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Expanding my autoimmune party pack
in unpaid partnership with Sir Robert James Graves Symptoms were so subtle at first that I explained them away with ease. Waking up at 3 am and staying awake for an hour or two? Must be perimenopause. Noticing some hair shedding? Let’s blame perimenopause for that shit, too. Huh, it…
A Net for Floating Thoughts
I’ve been making this bullet list for over a week, popping into the Notes document that I keep open and plain-texting myself some syllables. Served to you with a side of green beans sautéed in garlic and butter. Summer snuck up on me, but I should have seen it coming.…
Flow State
Earlier this week, I was searching for an old post from Six Until Me, the one where I first used “rage bolus.” (I eventually found it in my hard drive archives, back from October 2005. Posted it again here.) I wrote so much back then. Like goofy amounts. Effortlessly. As soon…
Where did Rage Bolus come from?
Back in October of 2005, I wrote about “rage bolusing” for the first time. It was a post on my first Blogspot blog (that has since been taken down). The term, for better or for worse, has permeated the DOC and is now part of the diabetes jargon. So I’m…
Hope is a thing with islets
“Whatcha been up to?” “Oh, not much. Little of this, little of that.” “How’s the diabetes going?” “The diabetes? I still have it.” Rueful laughter from both of us. Which is confusing, since both are me. “So not cured yet?” “Nope, but I keep looking up islet cell transplants as if…
Live deliberately
I signed up for an art class because I wanted to live deliberately. Read that in your best Neil Perry from Dead Poet’s Society voice. (Pretend we’re standing in a cave as the water drips down onto our boarding school heads.) I signed up for an art class because I wanted to…
From PROM to AROM to prevent BARF
I’m six weeks out from shoulder surgery and I’ve graduated from passive range of motion (PROM) to active range of motion (AROM). PROM was effective but frustrating as it seems to be designed to keep my bicep attachment from ripping (BARF), so I had to keep it pretty darn stationary for…
Shoulder Shurgery
said with a Sean Connery accent Eleven days ago, I had surgery on my shoulder to repair the rotator cuff. I was reluctant to send the query through ye olde Google before the surgery because then I would get completely grossed out and not want to go forward with it,…
An Obligatory Resolution Post
But it’s not obligatory. It’s DiGiorno! I hate resolution posts. Flipping the big paper calendar page to January doesn’t mean I’ll have all my shit figured out. (Neither does the brand new planner that I bought that is so much like the one I bought last year and stopped using…