I'm sure there is a valid medical reason for it, but when I filled this form out to get my flu shot the other day, I had to giggle when I got to the question indicated by the pen in this photo:
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...now I want to get some friends together and recreate this! AWESOME!!! Thanks to hnybny for finding this gem...

Hilarious Elevator VideoAs for those concerned about my health, based on my Sunday entry, I'm doing much better. The antibiotics, the pain meds, or both have reduced the pain TREMENDOUSLY. I still feel it, but it's more like a minor irritant ( Read more... )

After having that horrible cough for something like six weeks I took a sick day on Thursday to stay home and rest, and I went to my doctor. She said I had cough-variant asthma, put me on a 12 day tapering dose of Prednisone, and gave me two separate inhalers with different schedules for each ( Read more... )

So I went to the doctor today and was diagnosed with allergy-induced cough-variant asthma, for which I was put on Prednisone and two inhalers. I've been coughing for well over a month. I hope this kills it. She also told me that my excessively dry and cracking lips are due to a vitamin D and Zinc deficiency, so I picked up some supplements at the ( Read more... )

I totally didn't see Easter coming this year. We don't really "celebrate" Easter at our house. When Dominic was really little we did the whole Easter basket thing, and all that, but these days... well, it's just too much effort and it seems like no point. There's some good candy on sale right after, so there's that, but Easter itself? Meh ( Read more... )

In my neverending, lifelong fight against extremely chapped lips* I did some reading which indicated that coconut oil was the miracle ingredient I needed in a lip balm. Unfortunately, coconut oil is totally rock-solid at winter room temperature, so it's hard to apply, and when you do apply it, it melts to total liquid at body temperature and all ( Read more... )

Every winter, for as long as I can remember, I get really bad chapped lips. Last night I was over at Thursday night gaming night that a friend of mine hosts every week (EVERY week--holidays included) and my chapped lips split further and started to bleed. I had to keep a napkin with me and constantly, like a couple of times every minute, blot the ( Read more... )

I had a pretty productive day. I did the dishes and wiped down the counters, finished some laundry, painted the edges of two canvases for the show black (the print of "Being Art" and also "Pixie's Itch" both still had white edges, which is a no-no for hanging in a gallery). I went to the bank to deposit some checks and remembered to get cash out ( Read more... )

So according to my mom and my lj friend and other web sources coconut oil on my lips is a better solution than lip balm. I have a big jar of coconut oil because I'd heard it was good for the skin in general... the problem is, at room temperature (Massachusetts room temperature that is!) coconut oil is a solid. Not even a smushy semi-solid, but a ( Read more... )

I know I've posted my medical trials and tribulations on my journal frequently. I know there have been people worried that I may be self-medicating or skirting around the fringe of medicine because I truly am taking quite a few medications. I just wanted to maybe assuage some people's worry and set the situation clearly, and show that my doctors ( Read more... )