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... )

I'm not sure that I'll blog every recipe I try from this book, but I'll do this one.

Recipe as printed in the book, strikethrough indicates, "I didn't use that!"
6 cups baby arugula
2.5 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1.5 tsp walnut oil
2 tsp sherry wine vinegar ( 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 am still watching The Newsroom, but I am loving the ever-living fuck out of Political Animals.
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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... )

Text of an e-mail I just sent.
The assumption that people who don't get better aren't trying hard enough can die in a fucking fire.

( La. )

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