One of the most disturbing conversations I have ever had with a doctor was during my month at COEM (Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine). That was an overwhelming time for me, and I suspect many of my fellow patients can relate to that. After years of failing health and the medical profession failing me, … Continue reading
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The Right Doctor at the Right Time
I am changing doctors again which, for me at least, can be a stressful time filled with second guessing. (My autocorrect just changed that to streusel time and wouldn’t it be great if every stressful time was indeed streusel time? Especially if I could eat streusel?) I started working with Dr. Grace Ziem in 2009 … Continue reading
The Great Sofa Search, part 3
They have arrived! My new sofas are lovely and really pull the room together – just like the Dude’s rug. I am enjoying them. My children are not enjoying them because the old sofas had devolved into something so unredeemable that bad furniture behavior was permitted. Jumping, burrowing, rolling, eating drinking etc. So far my … Continue reading
Tilted Mom’s Backstory
Where to begin? If, like me, you know that MCS is usually the result of genetic predisposition combined with environmental exposure, then you might want me to go way back and do family history. But I am trying to blog, not write a dissertation here. So let’s skip ahead with only a brief nod to … Continue reading