I do not have Celiac, but I do have an Helicobacter pylori infection. We'll see in a few weeks if the huge piles of antibiotics I've already had cured it.

I've suspected for awhile that I had Celiac. If nothing else, I certainly had an intolerance to gluten, I felt much better without it and several annoying problems went away ( Read more... )

Reading other people's thoughts on their past year got me thinking about my own. Off the top of my head I wouldn't have thought I'd done that much, but on reflection, I really have ( Read more... )

The boy with the new liver should get his stitches out today ( Read more... )

Friday morning he took a nosedive and they sent him to ICU. His dad went to have a flurry of tests to see if he would be a match for a partial transplant, but it turned out he wasn't ( Read more... )

According to other folks, Cheyenne had a virus that imitated heart failure. He should be okay, eventually.

The kid, on the other hand, has been moved to ICU and his dad is being checked as a liver donor. I've promised his mom soft tissues. I'll probably bring her some food too, although I don't know if she will eat it.

Talked to Cheyenne a little while ago. He may get to go home from the hospital today. He's on various meds and it sounds like he may be on some of them indefinitely. He did sound reasonably cheery.

They still don't know what is wrong with Cheyenne, but they are having to drain excess fluid from his lungs and his body generally ( Read more... )

 So far I've been able to squirt the drugs in her mouth, so she's feeling fine. Let's hope she doesn't decide to start avoiding me. I got her tuna flavor and everything ( Read more... )

 A friend of mine (who is younger than me!) had to go through major breast cancer treatment a couple of years ago.

Today she just announced she's pregnant with her second child.

Huzzah for her and her family!