For those who aren’t following along, Axl Goode and Taylor Cole are cover models and authors for Ellora’s Cave and strippers as their other job. Axl reports on facebook: UPDATE: After writing this entry I was—finally—issued a mandatory quarantine by the Texas Department of State Health Services. That update was about two hours ago. Their […]
Ebola: Miscellaneous Notes
Say you’re a nurse taking temperatures for a guy who’s been potentially exposed to ebola and is quarantined at home. You’d expect that there would be at least minimal safety precautions, right? Taylor reports: Taylor Cole questioned the health protocol of the nurse who visits him. “She didn’t have gloves on.” ::facepalm:: If you’re not […]
Post-Romanticon: Axl & Taylor’s Self-Imposed Ebola Quarantine
I’ve posted about this on Twitter, but I only amended my Romanticon post to include word of the quarantine. However, given the fundraiser I just discovered, I’m copying the amendment into this post so it gets more attention and adding the fundraising link below. Frankly, no one who goes to to any convention should have […]
The Hip Continues
Well, it’s been just over a month since I did whatever the hell it was I did to my hip. I suspect transferring between boat and ship or somesuch. I didn’t talk about my experience being injected with IV pain meds. They tried a non-naarcotic first and that made me hurt worse. It had a […]
Two Other Unusual Apple Medical Benefits
I’ve been hearing about the freezing eggs benefit, which has made the news, but I’ve never heard news break about the Stanford Health Navigator benefit that Apple offers. Worldwide To its employees For immediate family Even if they’re not covered by Apple insurance Medical Referral Anywhere in the World Need some edge case treatment not […]
Post-ER Trip Hip Update
There are few things quite so grueling as having a part of you that hurts a ton go through medical imaging. So far, been there, done that with a wrist, an ankle, a knee, and now a hip. My x-ray last night led to me collapsing into a sobbing pile. This was after the first […]
Hip Update: Trip to the ER
I wasn’t able to sleep through the night, so I’m going to the ER. (I did manage to get a single spell of about 4 hours of sleep, but that was after 2 hours of tossing and turning to find a comfortable enough position where I could get to sleep. Every time I want to […]
Had an Injury, Going to the Doc
I’ve been in excruciating pain for the last couple of weeks. It started innocently enough: I got an awesome Thai massage, which loosened everything up. Loosened everything up enough that I managed to later torque some muscle in my hip, a rather critical muscle/muscles for balance. This was bad the day we were in Sardinia, […]
Deirdre’s Wheat Belly Rant
Over the last two months, half a dozen people that I’d spoken with for about fifteen minutes total decided to recommend a book to me: Wheat Belly. They recommended it for two reasons, I’m sure: one, they each knew I was celiac or on a gluten-free diet. Two, they knew I was fat. The first […]
Coping With Depression
Robin Williams died, apparently of suicide. He’d been through a recent rehab program; he struggled with both addiction and depression. For many years, I didn’t realize I struggled with depression. When I became involved in Scientology, the depression got worse, and the costs of admitting I had it rose. I left Scientology in 1989, but […]