Unrelated to Anything: How about some free chicken?
Since I got sick, Phoenix and Lablad have to do a lot more cooking, which means using more convenience foods, like boneless/skinless chicken breasts, to be used in things like grilled chicken sandwich...
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How I kind of won versus Japanese Knotweed
Japanese Knotweed, as a lot of people know, is not just an invasive plant and a weed, it's a terrible plant. When it grows in the United States it has a zero-tolerance policy for other plants. It can...
View ArticleThe SWEETROLL Recipe (mostly for Sam)
This is the Betty Crocker sticky roll recipe that became my sweetrolls. What is different is listed...
View ArticleQuick Update
I am sorry if my stuff has been a bit scattered over the past few days and weeks. Normally, I would not post things with a lot of large capital letters, but the reason I am is because it actually is...
View ArticleAnother brief update
Well, I got my mind back, which is nice, and I'm mostly recovered from the food poisoning or whatever that took me out last week. Still a little shaky on my feet, but recovering.A dear friend who helps...
View ArticleSo my current diagnosis...
...Is of a mixed connective tissue disease, an autoimmune disorder that is attacking my lungs like rheumatoid arthritis, but also has bits that look like lupus and other diseases. It's almost a...
View ArticleCurrent current diagnosis
We have narrowed down the form of lung disease I have to one so rare that I am not telling people not in my family what it is exactly. There are less than 200 people in the USA with it, and I'm a rare...
View ArticleSuper Quicky
I'm actually feeling significantly better on the immunosuppressives. They still wallop my insides about 1 hour after I take them, but I'm already feeling less icky. I feel like a bit of a drug dealer...
View ArticleEverything that is wrong, or right, with Buffalo, in a few seconds.
This morning, many of us in Buffalo saw the clip of Anderson Cooper's giggling at Buffalo's dear, dear tradition of Dyngus Day...and some of us, especially the ones who've seen this before, got these...
View ArticleMe, Azathioprine, and life.
I'm halfway to my maximum dose, now at 100mg of azathioprine a day. It's one of the best studied drugs for these forms of autoimmune lung disease, and based on the research I've read, has limited side...
View ArticleWell, that lasted long....
I officially flunked out of azathioprine. I was managing to not puke any more, but my liver suddenly said I no can has. So, now we baby my liver for a few weeks, then try a new course of treatment.I'm...
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Some garden images.
I'm still sick. That makes it hard to make interesting blog posts. Here's what's going on in the garden:Feral grapes and feral roses. Both emerged from underneath the invasive privet we killed.I also...
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What I do when I'm too sick to get out of my chair.
That's an Alpha Centauri Rating of 1031%, biatches. On the Highest difficulty level. Abundant lifeforms and humid for extra fungi.
View ArticleToo soon to say... ..and a disjointed rant about narcotics.
I am on a different, time-released immunosuppressive now, plus the same dizziness-causing anti-pneumonia drug (we're very limited in what one to use here) and this one plays nice with my morning meds,...
View ArticleBetter, then worse, better, then worse.
The major reason I've been making sure to keep health updates on this blog, even though they are largely cranky and no fun to read, is that those people who are diagnosed with any form of interstitial...
View Articlequicky thing Re: Doctor Who
Since it's one of my most frequently looked at thingys, I put links to each of the Doctor Who guides at the bottom of the last. In order, they...
View ArticleMost recent appointment and Health Care Shenanigans
One of the things that people who oppose health care reform like to claim is that healthcare reform will make the government get between you and your doctor...and that private heath insurance somehow...
View ArticleVideo: Clint Eastwood's Existental Crisis
I will never be the videographer needed to tell the stories in my brain. So, here is my reaction to Clint Eastwood and the chair:All of the images are from a Clint Eastwood image dump, except for the...
View ArticlePlease don't jump to conclusions about this. (link dump)
As my 7th friend working in my field has now developed a rare autoimmune disease, I'm sort of collecting data for a dump on the safety of laboratories and autoimuune diseases. So, this collection of...
View ArticleA long post culminating in a statement about why the DNC is unsafe for people...
The republicans in the United States right now are absolutely insane. Let me get that out of the way, first. The republicans in the United States right now are absolutely, certifiably, not...
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