Know what happens when you stop eating? Even if it’s drug-induced… or especially if it’s drug-induced… When you don’t eat you lose weight. I’ve lost six pounds this week. And that’s just since Tuesday, when I was weighed at the doctor’s office. I stepped on a scale this morning and greeted the silver lining. Of […]
How I know I am very very medicated
At 4:30 pm I was looking at my medication, wondering why the one marked “take after breakfast” and the one marked “take after lunch” were both still there. Didn’t I take them? Then I realized that I hadn’t had lunch… or breakfast… or anything all day that was more substantial than coffee, cough drops, or […]
health is scary
This is a short follow-up to yesterday’s health post. If you haven’t read it yet, it includes the words partially-collapsed lung. I get sick very easily. I was a sickly child. I was a sickly teenager. And I am a sickly adult. When I was a kid we blamed it on my tonsils. As I […]
a very scary call from my doctor’s office
I intended to write a #gratitude post about my health issues this weekend and how lucky I am to have a job where I can call in sick, health insurance that covers my doctor’s visit and prescriptions, and money to pay for what insurance doesn’t cover without dire financial circumstances. That will have to wait […]