Katie is on her last day of her first FULL week of school! Last week, on her 2nd day of K – my Aunt and Mom came to the bus stop with me to take pics/videos of Katie coming off the bus, but when the bus stopped and she came off … she was crying. She had wet herself on the bus. Fast forward to this week and I think it was Monday? Her teacher emailed me and said she asked the kids if they needed to go potty before lunch and Katie said no. Well – she did and she soaked herself, so they changed her. Katie’s scared of the really loud flushing toilets and I let her teacher know that. She wouldn’t use the classroom bathroom, then she started refusing the quieter toilets, so Wednesday and Thursday they had to take her to the pre-k room to use the portable potty. No, no, no. She uses the bathroom fine at home, so I told her teacher that lately she’s been saying she doesn’t need to go potty at my Mom’s house and my Mom has to be firm with her and tell her to GO. She just makes excuses – so the counselor talked with Katie and we’ve all been working together to talk to her and she actually used the classroom bathroom yesterday! WOOOHOO. I hope it keeps happening because we told her she can’t go to school if she doesn’t use the big potty at school, and it’s true – in able for them to be in K at that school they have to be able to use the potty on their own and she can do that, but just needed to get her to go.

My saliva testing kit arrived at the lab yesterday! I tracked it online through UPS, so I’m hoping to have results back and get an email from my Naturopath by the end of next week?! I HOPE SO. I’m so ready to see the result levels. If you remember me mentioning the amino drink I bought last week? Well, it wasn’t the same one I got before. In fact, IT DOES HAVE CAFFEINE IN IT, AND LOTS OF IT. I totally did not know because it doesn’t say on the label, until I looked it up. YIKES, no wonder I had been having bad symptoms… I’m not taking that anymore, but my body was so used to the caffeine that I switched to the Amino Energy, like I used to drink and just lower amounts, to try to wean back off the caffeine. Ugh, I feel like such a dummy. Now that I’m off that other product that had lots of misc stuff and caffeine in it – most of the severe symptoms went away and my T4 meds seem to be helping a *little* more! I still feel bad tho. I really think I need to be put on Cortef to give my body that extra cortisol. We’ll see what the results say.

What else? UMM, we are having a weather cool spell and it is NICE! However, still getting random rain. UGH. College is still going great & I’m loving the Health and Wellness classes I have been taking. I’m off to take a hot bath and get some stuff done, before playing a bit of Lord of the Rings Online! HAPPY FRIIIIIIIIDAY!!!!!!! Sending positive vibes to ya & wishing everyone an awesome weekend.