Let me tell you about my day. To start off, you need to know how horrible yesterday was, and the day before. Sunday, I woke up hurting in almost all of my joints. My back and neck, both hips, right knee, both wrists and many of my finger joints but most of all my thumbs …
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Two Year Surgiversary
Facebook’s On This Day reminded me that today is my 2 year Surgiversary. So much has happened in the last two years. My life hardly resembles that of two years ago, in a good way. Here’s a picture of me also from the general time period before surgery. It isn’t until photos like this show …
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Ch..ch..ch..changes
I have fallen woefully behind in posting updates to this blog. I’m happy to report it’s for the most excellent of reasons. Shortly after I posted last, I was contacted by a recruiter about a job with a large local hospital network. It took a while to get through the rounds of interviews, get and …
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The coffee monkey on my back
I love caffeine. It’s a serious and lasting love I’ve had since I was a teenager. I grew up in a religious denomination that teaches not to defile your temple (body) with drugs like caffeine. It wasn’t a “you’re going to hell” prohibition, but it was certainly discouraged. As a result, I didn’t learn to …
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I reject your reality…
I love that quote from Adam Savage. The reality I’m rejecting today is that I’m old enough to have a 21-year-old daughter. Yesterday we celebrated Munchkin’s 21st birthday. Facebook’s On This Day reminded me that 5 years ago today, she got her driver’s license. She then drove her Dad and I back to my house …
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The Words We Use
I’ve been trying to write this post for a couple of weeks. My thoughts and feelings balked at being committed to paper. I think I’ve worked through it enough to write now, so we’ll see… First, I read an article on Migraine.com (https://migraine.com/expert/fighting-for-migraine-with-words/) by Dr. William B. Young about how the words we use affect …
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Good Measures review
I spent a few months as a client of Good Measures, and wanted to share my experience. The short version is that Good Measures is a great service, especially for bariatric surgery patients who do not have easy access to a Registered Dietitian (not a Nutritionist) where they live. For those not familiar, Good Measures …
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2018 Year of Renewal
So it’s a new year. I’m always struck how this arbitrary line in time is given so much importance. I mean, it makes sense. But then it doesn’t, really. Resolutions are made and rarely make it past the first week of the new year, but we still do it, year after year. Wipe the slate, …
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Cheating on WLS Post-Op Diet
I used to participate on a particular WLS support board, and we had an absolute deluge of people posting about “cheating” on their post-operative diets. Some of the netizens would respond “oh, honey, that’s okay… we’re all human.” Discussions about how impossible it is to fight food addictions would ensue. As a nurse, I was …
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Review of 2017
Well, it’s that time of year again. Time to look back and see how the year went, and try to decide what’s important for the upcoming year. 2017 has been a rough one, certainly. I think the country made a mistake with the election of #45, and I find him to be a complete embarrassment. …
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