The past three weeks, my little family has been dealing with the possibility that our precious 33-year old daughter - known here as “Stinkeroo” - might have inflammatory breast cancer. If you read about that type of cancer, it’ll scare you: aggressive, rare, hard to treat. As I rea...

I grow weary of the knocking copy directed against GPs that appears on a daily basis in the newspapers and from the BBC. Today, it is a report from the dermatologists. I can’t be bothered to go through it in detail – I do not wield the knife myself – but do take a look at the response from the...

Melissa Harris Lacewell is a scholar and friend. I haven’t seen or heard from her in while. She has been out on sick leave. She has penned her first article since since her surgery. Her article is a tribute to her uterus. It is both funny and thoughtful. ——— After a four-year...

There are some things you never want to hear. You never want to hear your small child say "uh-oh", you never want to hear that same child scream in pain. You never want to hear your dentist (or proctologist) say "Oooh, I don't like the look of that".    You never want to hear a t...

... I'd do anything that you wanted me to do...   So Thursday morning I get a call from my doctor telling me that all my tests came back normal. And my first response was "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" She's told my dad and I that I have the C. Difficile. So I dealt with it and was jus...

  So I called my doctors office and asked them to have the doctor call me back as soon as possible, and she did. I have the C. Difficile infection still. I've had it since June, it's been treated twice by Flagyl with no response. I told her this and she said that it was "very rare" to have that...

... it just takes some time...   Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh... So I was pretty dehyderated. Wednesday I threw up all my broth, and wednesday night I threw up most of my laxative stuff. Yuck. It was terrible, hardly slept. So we got up and go to the hospital by 6:45 am, procedure was supposed to be at 7...

.... around and around without any cares....   Today was my colonoscopy. E, T and I left at 1:15, only had to make 3 pit stops for me. Got to the hospital, found the Endoscopy place, checked in. Then went to the pre-procedure/ recovery. I stripped down into a gown, took everything but my socks ...

Went to my cousin's son's 1year birthday party a week ago. If you know anything about Korean culture, you know that the one year birthday (along with the 100 day birthday and the 60 year birthday marks) is considered quite a milestone. People get dressed up, the baby wears a colorful hanbok (trad...