I have been seriously tea-deprived lately. What with being in the hospital and all I hardly had any in Maryland, and yesterday I didn't have any by the time we got home. I had half a cup of mediocre Dunkin' Donuts tea in the airport, and most of an iced green tea in Chicago, but that was about it ( Read more... )

( cut for total whining, please feel free to skip )

I am not Irish, I have (as far as I am aware) absolutely no Irish heritage, and while I like corned beef I usually like it sliced thin and piled between two slices of rye bread with mustard. But for those of you who are celebrating today, I hope you have a happy St. Patrick's Day and all that jazz ( Read more... )

( ow quit it please )

Last night was not great; had a killer headache along with some anxiety, so all I wanted to do was lie down in the dark but I was too anxious for it to really work. I finally did relax enough, though, so that's something. Of course I fell asleep in my clothes and had to get up at 12:30am to take my pills, but whatever ( Read more... )

(I'm sorry, I know I've been posting a lot today. I'll cut this; it's basically me ranting about health care and politics in our oh-so-broken system in the US.) ( more below )

1. If you are in the Midwest or Northeast, I hope you are staying warm especially through the weekend and early next week. I've been reading some forecasts and man, sometimes I miss winter in the Northeast but not right now I don't. I like cold but this is just insane. Hopefully you're all stocked up on warm drinks and foodstuffs and paper goods so ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got a really, really bad migraine, bad enough that two doses of dilaudid didn't kill it. I know my local ER won't give me narcotics without talking to my pain doctor, because rules that make no sense to me, but whatever, I figured they could call him and maybe get somewhere. So Morgan and I went ( Read more... )

First I wrote a post about my woes with the medical system and pain medication and communication issues with my pain doctor, but it made me so aggravated I deleted it before I hit post. (Short version: my head still hurts and I'm SOL until Friday ( Read more... )

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