Curehunter is an interesting addition to our online toolbox. It’s a visual medical dictionary. Here’s part of what it gives me when I look up fibromyalgia:
Not Dead Yet!
I haven’t given up on this blog, either. Or even the long-missing podcast! I don’t know why I haven’t posted in so long, honestly. I’ve been in a very quiet time, but it’s time to leave the shell. I have…
Study: ADHD kids’ brain areas develop slower – CNN.com
Expert: Finding shows the biological basis for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Crucial parts of brains of children with attention deficit disorder develop more slowly than other youngsters’ brains, a phenomenon that earlier brain-imaging research missed, a new study says. Developing…
Date Night, Reading, School Stuff
I was a naughty girl today, too caught up in reading A Few Demons More to do my homework. Bad girl. To be fair, I was also taking care of my Katie baby, who had a fever and was nearly…
TechShop, Photography Advice, Postsingular, NoDryClean, and Verizon FIOS Danger
Disparate thoughts from a very low energy day. In fact, it was so low-energy that I thought I posted this entry last night, and never did. I has a fever. Do Not Want. Blah. Can’t brain. Short attention span means…
The EM Curse
I’m viewing this entry on my ginormous 22″ monitor. My hero acquired it via Freecycle, and toted it from the previous owner’s house to our car and into our house again. It has some insanely lovely resolution and so on,…
Rumbles from the Recliner
Not from the grave, oh no, not yet! It’s been too long to do a real “this is all that has happened in my life.” Writing it would exhaust me, and reading it would likely bore you. If you want…
The Syndrome Syndrome
My goodness. I think somebody over at Home on the Strange might have encountered one of those people who makes life so hard for those of us who really have invisible disabilities! Go on over and read the comic. I…
7,000 deaths a year due to bad handwriting? Save yours!
Well, Time Magazine reports that the National Academies of Science’s Institute of Medicine says that’s the figure, anyway. Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It’s a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the…
Will there be a cure?
I responded to a post in a friend’s LiveJournal, in which she talked about a friend of hers who has just been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. Her friend was very upset that my friend didn’t believe there is a…