I got a different brand of pickles, a substandard generic brand, and they made me sick.  Not once, but twice.  The first time, I attributed it to just drinking more than a fair share of the pickle juice, sort of a "pickle overload".  The second time, I only ate two pickles (they're small) and I still got pretty darn sick, of the diarrhea variety.  ( Read more... )

I knew today would be long; I was not disappointed in that supposition.

I forgot to mention that I accidentally showed up early to yesterday's appointment.  I thought it was at 1100, but it was at 1300.  My mistake, and at least I was early instead of too late.  It was today's appointment that was at 1100, which I was thankfully reminded of through ( Read more... )

So, I'm back from the dentist ( Read more... )

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So, the appointment today was a total waste of time and hope-crusher to boot. Here's the story to date ( Read more... )

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Who would've thought such a tiny little piece of flesh could cause so much pain for so long? I wouldn't have even known it was there if it hadn't have kept hurting.


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DC, in an effort to pass the buck to someone else, was the first city to switch folks to the expanded Medicaid which will be offered under universal healthcare. Only as the bureaucracy of DC is consistantly awful, this is a quagmire of ick. First some background ( Read more... )

This entire next post is devoted entirely to the medical procedure I just had done (a colonoscopy and upper GI series), so if you are easily grossed out or simply find this stuff distasteful, STOP READING NOW. Why am I posting this for all to read? Well, it was helpful to read everyone else's colonoscopy accounts prior to my own, so I figure this ( Read more... )

I've just gotten tired of listening to the debate on healthcare in the United States when it seems like a few common sense measures would fix many of the problems. So I laid out a very non-specific plan (hell, I'm no expert on anything but running my mouth). Maybe I'm missing something of key importance. I'll let my readers be the judges ( Read more... )