It contains 7 different types & a recipe booklet. The seaweeds are harvested by hand along the Wild Atlantic Way. I shall perhaps photograph the other 6 packets on wet days 😂
Submission by artist Adine Schoonmaker for the brooklynartproject.com juried exhibition for Burning Man 2008 with wdydwyd.com.
"I spent most of my 20's suffering from undiagnosed Thyroid cancer and my early 30's in treatment and recovery. I began to feel normal and pretty and "alive" by my late 30's. I am now experiencing the excitement and passion and attention that i should have been enjoying in my youth. But now that i am "blooming", i am also noticeably aging. I do what i do because i still want to feel alive when men stop noticing me."
Zac is very much back in the game thanks to twice-daily medication. It turns out that his thyroid gland has been under-active, possibly for years, which would partially explain his huge weight gain with his previous master. (60 kilos back in the day when I collected him from the rescue kennels!) Getting him down to 35-ish kilos and keeping him there demands consistent vigilance and accurate scales, but he's worth it!
Copyright Susan Ogden
September and October have the most magnificent skies here on the Banks! The sun and the clouds, that Carolina Blue showing off the ocean colors ... just amazing!
i have had such a busy month...with all the weather happening and having my mom here to keep her out of harms way in Florida. I should be taking her home next week and accessing the situation there. I have also had the stress of Bubba the Beach Cat being under the weather...diagnosed with hyperthyroid and then having a reaction to the meds and having to change to a no iodine diet...and still he may have to have a treatment that is going to cost me a bundle. Hoping and praying the diet will work to keep the thyroid from making too much thyroid hormone. Given the fact that he is not your average cat, i am a bit afraid the food may not work...he is one of only 2-3% of cats that the medicine he WAS on causes a reaction to. :(
Hoping for a somewhat calm and quiet fall and winter, teaching some evening art classes at my house...and seeking a gallery that will take my photography for spring,...
Hope all my friends on Flickr are well and look forward to seeing your work and getting some time to actually sit and look through it all and comment...sorry have been MIA.
What a lovely day for a birthday! Tim decided he would take the day off and we spent a few hours in Chichester, where we had lunch in Crispins and Tim admired a motorbike!!
Quite a lot has happened since Tim's last birthday - radiotherapy on a lymphoma and surgery on a lump in his thyroid, but he has come through and we are making the most of life!
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Happy birthday to my dearest Ana..:)))
ZLATIBOR is a mountain of exquisite beauty. It has pleasant and mild climate, large clearings, exuberant pastures intersected with mountains with mountain streams and pine trees - which this mountain is named for.
The average hight is about 1000m above sea level.
Mountain and sea gulfs encounter here which speed up the curing and the recovering from large number of lung and heart illnesses, especially from illnesses of thyroid gland and anemia.
The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people.
The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was “the Peninsula of Haemus” (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou).
The Balkans are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slavs, an area where Orthodox and Catholic Christianity met, as well as the meeting point between Islam and Christianity.
The Balkans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic, Romance, and Turkic languages, as well as Greek, Albanian, and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Uzes, Pechenegs, Cumans, Avars, Celts, Germans, and various Germanic tribes.
The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe.
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, this region was home to Greek city-states, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Epirotes, Mollosians, Thessalians, Dacians and other ancient groups. Later the Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman culture and the Latin language but significant parts still remained under classical Greek influence. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
Some artwork from last summer! Tim had a bad run of cancers in 2019 (the year my Mum died - I thought 2020 would turn things around, but no, the pandemic hit!!) One of the cancers Tim had was a Non-Hodgkins lymphoma and they used radiotherapy to zap it away. This is the mask he had to wear for the treatment. They gave it to him to take away and I decided to paint it!
Tim's doing well now but they are keeping an eye on him as there is something showing up on his last scan on his thyroid - it might be scar tissue from the surgery he had done but they are monitoring things.
I have been battling my thyroid hormones for a while now... I feel sad, and depressed lately.... I dont feel like doing anything, I just want to crawl in bed and stay there.... finally getting back on health insurance this december.... so I'll get this hormonal problem fixed soon hopefully....
have a happy wednesday everyone... and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
coming U N D O N E {July 28 // 212}
I've been thinking a lot about where I have come from, lost opportunities, change and who I'd like to be many years from now...
...There use to be a boy on the bus. On that bus we were friends, but on the school playground we were strangers. I was ashamed if my friends knew that we were friends. The day he was moving far, far away, he brought it up with me. I remember the movements of his face as he said each word; I remember exactly what he said to me and the disappointment in his voice. This boy will never know that from that day forward, I never lived two lives -- my friends on the bus were my friends on the playground. This boy's name was Mark, and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't remember this moment.
It is weird the memories we hold onto, the thoughts we think of each day.
Today I felt like my mother's H E A R T. It is hard to describe what exactly that means beyond the feeling. It is a feeling of wonder, curiosity, happiness and worry about all the people you've encountered in your life that you couldn't hold onto beyond the moment you had them. It is about missing those people; it is about letting words go unspoken in the presence of one another. Its about letting words out; letting feelings go; it is not about sacrificing your future; its about understanding who you were with these people, what you meant to them and what they mean to you. It is regret; it is struggle; it is the inability to fill your heart with others. Its disappointment, its wishing you were that much more stronger; its wishing things don't change. It is wishing you had your mother's heart.
We are composed of so many different types of living, independent cells that somehow live in a symbiotic relationship, capable of producing the same singular emotion together.
I had this fairy tale growing up, that my life could be perfect if I planned and was careful enough. I would never make a mistake, never fail, never be misunderstood, hurt or frightened by what was to come. I realized life doesn't work that way. It is messy and I just have to climb in it with my boots pulled up high, wearing my rain jacket, hoping for the best while I yodel with my heart in hand.
David Thoreau once said 'Heaven is under our feet as well as over our head.'
I see heaven in my family and friends because they are the foundation from which I stand on to reach the stars above. I wonder, if one day when I look back on my life I realize it was never about the big picture, it was really about the moments. And maybe one day I'll think back and string all those moments together and realize when I add them up that my life is more meaningful than I could have possibly dreamed of.
Just wait downtown, I'll be there. I just need a moment.
She had a good vet visit, calm with the vet and tech. She got an A+ today on her report card. Thyroid level is down & in normal range so this dose of methimazole is working. Kidney tests are also good. Oh, and she gained back some of her weight, weighs 9.5 lbs now. So proud of my girl!
Sandy wasn't our cat but belonged to neighbours across the road. However, I often looked after him when his owners were away and he spent many happy hours dozing in our kitchen or wandering down the road to see what everyone was up to. The local primary schoolchildren adored him and he would often place himself out on the pavement or in front of the school gate at school out time or first thing in the morning. Sometimes as many as six children might be around him patting his head and talking to him -and he loved it!
Sadly, Sandy had a thyroid problem and despite tablets he gradually lost interest in food (although he could choose from an extensive menu!)
Sandy died in his sleep at his home on Sunday night -a well-loved "community cat".
This is Sandy where he shouldn't have been, on our kitchen table -with some editing. He was about 16-17 years old but he had a colourful history which included a life in London, going stray for months and being returned to his original owners after being in an accident, moving to Eastbourne -and finally deciding to move in next door to his original owners when they got another cat and a dog.
ZLATIBOR is a mountain of exquisite beauty. It has pleasant and mild climate, large clearings, exuberant pastures intersected with mountains with mountain streams and pine trees - which this mountain is named for.
The average hight is about 1000m above sea level.
Mountain and sea gulfs encounter here which speed up the curing and the recovering from large number of lung and heart illnesses, especially from illnesses of thyroid gland and anemia.
The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people.
The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was “the Peninsula of Haemus” (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou).
The Balkans are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slavs, an area where Orthodox and Catholic Christianity met, as well as the meeting point between Islam and Christianity.
The Balkans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic, Romance, and Turkic languages, as well as Greek, Albanian, and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Uzes, Pechenegs, Cumans, Avars, Celts, Germans, and various Germanic tribes.
The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe.
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, this region was home to Greek city-states, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Epirotes, Mollosians, Thessalians, Dacians and other ancient groups. Later the Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman culture and the Latin language but significant parts still remained under classical Greek influence. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
Our 8 year old Saint Bernard, Gracie.
For the last month or so, things have been really rough for Gracie, and us. She started having trouble walking, and despite medication, it got progressively worse until she just couldn’t manage any more. We were referred to veterinary specialists, who after tests and scans, diagnosed a blown disc in her spine near the neck. This was operated on a few weeks ago and she has progressively got better, recovering well and nearly back to her good old self.
However, last week, tests carried out at the same time also revealed she had thyroid cancer, and it was not long after this devastating news that I took this picture.
She has since been back to the specialists again for further tests and scans, and they are confident that the cancer is confined, so she will undergo surgery again next Monday to remove it.
Fingers crossed, she will be back on the road to recovery by Christmas, and a great gift to us all.
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Happy Macro Mondays everyone.
Haha - kelp does have all kinds of medicinal uses, iodine, vitamins, obesity fighter, thyroid regulator and is in Benni's dog food. I've tried chewing on leaves and it basically tastes like salt. Very hard to chew up and swallow in its natural form.
Mostly I like watching it swirl around in the ocean but I have seen kelp being harvested. Giant kelp can grow 1 meter per day and is one of the fastest growing organisms on Earth.
ZLATIBOR is a mountain of exquisite beauty. It has pleasant and mild climate, large clearings, exuberant pastures intersected with mountains with mountain streams and pine trees - which this mountain is named for.
The average hight is about 1000m above sea level.
Mountain and sea gulfs encounter here which speed up the curing and the recovering from large number of lung and heart illnesses, especially from illnesses of thyroid gland and anemia.
The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people.
The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was “the Peninsula of Haemus” (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou).
The Balkans are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slavs, an area where Orthodox and Catholic Christianity met, as well as the meeting point between Islam and Christianity.
The Balkans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic, Romance, and Turkic languages, as well as Greek, Albanian, and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Uzes, Pechenegs, Cumans, Avars, Celts, Germans, and various Germanic tribes.
The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe.
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, this region was home to Greek city-states, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Epirotes, Mollosians, Thessalians, Dacians and other ancient groups. Later the Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman culture and the Latin language but significant parts still remained under classical Greek influence. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
PLEASE, no multi invitations, glitters or self promotion in your comments, they will be deleted. My photos are FREE for anyone to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks - NONE OF MY PICTURES ARE HDR.
Like this old fishing boat I am in need of repair, I am having my thyroid removed (Monday) 9 January at 11am, so I do not know when I will be back on line. It will be at least 2 -3 days but could be longer, depends how I feel and when they let me out of the hospital. I will do my best to post a update on this picture, or a new one, ASAP, if at all possible. Have a great day and keep smiling.
I discovered a lump on her throat...very likely thyroid cancer. She is having it removed tomorrow morning. Prognosis looks good. The lump is small, unattached and chest X-ray looked good.
ZLATIBOR is a mountain of exquisite beauty. It has pleasant and mild climate, large clearings, exuberant pastures intersected with mountains with mountain streams and pine trees - which this mountain is named for.
The average hight is about 1000m above sea level.
Mountain and sea gulfs encounter here which speed up the curing and the recovering from large number of lung and heart illnesses, especially from illnesses of thyroid gland and anemia.
The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people.
The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was “the Peninsula of Haemus” (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou).
The Balkans are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slavs, an area where Orthodox and Catholic Christianity met, as well as the meeting point between Islam and Christianity.
The Balkans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic, Romance, and Turkic languages, as well as Greek, Albanian, and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Uzes, Pechenegs, Cumans, Avars, Celts, Germans, and various Germanic tribes.
The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe.
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, this region was home to Greek city-states, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Epirotes, Mollosians, Thessalians, Dacians and other ancient groups. Later the Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman culture and the Latin language but significant parts still remained under classical Greek influence. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
ZLATIBOR is a mountain of exquisite beauty. It has pleasant and mild climate, large clearings, exuberant pastures intersected with mountains with mountain streams and pine trees - which this mountain is named for.
The average hight is about 1000m above sea level.
Mountain and sea gulfs encounter here which speed up the curing and the recovering from large number of lung and heart illnesses, especially from illnesses of thyroid gland and anemia.
The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people.
The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was “the Peninsula of Haemus” (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou).
The Balkans are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slavs, an area where Orthodox and Catholic Christianity met, as well as the meeting point between Islam and Christianity.
The Balkans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic, Romance, and Turkic languages, as well as Greek, Albanian, and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Uzes, Pechenegs, Cumans, Avars, Celts, Germans, and various Germanic tribes.
The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe.
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, this region was home to Greek city-states, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Epirotes, Mollosians, Thessalians, Dacians and other ancient groups. Later the Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman culture and the Latin language but significant parts still remained under classical Greek influence. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
Here are pictures of Cosmo the cat taken during the months of August through November 2022 at home in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He is a good looking 16 year old cat, but this year, the vet found all sorts of old cat problems. He has cataracts, is on thyroid medicine and eating wet food - and that makes him very happy. Also some pictures here of his brother Runyon.
אולי "המצב" אינו אחראי על איך שאת מרגישה וזאת היא בלוטת התריס? או אולי תופעות הקשורות לפיברומיאלגיה? =>
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דר נורברט קורלנד מחלוצי המטפלים בפיברומיאלגיה תפקוד בלוטת התריס. באמצעות גישה טיפולית ייחודית מאפשר דר נורברט למטופליו לחזור לתפקד בחיי היומיום.
For any of you who have been following Willy's progress after his diagnosis of hyperthyroidism - Here he is feeling much better & hugging a cushion.
You can tell it's 'his cushion' by all the snags in the fabric - & just look what he's done to my old lampshade's tassels!
I apologize for being so far behind on my 52 weeks. Between some camera problems/computer, getting sick, and being out of town, I'm finally able to upload something for you.
This post is not only for the 52 weeks group, but it also serves as a cry for help. We are STILL stumped with Dakota's hair loss. Her body hair has returned to normal (more or less) however her nose continues to get worse.
To recap, we've ruled out mange, thyroid issues, autoimmune disorders, ringworm, and hormonal disorders. She has started to itch her nose just a little, however the appearance of the area has not changed (aside from expanding). Still no inflamation, blisters, or anything that would indicate some sort of trauma. Antibiotics did not work.
Please see below for additional pictures and information.
About 5 months ago I received a diagnosis that finally explained my symptoms. In a way it was a relief to hear the doctor's words, but more so it was a heavy realization that none of this would go away.
I was diagnosed with Hoshimoto's disease, a genetic autoimmune disease that attacks the thyroid. The thyroid gland, which is part the endocrine system, produces hormones that coordinate many of the body's activities.
Its unfortunate to accept that extreme exhaustion, anxiety, depression, immune attacks, nausea, and sickness are what both my present and future look like. My symptoms will maintain or get worse. Some days feel normal and easy but most take more effort than they used to.
Despite this, I do not want to look at my life through the lens of limitation. I may be cold and sleepy all the time, I may not be able to "handle" as much as other people, but I will still live this life that God gave me no matter my circumstance.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11
Pripyat, Ukraine
Outside of Chernobyl
I was incredibly fortunate enough to visit the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone this May 2018. Talk about a surreal experience.
I remember being in High School when the US and the rest of the world first hear about the disaster days after it occurred on April 26, 1986.
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was the #1 place on my bucket list of historic and abandoned places to visit and photograph. Chernobyl did not disappoint. So much to see and so little time.
Something I was not expecting, but I should have, was the dead silence along with the fragrant smell of fresh lilacs throughout the area.
If anyone has any questions, please post them up here and I'll do my best to answer them. I am thinking of putting together a show somewhere at some point in the hopes of being able to include the other photographers and videographers that also attended. I'm thinking of you Gallery X
Some history on the location and the event from The History Channel Website:
"April 26, 1986
On this day in 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident to date occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear plant near Kiev in Ukraine. The full toll from this disaster is still being tallied, but experts believe that thousands of people died and as many as 70,000 suffered severe poisoning. In addition, a large area of land may not be livable for as much as 150 years. The 18-mile radius around Chernobyl was home to almost 150,000 people who had to be permanently relocated.
The Soviet Union built the Chernobyl plant, which had four 1,000-megawatt reactors, in the town of Pripyat. At the time of the explosion, it was one of the largest and oldest nuclear power plants in the world. The explosion and subsequent meltdown of one reactor was a catastrophic event that directly affected hundreds of thousands of people. Still, the Soviet government kept its own people and the rest of the world in the dark about the accident until days later.
At first, the Soviet government only asked for advice on how to fight graphite fires and acknowledged the death of two people. It soon became apparent, however, that the Soviets were covering up a major accident and had ignored their responsibility to warn both their own people and surrounding nations. Two days after the explosion, Swedish authorities began measuring dangerously high levels of radioactivity in their atmosphere.
Years later, the full story was finally released. Workers at the plant were performing tests on the system. They shut off the emergency safety systems and the cooling system, against established regulations, in preparation for the tests. Even when warning signs of dangerous overheating began to appear, the workers failed to stop the test. Xenon gases built up and at 1:23 a.m. the first explosion rocked the reactor. A total of three explosions eventually blew the 1,000-ton steel top right off of the reactor.
A huge fireball erupted into the sky. Flames shot 1,000 feet into the air for two days, as the entire reactor began to melt down. Radioactive material was thrown into the air like fireworks. Although firefighting was futile, Pripyat’s 40,000 people were not evacuated until 36 hours after the explosion. Potentially lethal rain fell as the fires continued for eight days. Dikes were built at the Pripyat River to contain damage from contaminated water run-off and the people of Kiev were warned to stay indoors as a radioactive cloud headed their way.
On May 9, workers began encasing the reactor in concrete. Later, Hans Blix of the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that approximately 200 people were directly exposed and that 31 had died immediately at Chernobyl. The clean-up effort and the general radioactive exposure in the region, however, would prove to be even more deadly. Some reports estimate that as many as 4,000 clean-up workers died from radiation poisoning. Birth defects among people living in the area have increased dramatically. Thyroid cancer has increased tenfold in Ukraine since the accident."