Peerless
Someone suggested I meet some of my peers – women over 50 who have young children. And another suggested I find a support group for those who have Hashimoto’s. Another suggested that auto-immune diseases are going around the neighborhood and perhaps there is more than just a coincidence.
The truth is that it would be hard to find someone like me, a 53 year old with a 3 year old, who has Hashimoto’s Disease and no hair, who is building a new career, well several of them.
I have only one answer – road trip! – alone on the road is where I’ll speak to my peers – the ones whose voices are heard in the car when miles separate you from where you are coming from and where you are going, the thousand and one voices that clamor for attention with the ordinary routine of life, the ones that are silenced by the rhythm of the road.
November 19th, 2012 at 11:16 am
So there’s a word for it? I had missed this information up to now. I’m glad you know now there’s a reason for all the feelings you’ve been going through, and the hair loss. I hope the prognosis is good. Before I was 60 yrs old I never knew there was auto-immune issues. Now it seems like it’s affecting multitudes of us in some way: mine is rheumatoid arthritis. I HATE the treatment but thankful it keeps my symptoms at bay most of the time, and I only have to go through the infusions every six months.
November 29th, 2012 at 7:46 pm
Alice – I’m meeting more and more people with auto-immune in all sorts of different strains – and one thing that has become loud and clear is most of them are getting off gluten and feeling better because of it. Just a thought. It’s difficult but I’m trying it now and I do feel better.