Mixed Feelings

Spoke with my mom this morning.  “I’ve got great news” she announced. Hoping it was that my recently unemployed dad was no longer among the unemployed, she did share some great news.  The bank wants to help them stay in their house. An internal bank error followed by my mom’s illness that had her travelling…

Visiting Mom

After feeling like shit on Friday, I drove down to see my mom and spend Friday night and Saturday with her.  The drive is a whole other fun story that almost involved me getting to witness and hopefully avoid becoming part of a head-on crash between two other cars.  (That fucker was a lucky bastard…

A Brilliant Way of Looking at It

I am trying not to be “STI information woman”, but given recent events, I feel like spreading information about it will help debunk the stigmas associated with them.  Or at least, that is my hope. Recently Nina Hartley answered a question a reader sent to her about “how to avoid STIs or STDs”.  He was…

Sense of Responsibility

SG and I had a talk today. As I mentioned, I went through another round of testing for HSV2.  He caught me the day before I got retested when he called asking to schedule some time with me.  I had to decline given the situation, and as I promised him back last summer, I told…

When, Not If

Last week, I was reminded of a reality – I will at some point get infected with HSV2. For some of you, this may seem like a pessimistic view, but being married to someone who is infected with HSV2, I know it is only a matter of time. Last week was a flurry of testing…

The Continued Fat-Health Debate

It was about 7 years ago. I had been playing coed softball when I hurt myself. And as I stood on the scale at the doctor’s office, I saw my reality as the nurse slide the big weight to 150, then the pound weight all the way to the end only to shift the 150…

HIV: Then and Now – My Recollection

I was chatting with someone the other day about a documentary I had seen about swinging in the 70s – specifically a swinger’s club in New York City. (American Swing is the name of the movie if interested.) What it reminded me of was the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.  This is when the…

Day 310 – Chills

This infection has done one big thing to me – given me the chills like crazy!I am sitting as close to the fire tonight as I can without crawling into it. I know I just have to get thru it until the advil kicks in, but still….not fun.I’m glad we got wood delivered so I…

Day 309 – Sick

The past two days, I have been feeling like crap. Run down, chills, feverish at times – good stuff.  I was worried I was getting the flu – until my back started hurting. A month ago I had a UTI, got drugs, and got well……or so I thought. According to the doctor, it just headed…

Ancient Chinese Secret

Chinese Medicine. I got my first introduction to is Thursday when I went to Garbanzo’s chiropractor.  Since I have occasional knee pain while I run, Garbanzo has been harassing me to go this his guy.  Garbanzo started going to him when he started playing rugby. The chiropractor was a sponsor of the team gave special…