What’s worse than waking up and feeling that familiar queasy feeling? What’s worse than throwing up your empty stomach from the night before? What’s worse than throwing up the one tiny quarter piece of peanut butter toast and water you had?
Doing it on the morning of your birthday party when you are 5 years old.
Poor [...]
Archive for the ‘health’ Category
23 Aug
Dreadful Stomach Bug
10 Aug
Later Consequences of Divorce
I’m a child of divorce. My parents divorced when I was 8 or 9, after an unhappy marriage of 9 years. I now have a wonderful stepfather (who we will call my father…and who is no longer married to my mother), my mother (whom I love), and my real father (with whom I have little [...]
7 Aug
Healthcare: Interesting article and UK Wait times in hospitals for cancer treatment
I decided to do a little research today and found an interesting article and also some statistics from the UK government website where you can access their healthcare system statistics. Thought I would share. When viewing the UK government site, notice there is a menu on the right side where you can further check things [...]
4 Aug
Healthcare for Clunkers?
I have to question our government when it passes programs through that are supposed to last for months, only to have them last for 1 week! The program I am talking about is Cash For Clunkers.
The government is further subsidizing the auto industry outside of the auto bailouts so that people can receive credit on [...]
22 Jul
Fitness Update
It’s been a while since I mentioned fitness here. That’s not because I quit working out (I don’t think I could ever do that!). I am officially at a maintenance level in my diet and exercise. I still go at least 5 days a week. I have been replacing one day each week with tennis. [...]
4 Jul
I Think I Need a New Schedule + Other Things
I apologize for being somewhat absent for the past 2 weeks. Everything in my house has gotten dirty during this time too. I have been working online on my new tutoring business like crazy. I am getting to the point where I should be able to section off my days again and work a little [...]
15 Jun
Ketchup Kid
We made a discovery this past week. Apparently Ernie likes ketchup just enough to try put new foods up to his mouth if things are dipped in it. As of today, I am including ketchup on his plate for every meal. Maybe he will venture out of his little culinary cocoon and experiment. Last night [...]
6 Jun
The Potty Wiper-Upper
Today we were shopping at a local grocery warehouse and Bert had to go to the restroom. Our cart was full, I had Ernie with me too, and we had already made one trip to the bathroom in the hour we had been there. I asked him if he could wait and he told me [...]
18 May
Ringworm
Went to the doctor today to confirm…Yes, My 2 year old has ringworm!! YUCK!!! I got some Lamisil and we have applied it. Right now he has 4 of them. 1 on his leg, and 3 on his arm. Yesterday he only had 3…and yesterday morning all I thought he had was a couple of [...]
15 May
I Admit It…
Okay, if you have read this blog for a while or know me well, you know that I am pretty “flighty.” A couple of weeks ago I started running 3 miles. I was quite proud of myself and doing well, except that everytime I ran, I would spend a day with a sore hip [...]
16 Apr
Wished it Would Have Occurred to Me that Breathing While Running is a Technique Learned
This morning I got up and really was not looking forward to the fact that today was a “running” day. The idea of going to the gym was okay…that didn’t bother me, but I DID NOT feel like running.
We got up there and I got on the treadmill. I put on Emeril and started walking [...]
3 Apr
He Squealed Like a Girl
Big Brother has recently been able to chew bubble gum for the first time. When I first gave in and gave it to him I told him that he should throw it away and not swallow his gum. When he asked me why, I told him it wasn’t good for his body to swallow his [...]
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