Category: Health
Zapped
I’m not just tired – I’m zapped. Almost a month ago, I started coming down with a sinus infection. My husband and daughter were also hit pretty hard that week. We spent time at urgent care. We made repeated trips to the pharmacy. We lounged around as a family, consuming ridiculous quantities of Kleenex, Netflix […]
Do Good Anyway
“People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people may cheat you; Be honest and frank […]
Wordless Wednesday: Overnight Monitoring
Maybe this time, I’ll get the answer I need to help my sleep improve…
A Lung Story – Surviving Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
There’s a getting-to-know-you game called “Two Truths and a Lie” that I have played many times. You tell three outrageous things about yourself, but only two are true. With all the crazy things that have happened in my life, it’s not hard to baffle the people I’m playing with. I always say “I spent 3 […]
Retail Therapy
What do you do when you’re too sick to be in public for very long, the gym is a cesspool of sweaty germs, it’s too cold to be outside, and your doctor tells you to exercise anyway? Engage in retail therapy! My pulmonologist recommended that I get 30 minutes of exercise a day, in 5 […]
TMI Friday: Being on Steroids for Lousy Lungs can Give you a Better Rack
In the past month, I’ve filled over 20 prescriptions. In addition to playing “profession patient”, I’ve become the Foursquare mayor of several different pharmacies and medical clinics. I feel like my local Walgreens is the pharmacy equivalent of Cheers – “where everybody knows your name” (In fact, thinking about it makes me want to drown […]
Wordless Wednesday: The Impatient Outpatient
Sorry for the recent lack of blog posts, I’m busy being a professional patient. Air quality is bad, and my lungs are totally out of whack. And I’m sick of being sick.
TMI Friday: My Poor Nostrils
Between the painfully dry winter in Utah, and the nightly abuse of pressurized air from my CPAP machine…my nostrils are suffering. Between prescription-strength steroid nasal spray, regular swipes of Neosporin on a Q-TIP, and sinus rinses…I’m doing what my doctor has ordered. Unfortunately, I’m getting bloody noses all the time. What’s really gross is waking […]
RIP Jack LaLanne
“I can’t die. It would ruin my image.” “I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline. “ “How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it everyday.Your health account is no different. What I […]