Me, over the past couple of months: Snookie, if your gallbladder's fucked that means your liver's working weird too--maybe less booze ( Read more... )

"I thought of two common types of thought patterns that I see across diagnoses ( Read more... )

Because of doing bodywork w/ Mom before she had that marble-hard growth taken off her ovary, I see the pain-ache-tension between my shoulderblades and I remember. She had an ache here that water & massage couldn't shift; it evaporated after the surgery ( Read more... )

24 hours w/ the NuvaRing as of right about now ( Read more... )

( How about some TMI? )

For the nurse practitioner at the OB-GYN office who listened to my litany of things my body’s doing that either worry me or piss me off and answered, “Sounds kindof like PCOS. Want to run some tests?”, many thanksFor the fact that the only thing that person could think of that might ease this godsdamned jaw-encompassing acne...is hormonal birth ( Read more... )

Scott came over yesterday and proposed that we change the format of our becoming-usual Wednesday lunch: instead of Find A Restaurant Go There And Eat, what if we ordered pizza and watched this DVD of a show he really enjoys and would like to share with me ( Read more... )

No idea where I am in my cycle at the moment, but I've found that I'm *hella* susceptible to *big* emotional reactions to relatively small stimuli today. TV character has hard-won reconciliation with his mom? Tears. Video of a five or six year old English kid being told he's going to be a big brother...and watching it dawn on his wee face... oh ( Read more... )

Got no reason to get up and dressed before ten this morning, so I took the opportunity to slather on my new toy: a facial mask of roughly 1:2 Activated Charcoal:Bentonite clay, softened with about three drops of Vitamin E oil and four of tea tree, and wet into a slurry with cooled green tea. I like this one because it's easy to see stray splashes ( Read more... )

Monday: Maybe some dancing, otherwise nichts.
Tuesday: I don't remember Tuesday; this is a less-than-great sign for lots of reasons.
Wednesday: A full hour of every exercise in the Callanetics regimen...except for the arse-work, because I still haven't figured out how to sit on one hip, tuck in my tailbone, abduct the hell out of the other leg, ( Read more... )