I had a flashback of sorts this evening. For those of you who don't know, let me lay down a little background for you: I had a bad vehicle accident last October. The ass end of my jeep slid out on some black ice on the interstate and I ended up facing oncoming traffic and got nailed head-on by an 18 wheeler. I broke some ribs, my collarbone, shoulderblade, dislocated my shoulders, tore tendons in my neck, cut up my knees, broke my knuckle on my right hand, and bruised my heart and lungs....

I beat my goal of another half mile in the water today and swam a mile instead. It wasn't that hard. I cheated and took a 10 second breather around the 3/4 mile mark, then pressed on. Had 'spaghetti legs' when I got out of the pool, but they went away after a couple of seconds. I think that I'm going to start concentrating on my form tomorrow, and hopefully my speed will come up as my form gets better. I love swimming! Sorry, I just had to say that!

Well, it seems the wreck is never going to go away. I had to go talk to my doc this morning, just a routine follow up kind of thing. I mentioned to him that I was having difficulty with my backstroke; the backward swing of it makes my left shoulder clunk and hurt, so I try not to do it too often - not the windmill version of it, anyway. He took a look, had a feel, moved my arm around and made my shoulder hurt, and told me he was pretty sure I had torn my labrum, the 'cup' of cartilage th...

I got bitten by a spider this morning, and I think it was a Black Widow. I was cleaning out dried grass from the bottom of the lawn mower (the kids had mowed last time and didn't bother to clean off the grass clippings) and I felt something pinch my hand.  It wasn't incredibly painful, in fact I though I'd been poked with a splinter or something.  I shook the grass off my hand to see what I'd been jabbed with and a little black spider fell off onto the garage floor.  I had a lo...

I had a final visit with my doctor this morning. My back's been bothering me for weeks....I fell down the stairs and he thinks I probably re-herniated the L2 disc.  It's been painful, enough to make me sleep on the futon instead of our bed, and I've had a steady supply of pain meds to enable me to get about and do what's been neccessary. So, this morning he mentioned that once we in-process our next base I'll probably need to start a series of steroid shots directly into the problem a...

For those of you who aren't up to speed.....I had a large lump (about the size of a hen's egg) removed from my left breast earlier this year.  It was non-cancerous, but it still had to come out anyway. Now that everything has shifted back to normal and things have healed and settled....I'm lopsided.  My right is noticeably bigger than my left.  I usually wear a C cup...and I fill out the right side nicely.  The left is emptier.  I tried on a bra that was a B cup the o...

Blah, blah and double blah.  That's how I feel today. I have a snotty nose, clogged up sinuses, a headache, all my teeth hurt, my nose is raw from wiping, my joints hurt and all I want to do is lay around whining and feeling sorry for myself in general. I hate being sick.  It would help if I could sleep, but I can't...all I do is lay there, coughing and sniffling and generally feeling rotten.  Ok, I'm done whining now. 

And it's not nice. I had my gallbladder removed 5 years ago because I had stones.  I've had the same kind of pain that I had when I was trying to pass a stone since saturday...it's ranged from pretty uncomfortable to downright painful.  I stuck it out, but this morning gave in and went to see my doc. Apparently, the greasy burger I ate on Saturday afternoon, combined with the big glass of warm malted milk I drank that night, added to the dark-meat chicken I had...

Link A recent study at Harvard University concludes that sleep-deprived interns make more mistakes than those who have had adequate rest. Well, you don't say??!!!!!  Did we really nead a Harvard study to tell us that?!! I find it amusing that truck drivers are legally limited to the number of hours they can drive for in order to ensure they get enough sleep....but we're letting physicans, fledgling physicians at that, work on people when they're sleep deprived. Makes not much...

I saw a wonderful image this morning. A picture of a little boy, holding a stethescope to the chest of an elderly man, listening. Listening to the beat of his father's heart within that elderly man's chest. The boys father had been killed, and his organs had been donated.  The man who got his heart had been told earlier the day of the transplant that unless a heart became available soon he wouldn't be strong enough to withstand the surgery.  Miraculously, later that day, h...

I'm taking my youngest in to get tested for ADD. Jake's had issues with listening and following directions for ages.  He rarely finishes anything he starts,  he forgets things constantly, his room and his desk at school are disaster areas, he's disruptive.....sometimes when I talk to him I can almost see the words bouncing right off him.  He doesn't listen, he doesn't absorb.  We had parent/teacher conferences last week, and his teacher brought up his lack of self-disc...

Today is the day my boy Jake has an appointment with the pediatrician and psychologist to review his ADD score results. I saw the questionnaire that his teacher completed; she scored him really high too. So, we go talk to the professionals this afternoon and see what they want to do. I've been given some hope by my friend Rob (Hi, Rob!!) who's son AJ also has ADD and recently started taking Concerta.  Rob says it's like night and day....but also says that he's been given the option...

It's official.  My concerns and doubts about Jake's behaviour have been right...he has ADD. He starts taking Concerta tomorrow morning.  The doc started him out at the lowest dose, 18 mg, with the option to increase if necessary.  He doesn't have to take it on the weekends if we don't want him to, nor during school holidays, but she said that we should give it to him every day for a couple of weeks before we think about giving him a weekend break. We talked about the possibi...

Today is the fifth day that my boy Jake has been on Concerta for his ADD. It's been going remarkably well so far.  Day one, his teacher sent him home with a note saying that she had used his math worksheet as an example for the rest of the class.  Usually Jake's work is all over the page; this time, though, he had lined all his equations up neatly and had written them clearly.  A total turnaround from his usual work. Day two, she sent yet another note home saying that sh...

 I wrote this article recently Link about how I was going to try and gain some weight because I felt I was too skinny. Of all the men who replied, not-a-one of them said they preferred skinny, scrawny chicks.  In fact, most of them said they preferred women who were 'curvy'. I find this revelation very curious.  It makes me happy, but I find it intriguing. Why, if American men like women who have some shape to them, are we women going to extreme lengths to make our...