The Geek Who Understands You
I detest ignorant bigots. And I absolutely consider the following hate speech. From http://glenysluckymama.blogspot.com/2008/06/fibromyalgia-and-abortion-possible-link.html: So like an HPV diagnosis in someone would almost guarantee that others would know the person’s potential morals or lack thereof, and HIV almost always denotes…
If you have fibromyalgia, or care about anyone who does, please read and respond.
I read Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease by Rosalind Joffe and Joan Friedlander a few months back, but for some reason, my review on Amazon took a while to show up, and I didn’t think to keep a copy for…
A research abstract from Dr. Paul Cheney offers an interesting conclusion. Oxygen Toxicity as a Locus of Control for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome “We conclude that CFS is an oxygen toxic state and that oxygen toxicity status appears to determine outcome…
There are many people, especially doctors, who claim that fibromyalgia is just a symptom of depression. I’ve had both, and I know the difference quite well. They are very, very different. Being in pain all the time can certainly lead…
The interview we did is up! Chronic Pain and Sex: a Couple’s Gentle Battle With Fibromyalgia I’m pleased with it. There are very few, mostly immaterial inaccuracies.
I intended to post and maybe even try to get a podcast out but ended up using my energy to do an interview with a reporter. I don’t know when the piece will come out (it wasn’t for awareness day—that…
I consider Sunday the first day of the week rather than the last. It was a week full of appointments for the girl and getting paperwork shuffled to various bureaucracies. Sam and I had lovely dates Wednesday and tonight, although…
Today was the monthly visit to the pain doc, which requires trekking across town to Fascist County. It was somewhat amusing to see “Drought Threat Level 4 Measures in Effect!” right next to CVS watering their little patch of grass.…
About models and the effects of the media on body image in their populations, at least. Following Spain’s move last year that banned ultra-thin models from catwalks, France is acting. The “French parliament’s lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill Tuesday…
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