I'm in Jxn again--drove down last night because exblogger has a bigass kidney stone and didn't feel like driving to his parents' as planned. He and I both have sinus infections and are on antibiotics, etc; we're just kind of lying around today. Kind of makes me wish I'd put up the tiny Christmas tree or that we had not decided to do small presents after ( Read more... )

Back from Mayo, and it's not myasthenia gravis. It's the beginning stages of multiple sclerosis. At the moment I have one demyelinating lesion on my brain stem at the exact point where the 6th nerve is controlled, so that explains the double vision thing. The MRIs show two more old scar-type lesions in other parts of my brain, but they obviously ( Read more... )

Just now exblogger pointed out that it has been TEN WHOLE DAYS since I posted to lj, so I decided to do a small update ( Read more... )

This is my third week off work, and I basically sleep about 16 hours a day--spread into about 3 naps, usually. Jake gets us food, mostly, or we go out for a little while; my cooking blog is totally suffering. :> Hopefully I can get back on that horse soon, though ( Read more... )

Well, I may have myasthenia gravis, which would totally explain why I'm so damned weak and TIRED ALL THE TIME. I had blood drawn today and have an MRI scheduled for Friday at 6:45am (yeah, I know.) It's a scary disease, but I keep hearing "it's treatable"; so I am trying to be upbeat. Problem: I'm not naturally upbeat. At all. Ever. About anything ( Read more... )

Well, as I posted on here a while back, I am now a bona fide sufferer from Type II Diabetes. Me and Willfred fucking Brimley. I have not been taking care of myself the way I should, and it is catching up to me. Not only do I resemble Jabba the Hut in recently taken photos, I have no clothes that fit. Today I had another reason to step up to the ( Read more... )

• Luv:
• Greek Gods Greek Yogurt -- Pomegranate, Honey, and Fig flavors
  Thicker than "normal" yogurt and more... cheese-like, sort of. It's a little like ricotta. It's probiotic, so it's good for digestion.
• Ceres brand Passion Fruit juice -- birdofparadox brought this up to me, and I am now making my way through a liter of it from Fresh Market in Madison.
• Mastering ( Read more... )

Well, it's official: I am diabetic. Type II, but still ( Read more... )

A few days ago, I finished Secret Ingredients, the book of collected food writings from The New Yorker. By and large, I really enjoyed it. The last section of the book was fiction, though, and I thought the choices they made were--with an exception or two--awful. There was a short story by Roald Dahl which I had read before which was fine. Not one ( Read more... )

Went to the new doctor today and emerged very... disheartened. I didn't realize it, but this guy's office specializes in helping with fertility in women with PCOS. When he found out that I don't want to get pregnant, he just sort of threw up his hands and said, "so what do you need from me ( Read more... )