All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘medical’

• Confessions of an Imperfect Celiac

  I confess: At times over the years, particularly when it came to certain trigger foods, I was a bad celiac. That changed in 2009 when I saw this video. I mention my failings because I’m not the only one out there. Truth is, I knew …

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• Long Weekend Trip to San Diego

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  I was originally scheduled to come to San Diego on Saturday morning so I could go to a work-related event on Friday, but, well, I had an opportunity for yet another medical appointment, so that took precedence and I flew down Thursday morning. Getting to …

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• Women’s Iron Deficiencies Frequently Misdiagnosed

  It’s not about that female thing, or at least rarely so. 86% of the time when it was diagnosed as menstrual bleeding, the cause of the anemia was actually gastrointestinal bleeding. Note that taking iron supplements doesn’t cure your gastrointestinal lining; it’s a bandaid for …

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• Miscellanea

  First, I’ve been starting to send out rejection letters for BayCon’s flash fiction submissions. I’ve sent out about a quarter of them so far. Sorry for the delay, I wanted to re-read pieces because I wasn’t reading them in my best frame of mind with …

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• Feeling Better

  Got that tooth out. The dentist didn’t have to use extreme measures, but it wasn’t the easiest extraction I’ve had. Nor was it the worst. Despite my face being sore from the trauma, I feel so much better, enough so that I took a walk …

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• More On Dieting

  Jay Lake linked to an article on dieting: “Why Even Resolute Dieters Often Fail.” I’ve become convinced the issue is deeper than that. In 2005, I wrote about a protein called Zonulin. In short, it determines how permeable your intestines are. My hypothesis (which apparently …

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• Morning State

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  So there you are galumphing lopsided down the hallway in search of ibuprofen as is your usual wont when you notice that your legs feel weird today. They felt a bit odd yesterday, too. In fact, it feels a bit like the odd you felt …

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• Cancer: Symptom to Cure in 19 days

  My mother recently discovered she had cancer. It went like this: October 19, she called the Kaiser advice nurse. October 20, she had an appointment to see her Ob-Gyn. October 26 (her birthday, unfortunately), she gets the news she’s got endometrial cancer. Nov 1, she …

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