Happy Pride Day everyone!

Met my assigned primary care doc at Group Health today and she's another one of the good ones. Didn't flinch on lifestyle issues, did the tests that I wanted that she didn't think I needed, and worked with me in almost a collegial way ( Read more... )

Well, our traveling continues one way or another. Last night I dropped my Dearest Friend [to quote John & Abigail] at SeaTac, where she caught a red-eye special that ultimately brought her to Bangor, Maine. It's a week-long training session for the NPS and is held at Acadia NP. I just heard from her and it was a partial safe-arrival call - she got ( Read more... )

I just skimmed through my friend's list for the day and read about one friend needing a TSH test and and another going to the VA and and yet someone else getting a tubal ligation and I too had a day living medically. Dentally, actually ( Read more... )

I like a bear as much as the next hefty bearded sexual outlaw, but there are limits.

Crazy people of all sorts abound, people hell bent to defy actuarial tables and to flunk their Darwin test. Witness the German free spirit who decided to jump into the polar bear pool at the zoo.

Lunch ensued.

The other side of being 'exempt professional' catches up today. Yes, I can often take off early if the work is done. I largely work according to my conscience, not a clock ( Read more... )

It's a week later and still working on the Z-Pak antibiotics. Still swallowing a slug of the hydrocodone/homatropine syrup every four hours. Much of my day is in bed, with some of it up and about [on the mission of holding my torso vertical for 3 hours at a time rather than any other excuse ( Read more... )

We had some old friends over for dinner Sunday night and it was really great to see everyone ( Read more... )

Got home middle of the evening last night and had to head on back out to Urgent Care [Group Health's almost-an-emergency-room]. Saw the same PA that I saw a few months back for bronchitis and I again found him both personable and competent. Last night was for a 'roid the size of Nebraska. [Well, literally about the size of my thumb, but nerve ( Read more... )

Like all good little progressives, I exulted in the victory of Daddy Obama and drank the kool-aid that he would Make It All Better. Watched that evil Bush fly away and heard Cheney cackle ( Read more... )