A little optimism
It’s been almost two weeks since my surgery, and I am finally starting to feel like myself again. It’s actually amazing how normal I feel. When I first got home from the hospital, I felt...
Beware the Red Herring
One of the reasons I sometimes take a critical tone towards alternative medicine on my blog is not always that I think these approaches have no merit. But I do think that, too often, people...
An elderly woman died in a nursing home because staff refused to perform CPR
Just heard about this horrible story tonight. An 87-year-old woman died of a heart attack after she passed out in an assisted living facility in Bakersfield, CA. The nurse who was on duty called 911...
So… I lost an ovary.
Well, blogging friends, I still can’t believe this happened. But this week, I lost my right ovary. On Monday afternoon, I went to the emergency room with extreme abdominal pain in my lower right side. ...
Just stumbled across an amazing new resource: Open Access Courseware from Tufts University
I can’t believe I didn’t know about this until now… Apparently, the folks at the Tufts University Pain Research, Education, and Policy program have decided to put all of the lectures for their graduate course...
How to Talk About Pain: Central Hypersensitivity
It’s amazing how sometimes a piece of writing that’s only a few paragraphs long can help to clarify something you’ve been thinking about for a while. I found a great article on Body in Mind...
Face to face with my lack of ab strength
The only good thing about being out of shape is that it doesn’t take very much to get a good workout. Ever since I’ve been having my lower back and hip problems, I’ve known that...
Know your enemy
Have you ever had a totally disappointing experience seeing a specialist for help with chronic pain/fibromyalgia? I certainly have… many times. Fellow pain sufferers, we are fighting an uphill battle to be taken seriously. I...
Arsenic levels in rice… too high for comfort.
This was all over the news a few months ago, but in case you missed it, Consumer Reports published a report in November 2012 showing surprisingly high levels of arsenic in dozens of brands of...
Posts that blew me away
I spent much of this weekend huddled in my house, hiding from winter storm Nemo. I have to be honest– it was kind of fun. I secretly enjoyed the driving ban– in a weird way,...