Tag: medical
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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.…
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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…