Azi called me a "Bum Ho" this evening. I'm really hoping it was just an unfortunate coalescence of sounds in her jibberish. First I said, "wait, did you just call me a bum hole?" kind of shocked and amused. She said, "Nooooo! I said Bum HO." "Oh," I said, and turned my smile away. I made no more of it.

I netflix'd a bunch of Weeds, and just sent them back after watching the first 2 episodes. I wanted to like it; I liked what I knew of the premise (mom sells pot to support her family after her husband's death, no more). But when she says, in the second episode, "I'm selling pot to maintain my lifestyle!" and I realized that was true, the show ( Read more... )

We went to visit another school today, this time without Azi along. It's the 3rd "alternative" school we've visited. We liked one a lot, we LOVED another one, and this one, not so much. The gay vice principal giving the introduction and tour was sweet, but talked for way too long about the history of the site (ok, yes, we're as excited as you that ( Read more... )

We just a lot of really rich Indian food. Nothing has made me feel this right in months. I fucking love Indian Food. I just had to tell someone.

I'm just freaking out. These people on the Lyme discussion boards talk about their years of oral and IV antibiotics, and they're not better yet. Just more and more antibiotics, in various combinations. People have been posting just today about ear-ringing and deafness they've experienced with Azithromycin, one of the drugs I'm supposed to start ( Read more... )

Ben got me a banjo for Christmas. I know, right? I've had this affinity for banjos for a long time, since before frequenting the Cantab Bluegrass night in Cambridge in my early/mid twenties. I just like banjos: the shape, the sound, the mood. But honestly, I don't know a whole lot about Old Tymey, bluegrass, banjo kinda music. I just don't. But I' ( Read more... )

I get so annoyed that Azi doesn't play with her toys in her room, like hardly at all. Maybe a tea party with her tea set, as long as I'm in attendance. She only plays with things that are not-toy objects, which is all well and good, and even better imo than relying on plastic crap for entertainment, BUT she also refuses to give away most of the ( Read more... )

The book I have on Lyme says, "IgG is somewhat more accurate." And that what shows positive for me. The book also says that if band 41 plus one other band is positive, you should consider yourself positive. I have 41, and 3 of the other Lyme-specific indicators, so I think it's pretty much that ( Read more... )

I'm so confused about this Lyme thing. Got that ridiculously expensive testing, and 2 weeks later went in for the appt with the naturopath to review the results... and the weren't there. The only result that was there was my CD57, which was low, which "basically only happens in Lyme." What basically meant, I have no idea, since she decided to send ( Read more... )

After losing hours of sleep last night wondering what today's appt with the Lyme-literate doctor would bring, and then moving through many stages of anxiety in the waiting area, she didn't even have the test results back from Igenex yet. Igenex is the only lab that does this super turbo advanced Lyme testing...which is still possibly not decisive, ( Read more... )