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"Through the world, I am wandering, wandering; these are the days I live now."

the wordpress thing didn't work out; from now on i'll be here.

i spent half of yesterday at dhmc having allergy tests, blood tests, and a ct scan. the allergy test didn't show anything, i'm waiting for results from the others, and no one has any idea what is wrong with me.

in the next six days i have one three-page paper and two ten-page papers due, and two final exams. so far i haven't made much progress.

when ( Read more... )

my dream last night:

i was on a long water ride with someone who may have been malia obama or someone who looked a lot like her except a few years older, about 14 or 15. we were riding on what looked like brightly colored innertubes with a mass of other people. when we got to the end of the ride we were suddenly dry and wearing real clothes, not ( Read more... )

Dear Elisabeth,

Your labs are all back and the antibody and compliment levels were normal except for IgE, the antibody which is elevated in allergies.

The report says

Immunoglobulin E : 47 kU/L
Result Comment: Suggests presence of allergic disease

Reference Values
Mean: 13.2
+1 SD (standard deviation) = 41
+2 SD = 127

How are you feeling? Would you like to ( Read more... )

me & steve at the sig nu formal*


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so i know you guys are shocked to see the expanse of text in what has become a pretty barren lj, but there've been a few epiphanies as well as some, you know, actual events, so here you go: a full, uncensored, comprehensive update of "what's been happening in elisabeth's life lately."

health update first, just to get that out of the way. m.d. says i ( Read more... )

i wrote this in response to mel's comment, but it turned into an entry in itself.

i've come down from the medication now (was still partly affected & a bit anxious when i wrote the message), but i think the lesson i need to take from it is that i need to take my own concerns more seriously.

shortly after writing all of that down, i went to the health ( Read more... )

Elisabeth Ericson

Today at 11:55am
looks like an extreme oversensitivity to phenylephrine. when i first started writing this message, the remainder simply read, "good to know, i guess, but i've lost so much time!"

but i don't think i can dismiss it that way right now, because my own reaction to the episode has led to considerable self-reflection and ( Read more... )