Life Of Michelle K

[ChrissyRyan]

Happy birthday Michelle!


Chrissy

[Northern Star Girl ✅]

@Michelle_K
Dear Michelle:
I am so very pleased that you are an active member here on the Forum.
My wish for you is that you stay healthy and safe. 
    I always look forward to your very interesting sharing and posting.

        NOW... for the other important reason that I am writing to you.
I am wishing YOU a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY
                                                         

Have a wonderful day of Birthday Celebrations on your "special day", August 15th
        ❤️
HUGS, and my best wishes,
Danielle [Northern Star Girl]
The Forum Administrator
  Direct Email: alaskandanielle@yahoo.com
                                           

[Michelle_K]

I guess it is up to me to decide if I want to thank everyone for wishing me a happy birthday. I think I quit celebrating my birthday years ago.
Reminds me of something said about someone that did not celebrate birthdays, a bet that he was at the office to collect his retirement on the day he became old enough to collect.

A thought that kind of hurt, the party that I was at and got bullied might have been a birthday party. All 4 boys were older relatives.

Change of subject:
Like I had stated, this apartment is about five miles from the VA clinic, with the crossroads mall slightly closer. Learning where to make my turns to get from place to place, starting to travel without the navigator directing.
Michelle

[Northern Star Girl ✅]

@Michelle_K

Dear Michelle:
To prevent forum members from being aware of your birthday and
offering you their kind birthday greetings... 
...your birthday date can be removed from the Forum, if you wish.

Please advise and I will take care of it for you.

Danielle [Northern Star Girl]

[Michelle_K]

Just don't know what to do with the attention. My sister's birthday is one week before mine, at some point the celebrations were merged, with her getting all the attention. And my paternal grandfather's somewhere between the two. I could say we were all partied out by the time my birthday came along.

Michelle

[davina61]

Happy birthday, just caught up with stuff.

[Michelle_K]

I only saw the meme once.

Doctor:
I spent over 6 years training to be a doctor and you only spent an hour on the internet.
Me:
I spent over 20 years living with the symptoms.

To me it becomes a waste of time going to doctor appointments and not getting any satisfaction. But to be told that estrogen would not benefit me and would be very risky shows that the doctor has not kept up with her training. I did not search for the videos that showed up in my you tube feed. One showed exactly what happened to estradiol as it went through the liver. Another was the technique used for self injection of estradiol.
I have read articles from a horse ranch complaining about how PETA had an article completely misleading about how the horses were treated. The ranch collected pregnant mare urine to be processed into premarin. I also know that bio-identical hormones are safer.
I even got a lecture about testosterone testing needing to be done in early morning. I never did get the chance to tell her that I woke up, got dressed skipping my shower, and drove directly to the hospital where I ordered a direct access test. I would guess that I had the test within a hour of waking up, maybe closer to a half hour.
Michelle

[Lori Dee ✅]

Michelle,

Here is a chart showing how various steroids are metabolized in the body. It looks complicated, but on the left side, you can see how cholesterol (bottom) and DHEAs (left) are converted into testosterone, which is then converted into estradiol (top).

https://www.ceri.com/q_v7n2q3.htm 🔗

I'm not sure if this is what you were looking for.

[Michelle_K]

 Instead of driving over an hour to get to my appointment, it only took 15 minutes. I kind of hesitate in writing this, I actually ran out of money. There was no way I could Pay for another month in that house. I spent at least a week sleeping in my car. As it turned out, my deposit covered the rent and deposit on this small studio apartment, and I think even next months rent.
 I think this is going to get rid of a lot of stress. Now I can rebuild my finances, and see about getting some things taken care of.
Michelle

[Lori Dee ✅]

Glad it is working out for you, Michelle.

I lived in a tent in the forest for six weeks, so I know the feeling of being between homes.

Were you able to keep your dolls and other projects you were working on? Are they in storage, or did you have to let them go? I really hope you could keep them.

[Michelle_K]

Finally got my yearly CT lung scan. This time it is through the VA, at the VA clinic.

Interesting is the fact that:
2024-04-24, CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION:none - Done at Meeker Memorial.
2025-05-19, CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION:Severe - Done at Meeker Memorial.
2026-06-24, CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION:none apparent - Done at VA clinic.

I'm not saying someone manipulated the data to get me on a statin, but 2025 was about the time the genetic predisposition to high cholesterol showed up in my records, without a genetic test being done. I doubt very much that 6 months on 5 mg of Rosuvastatin would reduce it from severe to none.
I still have mild emphysema listed and this time a pulmonologist has been referred.
Michelle

Just a thought that the doctor had access to the 2025-05-19 lung scan, CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION:Severe. But not to the later 2026 lung scan done at the VA. And denied my estradiol based on the scan showing severe calcification.

I did a free genetic test:
 We did not find any gene􀆟c variants that increase your risk of developing
hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, hereditary non-polyposis
colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome) or familial hypercholesterolemia
(hereditary high cholesterol).
Component Your value
DATE SAMPLE RECEIVED AT TESTING LAB 07/22/2026
FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA Not Detected
HEREDITARY BREAST AND OVARIAN CANCER
SYNDROME
Not Detected
LYNCH SYNDROME Not Detected

 Someone once stated that once wrong information gets into your records, it is difficult to remove it.
Michelle

[Lori Dee ✅]

Someone once stated that once wrong information gets into your records, it is difficult to remove it.

This is true, especially with VA medical records.
I went to the emergency room and was diagnosed with diplopia (double vision). I was evaluated by several eye doctors after it resolved. It remains in my records.

The reason is medical history, where they can say, "Oh, look, you had this three years ago; maybe it is a recurring problem." In that case, the information is valuable.

But as you stated, if the diagnosis was wrong, it remains even after the issue was corrected.