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Cancer is a cakewalk.
I've had depression forever. When I look back on childhood, I recognize that I've fought with it since before I was aware of myself as a person. I spent huge amounts of my teen years fighting depression and suicidal ideation, with not a whole lot of effective help from anyone much. Lots of people TRIED to help, but were pretty ineffectual about ( Read more... ) -
Travel journal
or, My Travelling Companion was 7 years old ( Read more... ) -
Having trouble believing this
Insert obligatory post about how fantastic it was to get back to Ymir, and we all had a good time (except for the bit where we briefly lost the boy, or he lost us), our newcomers had a great time, it was good to see harleenquinzell get put on vigil (laurel, natch) etc ( Read more... ) -
back to square 1
So much for a possible diagnosis. I've got a couple of other people to go see, but not a lot of hope at the moment. I've got a pain-management guy at one clinic, and another general surgeon at another clinic. But the general/hernia surgeon I saw at light-blue-U hospital said that it's not a hernia. Of course since 75% of what he sees are hernia ( Read more... ) -
oddities of parenting #8,951 (a mild rant)
This evening the immediate family headed over to the boy's school for the annual ritual of Open House. We received reassurances that he was doing great, we had fun talking to other parents and neighbours and his (very bubbly and excellent) teacher, but due to a miscue on my part we didn't sign him up for on-site babysitting so we switched off and ( Read more... ) -
possible diagnosis!
This, of course, will have to be confirmed with a CT, but it FEELS right. I went to see a 2nd GI/general surgeon, this one at UNC, and he was a good deal more explanatory and willing to listen than the first (irritating) guy ( Read more... ) -
checklists
I just finished reading The Checklist Manifesto, and it's gotten me thinking about a whole host of things. Not least, I'm thinking about work and workflow and why not just documentation but also process is important, and also about future surgeries (for myself or for people around me), and the possibility of learning to fly an airplane (I've been ( Read more... ) -
DC Metro
Letter I wrote to the DC Metro complaints website:
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Weekend update
We went to DSI Comedy Theater on Friday night, and it was hilarious fun. We were extremely grown-up and skipped dessert that night in favour of the birthday cake I planned for my mom's birthday the next day. I did get a chance to try on Nikulai's favourite shoe but they truly don't fit my odd feet (not that I was at all surprised ( Read more... )