Wednesday, August 12, 2009
I am shocked by a subculture I just found on flickr, which I should have already guessed was present, since it’s widespread on the Internet through personal websites… The pro ana people.
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One of my photos has a shot of the cover of the book “Thin” (Greenfield, Lauren, David B. Herzog, and Michael Strober. 2006. [...]
I had to write this up for some homework tonight, and thought I would share. It’s a quick little thing about early warning signs of cancer.
This isn’t a comforting list, because a lot of these symptoms also accompany chronic disease, but it’s better to be aware of them and get them checked [...]
Richard recently mentioned what he believed to be a Chinese blessing, “May you live in interesting times”. Turns out this phrase was actually a (probably misattributed) Chinese curse. Hilarious.
Summer has been interesting so far. I can’t say that interesting is always pleasant, but… at least I’m finding things interesting in the first [...]
Are you pretty sure that people at work don’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom and touching their bits? That’s gross. You should print this out and put it up. (I licensed it Creative Commons because I am such a big a fan of asepsis.)
It’s very bloggy just to post saying that I’m in crisis right now, but… I am doing it anyway. I’m in crisis. I will go into more detail about it more later, but I just want to shake my fist and pound things, because I feel sick, I am very behind in school, [...]
I was just thinking about “active listening” and generated a little revelatory hypothesis.
First let me define “active listening” as I know it. This is the listening technique I am supposed to use as a Medical Assistant, when I am taking a patient history. This is listening where you are entirely focused on the [...]
Smoking!
O cigarettes! How I hate you for your mind-blowing addictiveness!
I am quitting now, for real this time, as a present to myself for my 30th year. I recently read David Sedaris’ “When You Are Engulfed In Flames,” where Sedaris talks about his decision to quit. He mentions hearing a non-native English speaker [...]
A while ago, I took some really gross photos of mold from a tupperware I found in the back of my fridge:
I was wondering what prevented the mold spores I inadvertently inhaled while taking these photos from implanting in my moist, dark lungs, and a friend (”FRIEND”) pointed out that nothing really does, so people [...]
Monday, February 16, 2009
I’ll preface this by saying that I’m now in school full time studying to become a Medical Assistant (more about that later, but basically this means that in my first quarter I am studying all anatomy/physiology/pathology).
So I was reading the oncology chapter last night, and while I was reading and sort of having a panic [...]
I suffer from migraines… a lot. I’ve finally made it to the point where I’m ready to call a neurologist for an intake appointment, and I’ve picked my neurologist, and I bought a book my massage practitioner recommended (she is also a “migraneur”). I read most of the book, and let’s just say [...]