The NaBloPoMo prompt for today: How do you feel when you return home at the end of the day? I’m not sure I should have answered this one, as I doubt that my answer will be in sync with the intent of the question. I don’t leave home every day to go to work, or leave home […]
Female Heart Attacks Are Different: A Nurse’s Heart Attack Experience
The following was posted to a mailing list I’m on. Of course, it was surrounded with the usual “send it to everybody you know!” admonitions. I don’t do that, and I usually delete anything so marked. But I did find the information useful, so (after editing a bit, I admit), I am reposting it. I […]
An Update Instead of a Book Review!
I looked back at my recent entries and realized that it’s been a really long time since I posted much of anything substantive. I’m coming out of a long period of being nearly zombified thanks to one of my medications. I didn’t realize that was happening, as I’d been on that drug for years without […]
Linky Linky
You know all those stories and worries about immunizations contributing to autism? Forget them. The doctor who wrote the study that started the scare back in 1998 has been charged with “fixing” the data. What’s more, the “study” only involved twelve patients! The second story is a very good article about how the obesity scare […]
Ouch
Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there. How do you crack a rib without even knowing it? Damn. At least, we think that’s what’s wrong. And it isn’t going any magically, dangit! I guess I have to go to the doctor
Europeans Continue Coming to Their Senses
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 that would make it illegal for anyone—including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites—to publicly incite […]
Steroids for FMS/CFS/ME?
Today’s post is at Fibrant Living.
The Insanity of BMI
Kate Harding created this very cool slide show to show just how absurd it is to rely on body mass index to determine whether or not people are at a healthy weight. BTW—I did not “miss” blogging yesterday. February 29 was the only “day of rest” for Blog365, so I took it :-) It felt […]
Further Prof of Insanity: Blog365
I got through NaBloPoMo, as ridiculous as it was to commit to posting at least once a day for a month. So of course that small success has led me, in a moment of more-than-usual-lunacy, to sign up for Blog365 (otherwise known as “Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire”). The purpose is fairly clear: […]
The EM Curse
Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there. I’m viewing this entry on my ginormous 22″ monitor. My hero acquired it via freecycle, 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, and is so big that […]