Usually I'm stuck with a cold for much longer, but I think my experimental regimen is working. I feel a lot better, so I'm going back into the Linden office today. Still sneezing occasionally, but I can breathe and I have more energy ( Read more... )

This morning, I began to feel the first signs of either a cold or flu-- too early to tell which ( Read more... )

It's nice to have picked up a hobby that has stayed with me ( Read more... )

There's an old man in my neighborhood who I sometimes see taking morning walks. Three times now when I've encountered him, I notice that as my car approaches, he'll stand on the sidewalk at attention and...salute my car ( Read more... )

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Can a cortisone shot make you fatigued? I've barely been able to keep my eyes open since I rode home from the orthopedic doctor's office - even the next day. I just want to nap, but I'm actually having trouble sleeping, too. I feel kind of slow.

Today I had my corticosteroid shot at the orthopedic doctor, which was a lot less painful than I had expected. I seriously thought that the needle was to be much longer than it was and much thicker around, but was a pretty minuscule needle. They used a numbing agent, and my friend Zoe held my hand, so it really wasn't so bad ( Read more... )

Today was my second physical therapy session. I seem to have gotten a little stronger since the first time - I think the extra precautions, rest, and exercises I've been (inconsistently) doing are helping ( Read more... )

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Back when I was a dyed-in-the-wool extrovert (a baseline state that has been tempered over time), I used to consider the problem of social anxiety. I viewed it as this thing that "other" people went through, telling themselves all kinds of stories that prevented them from achieving intimacy and trust with the world outside, or with folks outside ( Read more... )