Okay, so I still feel completely overwhelmed by Everything and am nearly paralysed by derisiophobia, but since I haven't been able to figure out how to delete this account... well, sometimes you just have to say poot on it.

Today is the first day in the wake of my first biopsy. Hypothyroidism, the doctor says, but probably not cancer.

It's done with needles, you know. "This may be a bit uncomfortable," said the doctor, a PhD in medicine, but a Master of understatement.