Archive for the 'General' Category

How long does a virus survive outside the body…

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

You know how when you get statistics from STI resources that give a time frame a virus can live outside the body, how do they determine the upper end? The maximum amount of time? How does the laboratory study compare to real life?
First off, the laboratory determined lifespan is going to be the real and [...]

Health care…

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

I see a lot of Dr.’s these days, outside of my family doctor I have my psychiatrist who I see for medication prescription changes for my major depression, I don’t see him often because I’m not doing therapy with him, he just manages my meds.  I have the rheumatologist who diagnosed me with Fibro +, [...]

walking a dark path

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

You know, life has been throwing me some serious curve balls over the last few years. I just get over the hysterectomy due to 16 rapid growing fibroid tumors in my uterus. To having wide spread pain, and a whole evil check list of symptoms and getting a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia that seems to [...]

Burdens

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I grew up knowing from early childhood on, some people, children and adults, that had the ability to be exceptionally cruel. It was tempting as I got older, into my teens, to see the world in the divisive light, of victims and perpetrators.  It was more tempting however, to try to see things in a [...]

Stepping back

Friday, April 25th, 2008

There’s too much conflict and crisis, drama and negativity in the BC kink scene right now. It seems inescapable and overwhelming.
My day to day struggle to cope with my illness, exhaustion and pain, is more than enough for me on the table stressor wise. I need to eliminate as much incoming stress and responsibility as [...]

Too Much

Monday, April 21st, 2008

It’s a lot to process in my life right now. The puppies are 3 and a half weeks and so adorable, they are starting to play, wag their tails, and show some personality. They are so sweet and it’s going to be hard to let any of them go. There are lots more pictures [...]

3am

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Bijou died in the night, Wolfe was with her when she passed. We did our very best for her. We knew even with the puppy formula, antibiotics, treating the colic, with what the vet had said, it was a big gamble trying to keep her alive. It’s not unusual for a large litter of puppies [...]

Bijou

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Is struggling. She now looks terribly bloated and is crying constantly, we think she has colic and Wolfe has driven off to the drugstore to buy some simethicone to try to settle her poor tummy. The feeding with the puppylac formula and/or the antibiotics is not agreeing with her. Either that or it’s a symptom [...]

Puppies!

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Luna’s puppies we’re born 2 days ago, on the 27th of March. 7 beautiful pups. She had the first two while Wolfe was still at work and I was alone with her, she went into labour fast, and moved through to delivering quickly. We thought we would have time for Wolfe to get home before [...]

Recommended reading

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

If you’re wondering what it’s like to have a disease/disorder/disability where your personal ‘resources’ are limited. This definitely explains one facet of what it’s like to have fibro. I’ve talked a lot about pain, and weakness, but not a lot about how it effects how I move through the world. Other than saying, gee, I [...]

Pain is a bitch

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Pain is turning me into a bitch.
Making me short tempered, angry.
I don’t want to lose control of something else.
I want to be able to control my temper.
It hasn’t been an issue in many many years.
I’m scared the bitch is going to make me a bitch.
I hurt, I get confused, I find myself lashing out.
My brain [...]

Coping and control

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Well, I’ve been having a really bad flare up that’s been ongoing since the night I was in emergency a couple of weeks ago now. For a while I just kind of gave up to the pain and the fatigue and the overwhelming barrage of symptoms. I comforted myself with crappy junk food that was [...]

ETA of puppies…

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Approx 9+ days from now…

Luna, aka Balloona, aka Jabba the Pugg.