Posts Tagged ‘health’
…and I am, uh, a material girl? Or something like that anyway. Ordered up a set of these this morning. Got to get back to pounding pavement, soon. Something to keep me motivated over the winter months ahead. The health/activity thing has been weighing on my mind a lot lately, what with Edwin due to [...]
Man. I am way behind schedule on a lot of stuff right now. Work is kicking my ass senseless, and with the impending move and other fun, I can barely keep my head above water right now. Behind the curve on packing. Thus far, I have gotten the books and about 2/3rds of the bike [...]
1. You may (or may not) have noticed that this site was suspended — along with my others. A2 Hosting claims that one of them was hacked, but couldn’t tell me which one or the symptoms. They re-instated me around 6:30 this morning (not long after I discovered it), and I’ve spent the last hour [...]
There is no deeper hell than a cold in the middle of summer. And I’ve got a bad ‘un. This morning a co-worker asked if I felt better today, I said, “About the same, really.” “Oh,” she said. “Well you sound much worse!” Awesome. If there were re-sale value for used Kleenex, I’d be a [...]
So one of the things that I’ve always had problems with is eating healthy meals. I have a horrible, horrible sweet tooth and to make matters worse, I’m addicted to caffeine. This is compounded by a job that frequently sees me hitting up the vending machines for a “quick lunch” to get me through the [...]
As I approach forty, I notice more and more wrong with my body. I’ve got aches in my joints, a little bit of mitral valve prolapse, a degrading C6-C7 disc in my neck, a white-matter hyperintensity on the front of my brain, and my hearing’s been going since my days in the Army. And now [...]
I have a doctor’s appointment today. Follow-up on a few things, and going over some new things. I won’t go into detail here — not until I know for sure what’s up and the people closest to me have been made aware of anything important that comes out of this. The Vikings have eked out [...]
How the time played out at the VA last night: Check-in: 30 seconds. First episode of Simpsons on iPhone: 22 minutes. TED Talk #1: 17 minutes. TED Talk #2: 14 minutes. Triage: 3 minutes. Time spent totally idle: 15 minutes. Time spent reading while waiting for doc: 20 minutes. Time actually spent with doc: less [...]
Okay, so results of the MRI are in: I have some degradation of my C6-C7 disc in my neck. This does not come as much of a surprise to me. My upper back problems are strictly muscular in nature. The one big surprise was the WMH (white matter hyperintensity) on the front of my brain. [...]
I’ve got a physical at 1pm today. That was on the agenda well before the weird neurological symptoms that landed me in urgent care over a week ago, and the subsequent scans of the head and c-spine. Speaking of those scans, I’m still waiting for results. I’m hoping I can get that addressed today. I’d [...]
