Saw my internist today. Here's my new diet regimen to lower my triglycerides: 100 gram carbohydrates per day, 60 grams fat day, no more than 5 nuts (preferrably walnuts), no olive oil (save [...]
So, back in November both my internist and my psychiatrist wrote out lab requests for me to fill. Put it off until January because I was nervous as to what the results might [...]
I've been blogging for three years! Yay! Hope to do more writing. Hands full this week caring for my son. He's going through a rough patch. His migraine medication (anti-seizure medication topiramate aka [...]
Thank you everyone who supported me Saturday for NAMIWalks. I raised over $1,500. The team I walked with, the Stigma Smashers, raised over $9,000. Unfortunately, I started to feel weak and dizzy. Being [...]
On edge Fingers shaking Irritable Prickly Damn, what one missed med dose can do to one's body
As my mind has slowed, I've gone from prolific blog writing to playing solitaire on my iPad. Back to the inane, the mundane. Not as creative, but better able to take care of [...]
Now that I'm on a higher dose of Depakote (valproic acid), I'm always hungry and have a headache. I cannot satiate my hunger, and I tire of popping ibuprofens to relieve the dull [...]
My son designed this mosaic tile shelf which I recently made. Having ordered a box of random broken Talavera tile, I ended up with a lot of yellow tile. Apparently yellow was not [...]
Depakote (valproic acid) dosage increased. Thoughts slowed way down. Now slogging through my mind. Inspiration gone. Where is my muse? Know I needed to slow down, to catch my breath. Know this increased [...]
At one point in the past year, in an attempt to de-clutter a hopelessly cluttered house, I tossed all of my letters, journals, papers, and essays into the recycling. Later I regretted it [...]