Update: Vampire says that I have hyperthyroidism. I knew this. I was born with 1/2 of a thyroid. Freaked my endocrinologist out when he first saw my scans. He said he had never seen that before. So see? I'm special and unique. My doctor told me so. ;) Was doing some musing today and I thought about my childhood. How my mother was not a warm fuzzy mother. No hugs, no "I love you's", no feeling loved by her. I always felt I was a mistake to her. When she told me that she left me alone after I took a bottle of pills when I was 17, I knew in my soul, that I was never truly wanted by her. Honestly, I believe she did not want a daughter at all but adopted me to make my dad happy. They adopted my brother 4 years after me and he was the apple of her eye and always has been. I was the "trouble child". She would always say "Tracey is so moody". Now that I think back on it, yes I...