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Instructions on using the coil machine.

  • Playing with children

    After that very long meditation on Lyme and fertility yesterday, I found myself playing for several hours with my cousin’s two very young children. One is 8 months old, the other is just under 2 years old. I enjoyed them.… Continue reading

  • Women and Lyme Disease

    Every month, during my menstrual cycle, I’m reminded of what Lyme disease has done to my body and what it has done to the trajectory of my life. Menstrual Problems For years (specifically 2002-2010) my menses were horrible. As I… Continue reading

  • Taxes

    Tonight I filed my taxes. Given my current financial situation, it was pretty straightforward to do it online. I brought in a small enough amount that I didn’t even have to pay to e-file. I recently read an article in… Continue reading

  • Buffalo Mozzarella

    Every now and then, my mother picks up fresh buffalo mozzarella imported from Italy. It has tons of calories (fat) and lots of protein.  I’m not allergic to it the way I am with cow dairy. And it tastes like… Continue reading

  • Happy feet

    Hot, itchy, happy feet. I went for the detoxifying, ionizing footbath today. At one level, it meant sticking my feet in hot water for 25 minutes while the water turned rust-colored. Apparently, the first think the bath pulls out is… Continue reading

  • Chest pains

    Not a heart attack. There is a very specific kind of pain that I’ve had since just after the time when I’m sure I was bitten by a tick in 2001. It starts out as a sharp pain, like the… Continue reading

  • Bright lights, big screen

    I was checking out my friend Craig’s blog today and found a post about f.lux. It is a program that changes the color temperature of a computer screen depending on the time of day. Craig and f.lux explain all the… Continue reading

  • Restless and Lethargic

    I’m still sitting out the Herx. All day I’ve been feeling like I can’t move, can’t get up, can’t get started. At the same time, I’m bored and can’t settle down. I’m not really sure where all the hours went.… Continue reading

  • Rethinking and revising

    When doing science at the most basic level, the idea is to make observations. Try different conditions one at a time, make more observations, then form a hypothesis. Once the hypothesis is made, generate a series of tests (an experiment)… Continue reading

  • Not a (well) controlled experiment

    I’ll start with two things I mentioned in passing yesterday: my diet and my juicing recipe. Juicing Recipe The juicing recipe is easy. At present, my mother puts the following in the juicer and I drink it. 1/2 a cucumber… Continue reading