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...
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...
Mar 4, 2008 | Medical Care, Plastic Surgery
My friend, Dara, just wrote asking about plastic surgery here… "for a friend," she said. Right. It’s ok, Dara. Trust me, I understand. Actually, since Dara is still in her 30’s and gravity has not yet begun it’s most serious work on...
Feb 6, 2008 | Health & Wellness, Medical Care
WARNING: This post is completely controversial and I know many of you will want to scare me back into compliance. I don’t think you can. (That was the warning.)Every couple of years, I’m compelled to overhaul some piece(s) of The Physical System that keeps...
Nov 30, 2007 | Medical Care, Parasites, Pharmacy
You might want to skip this. I’m going to talk about poop. Every piece of literature you read on Costa Rica makes two claims (some make many more, but these two are on every single list I’ve ever seen): 1. Costa Rica enjoys 95% literacy.2. The water is...
Nov 16, 2007 | Cost of Living, Medical Care
I’ve been using my lifesaving bio-identical hormone cream every night for 10 years now. Lately it feels a little off and, since I’ve never had any blood work done to see if the dosage was just right, I thought, "Why not have it done in Costa...
