If you don't follow me on Twitter/Tumblr, then fyi that yesterday morning, I fell down walking on some gravel on my way into work, & tore the shit out of my knee. It was bleeding so much that I went to the ER so they could clean it for me ( Read more... )

I was telling The Boyfriend that I constantly feel like passing out whenever I have my period, & he was like, "Have you ever taken an iron supplement?" And I was all LOL NO ( Read more... )

I keep wanting to blog about what happened in the massage appointment I had last week & being unable to do so. So here are my tweets, along with tweets today about my acupuncture appointment.

Massage Appointment(This is the second massage I've had. I have a lot of upper back pain. I believed this is b/c I have, as they say, a large rack ( Read more... )

In October 2011, I signed up for the program through my work where they take pre-tax money out of your paycheck & set it aside to be used to pay for health care stuff ( Read more... )

[Ironic use of icon because drinking from a straw causes me unbearable pain due to inhaling air, & I don't drink milk!]

I have a busy day today, and I expect it won't be until I've actually tried some recipes that I fully form an opinion about the book.

In the meantime, I'll copy/paste the impressions I tweeted this morning.
Verdict on the acid ( Read more... )

I can tell this going to be a rough read for me; I'm still in the various introductions in which the author is explaining reflux and GERD and etc.

Some of my patients avoid food to such an extent that they lose way too much weight, and I worry about malnutrition and their susceptibility to infections ( Read more... )

I feel a little inspired to write this post because today was a bad pain day.

There is this thing that I have noticed ( Read more... )

Sometimes, pain happens in your body but it manifests somewhere else ( Read more... )

I've always kind of ignored George R. R. Martin because, until a few months ago, I'd never read anything by him. I knew of him as Author Who Hates Fanfiction and Gets Harassed by Readers to Write Faster ( Read more... )

Coverage of the shootings in Tuscon has been mostly creepy. I am really skeeved out by all of the political pundits writing things like, "Wow, John Boehner/Scott Walker/etc. is doing a great job of NOT using this for political gain!" as if these displays if infinitesimal shreds of humanity are something worthy of praise ( Read more... )