January- Thyroid Awareness Month

Hello friends,

 

Today, I am posting this card as part of of a blog hop which is organized by my awesome friend , Milka to spread awareness of the need for preventive screening and early detection of thyroid disease to avoid unpleasant illnesses and dangerous complications.

Along with me there are total 26 designers from all over the world taking part in this hop. I feel honored to be part of this hop. Milka, I am thankful to you to invite me for this initiative.

The aim of the hop is to support Thyroid Awareness Month and to raise public awareness of the importance of a Thyroid Gland and problems it can cause when not working properly.Thyroid disorders pose a significant threat when prolonged or in the acute presentation, and are potentially serious disorders with symptoms that range from non-specific constitutional to subtle or frank neuropsychiatric symptoms. 

Being a Hypothyroid ( when the thyroid gland activity is abnormally low) patient for last 10 years myself, this hop is close to my heart. I am dealing with weight gain, edema, thinning hairline, dry skin, poor memory etc. I have to take my medication for the rest of my life and still have to deal with all those symptoms. I have to be very careful with my diet and constantly struggle to loose weight (Which is not happening - no matter how hard I try, I gain it back so fast - so easily) . I have to  keep adjusting the dose of the medication too. I’ve learned my body well enough to know when I’m feeling like I need to adjust medication dosage . Medicine is necessary to balance the hormone but you need yoga, meditation and exercise to keep your stress level under control. Between medication and lifestyle change I've learnt to live my life happily! So you can imagine  how crafting is helping me to deal with these crappy disease. 

So coming to the crafting part, I made this card around the sentiment. We were suppose to use the blue color, paisley and butterfly as the thyroid gland looks like butterfly. 

The butterfly is from Verve Stamps( sadly... they are no longer in business) , paisley from papertrey ink and sentiment is by MFT. 

Yes, life is tough but we are way stronger than we think! I feel Challenges are what make life interesting.

All of the details for this hop can be found here, on Milka's blog!

there are giveaways along this month long hop. Please check the blog hop order below!

• Milka Gubo (January 5th)

• Imke Ludwig (January 6th)

• Jane Taylor (January 7th)

• Kaja Vezenšek (January 8th)

• Samantha Mann (January 9th)

• Andreja Lampe (January 10th)

• Анна Коссаковская (Anna Kossakovskaya) (January 11th)

• Ksenija Rizova (January 12th)

• ValentinaBizjak (January 13th)

• Alexandra (aka Ale) Suta (January 14th)

• Kristina Pavlović (January 15th)

• Tanja Kabel (January 16th)

• Željka Jurkovic-Grizic (January 17th)

• Donna Mikasa (January 18th)

• Darnell Knauss (January 20th)

• Nonni Niskanen (January 21st)

• Larissa Walgemoed (January 22nd)

• Dunja Trautmann (January 23rd)

• Neha Bhatt (January 24th)

• Beverley Brown (January 25th)

• Ishani (January 26th)

• Maja Macura Sakač (January 27th)

• Naz Sasayakiglitter (January 28th)

• Sue Hastead (January 29th)

• Preeti Datta (aka Dutt Preety) (January 30th)

I really hope you will join our blog hop! Thank you for being here!