I am now effectively unemployed until further notice ( Read more... )

My Sweetie's MRI came back clean. No sign of cancer or stroke, which were the two biggest fears. There are still a couple of symptoms not fully explained by a diagnosis of bell's palsy, but at this point they're treating him as if he had bell's palsy. This means prednisone, which is most commonly used as an asthma medication. It's a steroid, and ( Read more... )

Some of you may not know the story behind my username. The summer between first and second year university, I started fainting for apparently no reason. Because university students are notoriously sensitive people, I became known as Flop in many of my circles, for rather obvious reasons. There are still people who know me from that era, who have ( Read more... )