Kelly Severseike

I recently had a dream I had double vision. It was the strangest dream ever. Everything I was looking at in this dream was doubled. I woke up, trying to...

Recently, I was at the store when I came across this magazine all about thyroid health. I was waiting in line and had some time, so I flipped through it...

For a few years, while I had thyroid eye disease (TED), my eyes were so sensitive to light. To the point where going outside was impossible. I would step outside...

I remember the exact moment I knew I needed to buy some eye cream. I was at the museum with my dad 5 months after I was diagnosed with thyroid...

I had never heard of thyroid eye disease (TED) when I was diagnosed with it in the fall of 2018. I was officially diagnosed with Hashimoto’s in January of that...

Recently, my sister got married. I was her maid of honor. Being her maid of honor reminded me just how far I have come in my thyroid eye disease (TED)...

I have not worn makeup consistently in over 5 years. I was not that much of a makeup girl to begin with. So in the transition from no-thyroid eye disease...

Early on in my thyroid eye disease (TED) diagnosis, I got into using an icepack when my eyes were swollen or felt very uncomfortable. I bought an ice pack off...

Recently, my sister had an eye infection. Her eyes were irritated in a way she had not experienced before. She felt overwhelmed and annoyed by how her eyes were taking...

When I was diagnosed with thyroid eye disease (TED), everything felt different. I had an answer, a name for what I was experiencing, but I did not quite understand the...

When we think about a diagnosis, we think about the patient first. It is only natural since they are the ones directly dealing with the disease. Then there are those...

I recently had an appointment with my endocrinologist. Every time I get my thyroid labs done, I have my Graves' antibody numbers checked. This last time, they had once again...

There was no time between who I was before thyroid eye disease (TED) and who I became once I had TED. Of course, there was a time between the symptoms...

When the puffiness from the swelling first formed around my eyes, I asked someone if it was normal. They replied, "Yeah, it's a sign of getting older." I had just...

I have always been a pretty patient person. I am not usually someone who sighs to myself in a long line or gets antsy when things are taking too long...

Everyone's journey with thyroid eye disease (TED) is uniquely their own. For me, I never thought of surgery as a possibility of being part of my journey. Maybe I am...

I look in the mirror and do not recognize the person staring back at me. She is not me. She is not who I imagine I am. Her eyes are...

How you look at your eyes is not how everyone else will look at your eyes. This is something I had to remind myself of when I was in the...

Editor's Note: This is part 2 of a series. Please read part 1 here. "Do you wear glasses?" my friend asked me. She was on the phone with her then-boyfriend...

When I was a junior in high school, I failed the school vision test. I could not read the letters below a certain line from far away the way I...