**Just a note – I’m now also a guest blogger on Positivity in Pain – it’s a wonderful place for folks with various chronic illnesses to surround themselves with like-minded people, and we try to put a positive spin on things…even when things really suck. This post was actually posted over there in the wee […]
…or…that wonderful intersection in sports that is September – baseball season narrowing down to the post-season and the start of hockey season. (Well, unofficial start of hockey season…but I’ll take what I can get!) Today my husband and I woke up before the crack of dawn and dragged ourselves out of a cozy bed…all in […]
I’ll be having outpatient surgery sometime in September (probably the 1st half of the month) to remove the 4cm complex cyst on my left ovary. (What makes it a complex cyst you ask? Well, normal cysts are fluid filled and look “hollow” on an ultrasound. Mine, special little thing that it is, looks like it […]
Original articles, for reference: The Unwritten Canon, Revealed – Tim Kurkjian (ESPN.com) http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10964445/mlb-baseball-confusing-contradictory-unwritten-rules A Major League Pitcher’s Guide to Baseball’s BS Unwritten Rules – Dirk Hayhurst (Deadspin.com) http://deadspin.com/a-major-league-pitchers-guide-to-baseballs-bullshit-unw-1585433770/all This weekend, as my husband was incapacitated from a nasty cold, I was flipping through the television channels and stumbled upon “Baseball and American Life” on – […]
Heard back from my Dr today about the ultrasound I had on Friday to check out my cyst situation (cystuation? See what I did there? :-P) … Turns out I have “multiple cysts that are endometriomas” and based on the symptoms I have and the cysts, it is looking more and more like I do […]
Continuing A Month of Thanks… Day 8 – I’m thankful for the things Chris and I share…I’ve never met another person who enjoyed the movie “Young Einstein” and knew who Yahoo Serious was. Day 9 – I’m thankful for the beautiful day today! Got to spend a great morning with my sweetie, got to spend […]
As seems to be the trend around the blogosphere (have I ever mentioned that I hate that term??) and social media, I am participating in the month-long “thankfulness” so I thought instead of just posting on The Book of Faces, I’d post here as well. And, as usual, I’m playing catch up J I hate […]
Today (Thursday 5/23) was my very last Venofer infusion. I was so excited that it was the last one, but my stomach was a mess with nerves and dread since I didn’t have that great of an experience on Tuesday. I am so thankful my Mom went with me (no matter what you may think, […]
Ugh. That’s all I can say that sums up this round of infusions. Round 2 took place on Tuesday (5/21). I didn’t have any adverse reactions to the Venofer, but I had a very difficult time with the IV, as you’ll notice in the pictures to follow (nothing nasty…just bruising!) They attempted the right arm […]
This post will explain a handful of the common symptoms a lot of folks experience who are also anemic. Someone once said to me, “How could you not notice something wasn’t right?!” Well, read through the list – they all seem like very common ailments, don’t you think? I mean, if I went to the […]