Last night I faced facts: I don’t have time to write for About.com and live my life, much less work on my memoir. So far I’ve spent at least 20 hrs in the last week working for them, and my life has been insane. I’m exhausted and I have no time to even shower. It’s [...]
Archive for the ‘medicine’ Category
Changing/refining my focus
February 19, 2008
I’m back and modifying my website
February 9, 2008
Hello! Sorry to have been gone so long. I’m back and am modifying my website. In addition to a little personal blogging, I am going to try to focus on writing. Currently, I am very busy trying to qualify as a guide on About.Com regarding headaches and migraines. I just started a 17 day intensive [...]
Better!
December 16, 2007
I’m doing much better today. Either the medrol kicked in or the 2 halves of a pain pill I took yesterday broke the pain cycle. I can breathe. I even think I can sing! So I will be in church today, with bells on . . . I’m very grateful for modern medicine. Everything it’s [...]
Costochondritis–medical info.
December 15, 2007
Well, I appear to have costochondritis. That the diagnosis my real doctor made, Dr. Meyer, who’s an excellent doctor, and it does happen to be what I thought I had. What is it? It’s an inflammation of the junction between the cartilage and the ribs on either side of your sternum (breastbone). Those function sort [...]
Whew!
December 6, 2007
Got them all graded. Whew! Now I have about 20 more to grade by Monday, but that’s a longer time span so it’s not so bad. The semester is winding down . . . Applied for some more writing jobs today. I hope someone wants me! I need to write some devotional samples for Livingstone [...]
Got it done!
December 1, 2007
Well, I got one proposal done–the one on headaches. I just emailed it off to the editor, with my fingers crossed that since they probably don’t start reading till Monday, they’ll accept it as if I got it in on time. Usually I’m more deadline conscious than this, but I only found out about the [...]
Not writing day
November 30, 2007
Well, today, after that auspicious start last night, I am thoroughly brain-dead. Part of it may be some medication that I’m taking. Unfortunately, I can’t stop the medication. Anyway, I wasn’t able to get up early this morning and write, and I haven’t had time to write until now, so unless they accept my monograph [...]
Writing day
November 29, 2007
Well, I spent most of the day teaching, but after class was over at 4 pm I started writing, and I made a lot of progress! I wrote a cover letter, updated my C.V., and outlined the content for the monograph I want to write for the American Academy of Family Physicians on headache. Now [...]
Monday, oh Monday
November 26, 2007
Today everyone has been walking around like zombies. It’s hard to get back in the swing of things after 4 days off. I got up at 6 am–an ungodly hour for me–to work on a monograph I’m writing for AAFP, the American Association of Family Practice, on headaches. Well, actually, I’m not working on the [...]
Teaching English, and punctuation,
November 19, 2007
Today one of the readings for my first year composition class was “Notes on Punctuation” by Lewis Thomas. It was fun. The students were a little confused by it at first because he plays games with punctuation, putting 7 parenthetical comments in a sentence and stuff like that. But they got into it after a [...]
