Tagged: health

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health: the big C

…followed by a little a-n-c-e & r.

“Are you ok?” is a question I’ve had to answer a lot in over the past week. Well, yes and no…

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health: I paid for this!?

I’ve decided that one should not schedule medical appointments–among other things–on April Fools Day. This is not to say that your doctor is going to try to play a prank on you, it’s just that on a day when you’re...

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fashion: head wound chic?

For those of you on the edge of your seats–I’m home, safe and sound. I’m totally rocking the head-wound look, though. I feel like a background actor in a civil war movie hospital scene. I was instructed to keep them...

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health: quelle apropos

Health Care Reform seems well on its way to happening, and I’ve got surgery in the morning. Funny how that happened! Not to get too much into it, but after a visit to the plastic surgeon, she’s decided that a...

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health: it’s not a tumor!

Just back from the doctor and turns out it most likely isn’t anything weird or crazy, but just some fancy-pants scarring–keloids. Turns out my head whackery of last year is having longer lasting effects, but at least it isn’t anything...

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health: is phrenology covered?

Long story short: I need to get my head examined, and will be doing so this week. I thought the worst thing I had to deal with after my little accident was the big bloody scar healing and fading. Thankfully...

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media: recycling IS bad!

It’s not very difficult for me to feel vindicated, but I often set my sights fairly low, so it’s more of a laidback vindication. It mostly involves discovering a copy of a TV show or ad that only I–or 2...

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home: an insect of the family Cimicidae

So… yeah, I’ve got bedbugs. All those times hearing the rhyme, Sleep tight. Don’t let the bedbugs bite! and I thought it was just a cute thing to say at bedtime. Yeah… not. Even though this is just the latest...

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health: winning another battle

“When she woke up and saw they’d taken both breasts, she knew…” It sounds like a line from a horror story, but it was the best thing we could have heard last night. A friend was at GWU Hospital yesterday...