I started experiencing really bad headaches on Wednesday last week, getting worse through the weekend, but that appears to be a sinus infection of some sort. It's bloody painful and ... bloody. Lots of blood clots. I'm running a cheap humidifier in the bedroom now, but the headache shoots right through the Vicodin I'm taking for my back. That's one ( Read more... )

azriona has volunteered to spearhead the part of the fundraising project that is the Recipe Book.

She's just posted information about how and where to submit recipes on her journal.

Go forth and be foodies for the cause!

ladychi has been kind enough to organize, with the help of several other Whovians of our acquaintance, a project (two, in fact!) to raise some much-needed money for our escalating medical bills & increasingly stressful home bills (due to lack of work).

As you may recall, baron_elric had prostate cancer surgery a few months ago, and I still have lupus/Primary ( Read more... )

baron_elric has put up some more of his classic Marvel comics for sale on eBay, to help raise some money towards our medical & home expenses:
For those who are interested in, or know people who are interested in, Silver Age comics, I've got X-Men 17, 18, 20, and 31-35 listed on eBay right now. I'll be listing some more books from the sixties in the next ( Read more... )

We have fantastic news concerning how baron_elric is doing after his prostate cancer surgery.

He just got the results from his first post-surgical PSA-level test, and it reads "0.1%" -- that's as low as the lab's readings can go. Which means ZERO level.

In short, that means they definitely got all the prostate cells. Hurray ( Read more... )

Well, the MRI and X-rays taken a few weeks ago at the Neurospine Insitute of Hell (not going back there -- oh, happy day!) were read by my neurologist this morning, and he walked me through them, since he knew I'd looked at MRIs and loads of X-rays before (and my husband is the son of a teaching doctor at Temple, etc. etc ( Read more... )

Still alive, still coughing (oh, coughing so damn hard I keep, um, okay, TMI ...), and still on drugs ( Read more... )

Another late-nighter with Wiley. The book I'm currently proofreading has apparently just gone into Scheduling Hell: it was a fast turnaround. Now it's a "work 'round the clock" turnaround. At least it'll be done fast and out of here. But it could have come at a better time ( Read more... )

Well, the "new prep" for my colonoscopy was Moviprep ( Read more... )

Nothing says Happy Holidays like a colonoscopy.

I'll be up all night (quite literally) drinking the prep (the last quart needs to be drunk at 4:30am -- do any of these doctors realize that a person needs to sleep?!), and I go into the surgical center at 9am tomorrow morning ( Read more... )