Oct 18, 2008 | Health & Wellness, Medical Care, RYAN
It couldn’t have gone better today. Except for the backless gown. That was a surprise to Ryan. While I was answering a few questions, they took him behind a curtain… a couple minutes later, the curtain opens to reveal Ryan laying on a gurney, covered in...
Oct 17, 2008 | Faith, Food, Geezer Band: Harmony Roads, Health & Wellness, Living-In, Medical Care, RYAN
Helloooo. It’s been a wild two weeks over here. I haven’t been sitting around on my shrinking butt doing nothing. Mostly I’ve been busy freaking out because Ryan’s surgery is in the morning. Adenoids out, septum straightened, you-know-what...
Sep 25, 2008 | Health & Wellness, Medical Care, RYAN
This is Ryan’s CAT scan and the blue circle is the mass. And, no. It doesn’t look like "nothing." It looks like a big massy scary-looking something. Actually, it’s not nothing. It’s snot. Yeah. SNOT. In all my wild imaginings, snot...
Sep 20, 2008 | Health & Wellness, RYAN
[MOO-e een-kee-ET-ah, very worried] Ryan has a mass in his nasal cavity. We had it biopsied today. That was fun. Actually, it wasn’t too bad. The doctor was great, very gentle, numbed the inside of his nose topically, asked if Ryan felt anything. A lovely man,...
Sep 2, 2008 | Chelation & Heavy Metals, Health & Wellness
I’m still sizzling hot on the autism-heavy metal poisoning-chelation [key-LAY-shun] topic, and proceeding accordingly. I’m going to document my journey here because, well, this is my diary. I promise not to talk about my yeast infection… although...
Aug 26, 2008 | Dentist, Health & Wellness, Medical Care
Abraham (ah-BRAHM), my dentist. I am so happy to have found him. He’s the husband of a friend, he works out of their gorgeous home overlooking all of the central valley, about five minutes from us. He takes his time, talks about what interests him, has been a...
Aug 24, 2008 | Chelation & Heavy Metals, Health & Wellness, Living-In, Mail and Shipping
"Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life." — Linus PaulingI’ve fallen down another rabbit hole. Last Sunday, a friend here in Costa Rica, Dennis, sent me a video (the first one below). It got me...
Jun 22, 2008 | Health & Wellness
Wear an earbud: If you go to YouTube, you’ll see a long list of videos of other people doing this. Watch these guys: they get a real kick out of this! Hey, wait a minute. Maybe I’m not suffering from menopause after all…
