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I shouldn’t get as upset as I have been all afternoon because of the little girl I wrote about earlier.
Every time I get this upset I spend the next day with my stomach doing cartwheels and, unless I take way more prednisone than I know I should I typically spend the next three days throwing […]

I know there have been a lot of similar lists of strange things said in hospitals and emergency rooms, most of which have been longer and funnier than this one, but this list has one unique feature: these are all things that I actually heard during my most recent hospital stay.

Your blood count is really […]

You guessed it. I just got back from yet another unexpected and unwanted vacation. This time it was because of an unexpected 5-day stay in the hospital. This time I can probably thank my gall bladder - or, more accuratly, my lack thereof.
Because I had to have it removed four or five years ago, there […]

It seems sometimes that all I do is wander around from daughter to daughter telling them to turn down their headphones. My favorite sentence these days is, “If I can hear it, it’s too loud”. The standard reply to that comment is that it has to be that loud to be heard over the rest […]

Now that Daughter Number Two has graduated from the Math and Science school in Hot springs (and she passed calculus! WooHoo) she’s been walking laps in the circular driveway. This is partially because she wants to get the exercise she’s missing by not walking all over the school and partially because she CAN now that […]

My brother has had a problem recently with being short of breath after the simplest of activities, so he went in last week for a 4-hour stress test. I have no idea what that involves, but I do know that it sounds like a whole lot of no fun at all, to quote a friend […]

Today I’m mourning the passing of a truly great individual.
I knew he was in poor health and not long for this Earth, but I only learned of his death when I Stumbled Upon this page:

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us […]

I just got over something resembling a stomach virus, or flu, or ulcer attack, or something truly unpleasant. I haven’t been able to keep anything down or get too far from the bathroom. It has been suggested that it might again be my lack of gall bladder getting to me. If I eat pork fat […]

I was complaining talking to my brother about the recent problem that’s developed with my vision. I’ve said that it looks like there’s a thumb print on my glasses and that’s a fairly accurate description, but I kept having this nagging urge to come up with a better description.
This post is that description. They say […]

I discovered something a little disturbing this afternoon. First of all, for background information, I should point out that because of the rheumatoid arthritis I’ve been gifted with, I have been taking prednisone for the last 10 years. The dosage has been as high as 40 mg/daily and as low as 2 mg/daily, but it […]