I am (once again) missing Kaiser.  For all their faults, there are some things that Kaiser does really well – like make information from test results and visits available to the patient. It’s all there. Got blood work?  You not only get the results, you also get your past results and a link to what…

The holidays are upon us. I am really having problems getting focused on the holidays this year. Usually I would have all the gifts ordered, to be shipped to the recipients, and the holiday cards all designed, and printed and the stamps and envelopes ordered.  And if the tree isn’t up, at least the household…

I take Omeprazole every single fucking day. I take it because I have GERD (that means my stomach acid likes to go roaming now and then). The reason I take my Omeprazole every single fucking day is, because if I don’t, I will be dealing with stomach acid – all the way up to the…

Here it is Thanksgiving Eve.  I don’t have any cooking duties for tomorrow, so hooray! We’re going to pick up my sister Linda and we’re driving to the home of her son Rob and his family.  Linda has cooking duties – her (famously delicious) sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes. Meanwhile, I feel like I’m up…

I used to be the Bisquick Queen, lo these many years ago; and then I got away from it.  However, I came across a recipe for Impossible Chicken and Broccoli Pie. Okay then. Time to dust off my Bisquick crown. The theory of Bisquick impossible pies is that you put all your fillings in your…

As you may know, my plan for dealing with winter in Michigan was to stay inside and bake cookies. Well, it’s winter in Michigan.  We’ve had quite a bit of snow (nothing like Buffalo, mind you, but for this California girl, it is still a little alarming). So I should at least be up to…

No. Not cocaine.  No. Not a gang of Caucasians.  No. Not even bird poop. SNOW, ya’ll, I’m talking about SNOW! We woke up Sunday morning, not to a wintery wonderland, exactly; but there was definitely snow – on the ground, on the rooves of houses, on tree branches, and on my car! Wow!  When we…

(FYI WAHFR means “What a huge fucking reief”) Okay.  Biopsy results are in.  Can we have the envelope please? (Drum roll) Negative for malignancy! Yes, both biopsies.  My Doctor’s office called with the results – and that is what they said, “Negative for malignancy.”  I asked, “Both of them?”  And they said, “What do you…

Cont.  So, I’m still behind a day.  Be grateful I’m posting at all.  I am dealing with a very sore boobie.  So when I got home, I read the discharge papers and realized I had cellulitis.  The antibiotics made sense now.  I also need two biopsies on my boob; and although I was told that…

It was such a weekend – it’s taken me an extra day to process. And the star of this weekend – my left boob! Yup, the one where I had breast cancer 1 ½ years ago. Saturday morning, I wake up and my left boob is a spectacular shade of red, hot, and tender to…