Re: Chatting With Jon Gabriel
Well, yes actually, I also had a call from Jon about a week or two ago. I also had asked a question and had a reply from Jennie about setting up a time. Silly me had the day wrong with the time difference, but nevertheless I was able to ring him right back. Tee hee, he asked me if I was aware that I was phoning Australia; I had figured it was him even though I had the day wrong.
My question was about taking Synthroid (Thyroid Replacement Hormone) having had Graves disease nearly 30 years ago. Apparently it is easier to treat Graves disease by either removing or "knocking out" one's thyroid. The preferred treatment method where I live, at that time was to "grind it to a halt" with radio-active idoine cocktail.
Jon isn't familiar with this condition and treatment so he referred me to a Dr. Liebowitz, who has a blogtalk radio program on Thursday nights in California. I live on the east coast of USA and haven't worked up the gumption to try to stay awake and make a call to that radio show so late at night...heck I'm one of those people who can barely make it past the shoulders in Jon's recording!
So while Jon was very friendly and caring, it was a tad bit disappointing that he didn't have any pearls of his own wisdom to share with me, but he did ask me to tell Dr. Liebowitz that he says hello.
Jon did ask me if I have sleep apnea. Since I don't really snore much, I doubt that I do. (My naturally slender hubby did though for a while, but he seems to be better - get this - after losing a few pounds/kilos! The skinny turkey always loses weight when I'm trying to, LOL).
Anyhow, I was really touched that he wanted to call me, I can see that answering questions by phone is easier than typing out a bunch of e-mail replies. I will report back when I finally do stay awake long enough to get in touch with Dr. Liebowitz.
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