Lux et umbra vicissum…

All of us have ups and downs, right?  We have our exciting moments and our depressing moments and everything in between.  In a sense, we’re all on an emotional roller coaster, it’s just some people have more of the kiddy version (lucky ducks!) while others have the death defying pee-your-pants kind.  (And sometimes we jump […]

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Who among us has not looked up symptoms or information about a diagnosis on the internet?  Let’s be honest: when it comes to what’s going on inside our bodies, we feel like we have a right to as much information as we can get.  The difficult part is sorting through that information in a meaningful, non-paranoid […]

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Have you ever wondered why an illness that isn’t inborn can be so hard to kill?  If you think about it, most sicknesses that you pick up along the road of life are usually fought off by our own immune systems, sometimes with the help of drugs like antibiotics.  There are a few obvious exceptions, […]

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Short version: my cancer is back, but in my eye Back in December, I got a headache that lasted for the whole month, and with it there was a disturbance in the vision of my left eye.  I thought it was an ocular migraine because I’ve had them before, so I just waited for it […]

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It actually started with Eli this time.  One day he started coughing, and next thing we knew we could hear him wheezing and crackling every time he breathed.  Off to the doctor he went, and came back with antibiotics (unnecessary, I think, because it seems viral), a diagnosis of pneumonia, and instructions to do breathing […]

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I was going to say “an all-inclusive update”, but I’m sure I’ll miss something. 🙂  Anyway, I expect this to be a long post by the time I’m done, and since different people check my blog for different reasons I’ll divide it into sub-headings so you can just read the parts that interest you.  The […]

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I really liked my endocrinologist.  He seems like he knows what he’s doing and he’s very personable.  Anyway, he verified my doctor’s diagnosis of pre-diabetes and seconded the opinion that I should use a home glucose meter when I have hypoglycemic episodes so I can see how low my sugar is going.  I may not […]

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I officially have pre-diabetes.  More specifically, I have impaired glucose tolerance, which means that my blood sugar levels are ok when I fast but my body isn’t processing the sugar correctly once it’s given to me.  I have an appointment with an endocrinologist next Tuesday to discuss how to delay and possibly prevent the onset […]

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