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April 10th, 2007
I’ve been meaning to stop by for weeks now and let everyone know that I’m alive and well.
(Ironically when I tried to stop by to leave a note, the server was down… grrrr)
Lots of changes going on around here, lots of stuff to deal with.
I’ve had my surgery now. It went very well. The surgeon said that my gallbladder was very inflamed and, of course, full of stones when they removed it (through my belly button — how?) and that I was
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Tags: gallbladder surgery, work
February 21st, 2007
I thought maybe a health update was in order too.
My MRI came back all normal. Well, except that I have gallstones. Huh. The GI guy said I need to have my gallbladder removed. Gosh, I wish someone had told me that before. ;) Anyway, no renegade gallstones; they’re all in my gallbladder, huddled together awaiting the big surgery day.
The surgery is now scheduled for March 23rd. The surgeon had to be out of town on the 16th. Oy. But at least my mother is coming to visit and now at least I won’t be spending my birthday recovering from surgery
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Tags: gallbladder, gallstones, surgery, Pug, dog
February 21st, 2007
I’ve been completely stressed out lately. Stressed to the point of being overwhelmed. Overwhelmed to the point of near-paralysis.
I spent a rather eye-opening hour with the shrink last night who pointed out how connected my home-related stress is to my work-related stress is and how it all is just merging with my Winter-related depression and weighing me down to the point where I’m allowing myself to live up or down to whatever expectations certain people have of me.
I don’t know if I can explain this. It all seems so circular.
So, at work, my top thought is always that I’m going
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Tags: work, anxiety, job loss, depression, overwhelmed, stress, paralysis
February 7th, 2007
Well, it turns out that postponing my surgery might have been an extremely fortuitous turn of events though I was bullied into it by my co-workers who wanted to make sure I did my share of the work while they went on vacation. Heh.
I’ve been seeing a GI Specialist, you know, and he happened to notice that no one followed up on one particular piece of blood work after my visit to the ER in December when I had my Gallstone attack. Something about some liver enzyme level or something being high. Anyway, this could apparently be a sign that
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Tags: gallbladder, gallstone, MRI, surgery, wellness, health
February 2nd, 2007
I apologize for not at least popping on and saying that I survived the norovirus and that there was an epidemic at my workplace. I have no idea who the carrier was but a bunch of us came down with it all on the same day, but that Thursday afternoon we were all quite ill. There’ve been some trailing illnesses but it seems to have completed its course through this office now.
But that’s not what has kept me away.
Let me explain about the Daylight Savings Time “issue”. Remember how panicked everyone was about Y2K? No one knew what was going
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Tags: work, my life, project 365, choices, norovirus, stress
January 20th, 2007
Yup, that’s me.
I’d been feeling unwell since last Sunday, as you know, but Thursday, the diarrhea and vomiting hit me in the afternoon. Well, my stomach started feeling really unwell in that way you know it’s going to be “upset” right before lunch.
Anyway, the low-grade fever, the stomach cramps, headaches, dizziness, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting that they’ve been reporting on the news — all true. Two days of misery — true. And if you think you get to sleep between “episodes”, you’re wrong. You get to stare at the wall and the ceiling. You try to avoid the quick moving
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Tags: Norovirus, wellness
January 17th, 2007
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- Wow, halfway through January already?
- I’m feeling slightly better, just some residual pain in my back and right side but not feeling like I’m splitting in half anymore.
- Pugly is acting very odd lately. I’ve been having to carry him to the car every morning to go to doggy daycare and sometimes I have to catch him to put the leash on him to go outside. Then there’s the weird matter of him not wanting to jump down from the car when we get home. Very strange little dog.
- I’ve been watching HBO’s Rome and I just love love love
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Tags: discombobulated, Seventh Generation, Joy, project365, knitting, gardening, wellness, the puppy, bottled water, Brita, HBO\\\\\\\'s Rome
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January 16th, 2007
I don’t feel well, but I was running low on a few staples like caffeine, bottled water, milk, breakfast, lunch, dinner…Because I wasn’t feeling well, of course, I headed right for the convenience foods. You can’t see that I have oranges and cut up fruit in there but I do. Honest. It’s just hidden behind the T.V. dinners.
Tags: project365, photoday, oneaday, groceries, sushi, comfort food, health food, photo blogging
January 16th, 2007
I put in a call to my GP this morning about the pain in my stomach, right side and back, as well as my migraine, bloatiness and lack of appetite. I said straight out that I’m not going back to the E.R. (or E.D. — interesting that since that series started most actual E.R.’s now want to be called Emergency Departments) and I don’t want to pop oxycodone all the time — makes me too sleepy and discombobulated, and that’s saying something.
As it is all morning I’ve been trying to pry my eyes open. I can’t decide if it’s not
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Tags: pain, migraine, gallbladder, gallstone, surgeon, GP, grocery store, project365, sleepy
January 15th, 2007
And I’ve got a continuing sharpish pain where my gall bladder is. None of the usual meds seem to be doing anything to help the migraine. I’m getting ready to go bury my head in a snowdrift, if I can find one big enough.
I haven’t had one this bad since I moved.
Tags: migraine, gall bladder
January 14th, 2007
O.K. So, I think I forgot to take my meds yesterday morning and I’m paying for it today. Otherwise, I’m just really sick today.
Pugly woke me up at 7am because he wanted to go out. I got up, took him out to do his business, put some birdseed in the feeder, fed the animals, and went back to bed. I woke up again at noon feeling much worse and with a migraine. I’d been having weird dreams mixing HBO’s Rome with HGtv’s whole line up of home improvement and house hunting shows.
I’ve been very ill since then. I’ve been wishing
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Tags: migraine, wellness, health
January 9th, 2007
Since the beginning of December, I’ve been going twice a week to physical therapy in this warm water pool to treat my fibromyalgia. This week I’m switching to once a week on land and once a week in the water. I’m going to miss the comfort of not sweating during my aerobic workout. 
However, an hour in warm water always makes me a little “rushed” afterward…just saying.
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Tags: project365, photoaday, oneaday, photo blogging, pxn8, physical therapy, water therapy, fibromyalgia
January 4th, 2007
As I mentioned in this week’s Thursday Thirteen (I wonder how many people accidentally type “thurteen”), after my experience in the emergency departement on December 15th, which I still think was a repeat of the infamous 1997 December ED experience minus the really good and fun drugs, the doctors and that pesky surgeon have come to the conclusion that perhaps now is a good time to remove my gall bladder.
Apparently, now that “one” gallstone has escaped and caused me such horrific grief, another attack could happen again at any time or it
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January 4th, 2007
I start my morning with all but two of those bottles on the bottom two rows, thanks to all my medical problems. One of these, two of those.
Don’t think the other two bottles get ignored. Those are the night meds.
The top shelf has the pain meds for those days when the migraines and fibromyalgia is unignorable. Though, technically, I don’t take the aleeve or ibuprophen anymore. They’re just there for company now.
I vaguely remember when I used to just take a
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Tags: medications, photo blogging, project365, fibromyalgia, wellness, photoaday
December 27th, 2006
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So this is the time of year when everyone is doing New Year’s Resolutions. I prefer not to do “Resolutions” because they’re generally broken and joked about by the middle of January and forgotten by President’s Day. Then, next January, they’ll be resolved again.
So, instead, I usually try to use the time to reflect and think about the things I’d like to work on in my life, changes, improvements, and so on. I don’t make myself any impossible promises though. I know my limits and I know physics. There’s no way I can lose 60 lbs in 2 months, for example; nor is it likely that I’ll be getting up at 5am any time soon to exercise 3 times a week. 
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December 27th, 2006
When I was a vegetarian in the early to mid-1990’s, it was never about animal rights or some ideal cause. In fact, I had great fun on mailing lists and newsgroups, stirring up the vegan and vegetarians who were all about “not eating anything with a face” or “animals are our friends, we don’t eat our friends!” Basically, I was a vegetarian because I was just plain tired of eating meat — even the smell of it made me feel a bit ill.
This is not to say that I don’t respect people who do actually become vegetarians because
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Tags: vegetarianism, vegetarian, pescetarian, cloned animals, Peter Clement, FDA
December 27th, 2006
I like today’s Fibromyalgia Tip of the Day : Making Lists:
Make a list of things that you enjoy doing. Days when you are out of sorts and bored, this list can come in handy. It sounds silly to think that you might forget what you enjoy, but bad days can be heavy with “fibrofog” and so reminder lists are always helpful.
I think everyone, not just fibro sufferers could stand to put this tip into use. When you’re out of sorts and having a bad day, even
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Tags: fibromyalgia, depression
December 25th, 2006
So, the nutritionists say the poultry is a bad thing for me because it’s pro-inflammatory. They told me to eat more soy and seafood. Seafood didn’t seem right for Christmas dinner, but there’s something in the health food stores called “Tofurky.” It’s kind of fun to say but I was a little wary of trying it. Feaux vegetarian meats have been a kind of scary thing, though they’ve been getting better the last 15 years as “vegetarianism” has hit the modern grocery store instead of just in hidden health food stores.
Anyway, so this Christmas, I decided to go for the whole Tofurky affair. I found a whole dinner at Wild Oats. According to the box:
A Delicious Vegetarian Feast
Feast Includes a Tender, Juicy Stuffed Tofu Roast, 8 Delicious Cranberry-Apple, Potato Dumplings, Rich Tofurky “Giblet” & Mushroom Gravy, and Our Signature Tofurky Jurky Wishstix
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Tags: Tofurky, vegetarian, Christmas, dinner, nutrition, fibromyalgia, cooking
December 20th, 2006
One of the big things I’ve had to try to cope with in the last year in coming to terms with whether or not I had fibromyalgia was the fact that I simply wasn’t capable of doing everything I wanted to do. I felt like I was “talking big” and not getting anything done and I’ve felt as though people, some people in particular (N2 for one and maybe even PW) were judging me. I’ve wondered how many people have considered me just plain lazy. My father, I think. He’s even commented that he thinks
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Tags: fibromyalgia, goal setting
