A congenial spot you'll like a lot!
So, Friday 10/10 I went to my doctor’s office to have new blood labs drawn to check my hemoglobin levels. No appt needed, as per usual. I managed to navigate my way through minimal construction traffic, quite a feat in…
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I’ve been reading a lot lately about all these cool subscription boxes and I’d love to give some a try…but which ones do I choose? I can see how a girl could rack up quite a bill with these things!…
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**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…
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…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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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….
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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…
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