In my last post, I said that pretty much all of the worst things in my life have happened in June. I forgot to mention that one of the absolute best things in my life happened in June, too. A year ago today to be exact. Before June 7th, 2011, I had a prolactinoma. That's a tumor that produces prolactin. If you don't know, prolactin is a hormone. These tumors are located on the pituitary gland which dangles from your brain. This tumor was the size of a garbanzo bean and so it was named Garbanzo. There was also a cyst up there and it was named Cysta Wife. She didn't do much. Just pushed on things she shouldn't have pushed on. Anyway, this tumor was a royal pain in the ass. It made me exhausted, fat, and caused some serious mood swings. This went on for years before it was discovered that these doo dads were hanging out up in my head.
On this date last year, some fine doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN knocked me out, poked through my sinuses, and extracted Garbanzo and Cysta Wife. Since then, I've dropped over 30 pounds, I wake up most days and get out of bed without wanting to cry from exhaustion, and I don't have any more mood swings than anyone else. I get home from work and do housework or yard work instead of sitting on the couch in a daze. I'm normal. My normal. I'm pretty darn happy. Life is good and a hell of a lot easier than it was a year and one day ago.
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