The past few days have been marked by overwhelming and consistent pain in my lower back. It hasn’t been this bad in years. I’ve been trying to minimize it with a combination of over-the-counter muscle relaxers and pain killers, but that’s not working. Will need to go to the doctor’s office for real medicine, and […]
A nervous tic
I can see my heartbeat… in my right eyelid. More accurately, my eyelid is fluttering to the tune of my heartbeat, showing me my pulse. If I place my finger lightly over it, I can feel it and count it out. It’s annoying as hell. This started a few months ago. At first it was once […]
Tía to the rescue
I’m writing this from the waiting room of the pediatrician’s office. The kiddo is sick. I got a call from my sister “hoping that you have a flexible day.” Her day, it appears, is not. The kiddo is sick and she has one of those days when she’s not allowed to be a mom. So […]
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 […]