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Welcome back!I’ve been out of the hospital for almost a week and I’m still trying to catch up on all the things that needed doing when I went in. I still have to get car tags, go over a bank statement, get into town and drop off checks for the property taxes and home insurance […]

…this week why I don’t watch current television. The hospital room comes with a television which has somewhere between 50 and 70 channels and it seems that every channel is running the same 10 commercials. The most frequently-run commercials seem to be for “natural male enhancement” products, gastric bypass procedures, and diet pills.
One of the […]

…that I’ve been in the hospital again? It was for the same old thing again. I started throwing up and could not even keep water down and, therefore, got “dry as a potato chip”, as my doctor put it. This meant that instead of sitting at home with my laptop (which I didn’t bring to […]

When I went to the hospital last week, because I was so dehydrated, my blood pressure was almost not registering and my heart rate was running about 120 beats per minute while I was lying flat on my back. There was a short point where, during a coughing fit, the heart monitor registered 185 beats […]

I’ve been doing my best to stay calm and relaxed today because the day after I come home from the hospital seems to be the day I’m most likely to get upset about something and start the whole barfing and dehydrating thing all over again so I can end up back at the hospital with […]

I just got back from yet another hospital stay. This emergency hospital stay was more-or-less caused by the last one.
During my hospital stay last week, they replaced all my daily pills with IV equivalents. This means that, among other things, the 7.5 milligrams of prednisone I take every day was relaced with a much higher […]

I have come to the painful realization that I need to go to an office furniture store and get a full-sized computer desk. The reason this was a painful conclusion is that the desk I’m using now is a “student desk” that was actually made for someone about half my size. I don’t sit down […]

I’m thinking I may need to find a different rheumatologist. The last time I saw him (in May) he told me that if the current mix of medications didn’t start working better for me then he would try something different this month - something that involved a monthly IV. He then told me that I […]

By now I’m sure everyone in the country has heard about Sarah Palin’s decision to leave office. I thought it was interesting watching ABC news last night and listening to the various things that were said.
On the one had, you’ve got Sarah Palin making comments about how it’s perfectly alright for other people to […]

Because we live in the middle of nowhere, we have several dogs. We have 5 dogs who stay outside all the time and one dog who spends most of her time in the house and just goes out to do “her business”. The reason we have 5 dogs outside is because we started with […]