Slideshow I made from some photos a friend shot of the full lunar eclipse this past weekend.

For a more detailed sequence, see the .gif in my profile.

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I've not written here in my health journal for a while, but I suppose now's a good time.

As regards the endo, I have had NO symptoms since late last summer. I've been struggling with other things, but that's another topic altogether. The main reason I want to write this entry is to say that, aside from cayenne pepper and cleaning up my diet, ( Read more... )

Okay. Cayenne in hand...
Off I go to Vermont.

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I've just taken a long, hot bath/shower.
Drove back from Vermont this afternoon/evening in a Nor'Easter. Six and a half hours of on-again-off-again pelting rain. NewYorkStateThruway and TractorTrailers and GinormousTwoLaneWide Puddles, oh my! O.o ( Read more... )

As of two days ago, I have my very own copy of Singing the Living Tradition, aka the Unitarian Hymnal. It's actually rather more comprehensive a book than I'd expected. Hard cover, waffer-thin paper, reasonably copious book. Some really good songs. It even smells like a hymnal....which, oddly enough, I find somewhat comforting ( Read more... )

So today is the original date that was set for my laparotomy. The date had been juggled and changed to the 27th, of course, but I'd already decided I wasn't doing that date anyway because I'm workin toward a second opinionWell ( Read more... )

I'm rushing out the door, but let me just give an example of how important it is that we support our local health food stores as often as we can. I needed some more cayenne tincture for my vacation trip, to make sure I'll be covered for any pain episodes I get with the endo, but I knew for a fact I wasn't gonna make it out of work in time to get ( Read more... )

On the drive in this morning (lordy I love my new Prius), it occurred to me that I need to post about how good I feel right now. I'm premenstrual so the pains come and go (meh), but the dietary parings-back are beginning to show some benefits, as is the fact that I'm back on the wagon with my daily drink of cayenne water ( Read more... )

Today I feel meh. My energy dropped hard mid-afternoon, pains are here a bit, I'm suckin' down some cayenne-water as we speak. Wanna be at home, not here east of the Hudson, but since I'm gonna be away for a week and a half starting next Thursday, I agreed to work on-site all this week and all 3 days next week. So for purposes of less travel- ( Read more... )

...by way of posting in my journal that I've made up my mind to get a second opinion about surgery, see this post in endometriosis