Tag: medical

  • Anna vs. H. pylori, or, the Very Bad No Fun Not Good Weekend

    Anna vs. H. pylori, or, the Very Bad No Fun Not Good Weekend

    A lot of you who follow me on the social networks and/or who also follow got all this in real time as we were posting about it, but for those of you who might have missed it, I was in the hopsital from Wednesday night until yesterday morning. What put me there was a bleeding…

  • A moment of medical self-reflection

    A moment of medical self-reflection

    I went in for my semi-annual checkup with my endoc this evening, the last holdout of my adventures with the BFFN. Which went well, as expected, though I had to sheepishly explain to Dr. Kohn that I was ragged around my edges thanks to dental surgery AND fighting off a cold. And on the way…

  • That promised post about stuff besides books

    That promised post about stuff besides books

    So yeah, I’ve actually been doing things besides purchasing books lately, I swear! The Great Enshrinkening of Anna proceeds apace, even if not quite as quickly as initially planned. As I enthused on Twitter and Facebook this morning, I hit 164 pounds today! Which is well and easily the lightest I’ve been in five years,…

  • Exercise update

    Exercise update

    I’m down to 178 pounds as of this morning, which is frankly stunning to me. That’s three pounds for this week, which is twice as much as I was expecting based on earlier performance in this whole endeavor. And it’s down a half a pound from yesterday, even though I had two breadsticks with pizza.…

  • Ten pounds less of ME

    Ten pounds less of ME

    This morning when I got on the scale I saw a lovely number I hadn’t seen in over a year: 182. Which meant, much to my delight, that I have now hit the 10 pound mark in the great initiative to lose 42 pounds by June! So yeah, thus far the whole LoseIt app on…