Category: Health
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And On The Topic Of Self-love And Acceptance…
And while I’m on the topic of self-love and acceptance… Cue kaftan, joss sticks and Hare Krishna chanting… That trip to the movies symbolized the start of a new chapter for me this week – a chapter I like to call “thinking about myself for a fucking change” – not to be confused with the…
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Ever Feel You’ve Lost Your Way?
I posted this meme on my Instagram page this week and it obviously resonated with my followers, so I thought I’d share it with you. I have a morbid addiction to allowing those “bad chapters” in my life cloud the good ones, and sometimes the clouds get really dark and fluffy, and no matter how…
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Feeling Grateful…Until Your Husband Fucks Up Again
You can usually count on the old man to turn a drama into a crisis. I went into day surgery for a minor gyny procedure today. I won’t scare away my few male followers by sharing the intricate, gory details of the investigative procedure into the over-chartered territories of my almost-defunct uterus, but suffice it…
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When Are You Too Old To Ski?
It might surprise you to know that we are skiing this week – an interesting choice of holiday for two middle-aged people with anxiety with the physical flexibility of two brick walls. I doubled my medication as a precaution. To be honest, I don’t know what the fuck we think we’re doing, either – skiing…
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Empty Nesting: I Know I Will Miss Them, But Will I…Really?
As we approach freedom the next stage of parenting with mounting trepidation, I do question whether I’m ready. I adore both my kids and I will miss those rare moments of family harmony when the four of us sit around the table, laughing and joking together and I can almost forgive them for drinking my…
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What’s The Secret To Being Organized?
It’s Monday, which means compiling my new “to do” list for the week – one that I suspect will contain the exact same number of tasks on it by the end of the day as it has this morning. Would you, like me, prefer to have your labia pierced than do admin? Last week,…
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And The Race Is On For That Medical Marijuana Script
Health concerns continue to dominate the conversation with friends, now evolving at a faster pace than our hatred for world leaders and terrorists. Where ten years ago all we had to grumble about were minor twinges, joint soreness and forgetting the odd name, nowadays we talk about cancer, blood pressure and how often we forget…
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Health Anxiety And The Ability To Identify When There IS Something Actually Wrong
Even though I have a massive health anxiety issue and spend most of my day counting the different ways I will contract cancer on Dr. Google, I rarely go to the doctor. The good news about having a potentially broken finger means that I can give the old man the finger whenever he asks me…
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Middle-Aged Memory Loss: When You Need A Checklist Just To Leave The House
So apparently, the old man also experiences the whole dementia thing, which I had hoped was short-term in my case and attributed to menopause rather than a permanent decline. Getting out of the house together can be a strain these days and the organization we require to remember everything we need has become an embarrassment. We…
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How To Show Restraint At The Inclusive Hotel Buffet Breakfast
I’d never noticed before that skinny women only eat fruit at the hotel buffet breakfast, but since NC kindly (?) gave me my FitBit for Mothers Day, I’ve become much more conscious of the number of calories going into my body versus calories being burned. Due to medical reasons pertaining to my mental health, I…
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Food Goals When You Work From Home
One of the main benefits to working from home, aside from the greater job security than that currently offered by the FBI, is the 24hr on-site cafeteria. I have instigated Google’s food policy in our house. They don’t allow their employees to be further than 200 feet from food at any time – a strategy…
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