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My Cup Runneth Over
And by Runneth Over – I mean spill I have two cups that I use for tea. You have probably seen them because they show up in my pictures frequently. I have this white one and also a purple one. Both cups are from Piper Lou. I have always been a ceramic or glass cup…
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Switching things up
For some reason I am on an every other night broken sleep pattern and I am not enjoying it on the days I have not had enough sleep! I think it has bee like 12 days of sleep enough, not sleep enough, sleep enough, not sleep enough. Today is a not sleep enough day which…
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Color my World
My week has been a blur, not in a particularly good way. I dislike weeks that basically just drift away which is what this one did. Chemo Tuesday meant Wednesday and Thursday were low energy, low brain power. Fatigue is a real thing. Feeling almost human today but the smoke hovering over our little valley…
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Babble about shoulders and necks
This is my biennial (or so) post about Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS) and my 30 year odyssey of gratitude that I did not listen to the doctor. I like so many other stupid things in my life waited until I was in a crisis moment before I ever saw a doctor about my TOS. It…
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So Fruity
Todays complaint is about fruit. I like some fruits. Not all fruits. What I really like is a nice fruit salad. I am on an occasional very strict diet and can only have so much fruit at a time. So really what I want is about 2 medium size servings of fruit salad, 3 ish…
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I have something to say
But….. it is involved …. So instead I will give you a picture of what my affection looks like. This is me just as much as me standing in front of you would be.A friend and I joked about me wanting everyone in the world to have a Tracy Original. it is no joke. When…
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Just B*tching
I start feeling my age when I am exposed to women who use the word Bitch as a fun friendly term. I went looking for how this became a thing and ran across this article I have actually spent some time thinking about this over the years because it bothers me every single time and…
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Just Breathe
My pulmonologist prescribed symbicort two times a day and albuterol four times a day. Both of these are inhalers and each dose is two puffs. So 12 puffs a day. I went to my new PC a couple of weeks ago and he asked me about it. I explained that I do not really use…
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ReHash of No Hash
In the last three weeks I have had some interesting conversations with a few different people about food and nutrition and food and disease. In the last 5 years I can say with assurance that at least 80% of the people I talk to who are looking for information about changing food habits are not…
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doctors
nephrologist vascular surgeon endocrinologist cardiologist Uro/gynecologist ob/GYN Gynecological oncologist orthopedist Primary Care hematologist radiation oncologist Neurosurgeon ENT Specialist Neurotologist pulmonologist Infectious disease specialist Dermatologist Optomertrist/Ophthalmologist and whatever Dr it is that does my cataract surgery This is my list of doctors that I can think of, that I have seen. When something new goes wrong…