Tagged With: health
Laser Eye Surgery
I have always had great eyesight – I was rather surprised this past Saturday when I was straining to see the speaker from the back of the room. But for the most part my eyes are great, and yet everybody around me – my parents, my wife, her sister and husband who live with us, … Continue reading
Review Your Doctor
I decided to take this PayPerPost opportunity because I tried it myself, and it’s legit. The company originally known as Healthia (as seen on ProgrammableWeb and Silicon Beat) is now known as Vimo. They want to build up their database of doctors, so they’re inviting people to rate their doctor in exchange for free songs … Continue reading
Get a PAP!
Ladies…you’re never too young for cancer. I read MyDeathSpace.com for morbid entertainment, and today I spotted China Stogner on there. She just died of cervical cancer – and she was 24 years old. I can’t believe that someone younger than me had to write her own obituary (or at least she seems to have written … Continue reading
About Those Ears
This morning I called my primary care doctor and asked the receptionist if I should go there first, or straight to a specialist. She said to come there, and gave me an 11:15am appointment. So I left work and went over there, and my doctor was pretty surprised by how big the hole was in … Continue reading
Ouch, My Thumb
Well, I am typing this entry very slowly, because if I type with my right thumb the bandaid will fall off. So all spaces are being typed with my left thumb. Possible squicking ahead, by the way. I didn’t pay attention to the texture of the new paddle shaft. It’s woven, and I had gotten … Continue reading
Lactose Intolerant Doesn’t Mean Stupid
I was rather surprised by the following news bite from the Washington Post: A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that called for milk sold in the District to carry a warning label for people who are lactose intolerant. The suit, filed by an organization that promotes vegetarian diets, asserted that Giant, Safeway and other … Continue reading
Hearing Test
I had my hearing tested today. I have flaccid eardrums; the audiologist recommended seeing a physician to make sure nothing is wrong (she implied that sometimes there’s a cause, and sometimes people just are that way). Flaccid eardrums mean that it’s harder for sound to make my eardrums vibrate – the eardrum moves with the … Continue reading
Quicklinks for 2006-05-27
I took the Lloyd’s test again and did much better, but when I did the Audacity tones again with headphones I couldn’t hear the tones – and yet I could hear them without headphones. So who knows if it’s the computer, or my hearing, or what. All I know is that last night, :A: could … Continue reading
Hearing Loss
Well, this is interesting. I have a mild hearing loss at high frequencies, apparently. This was prompted by an NPR story about the “Mosquito” teen repeller, which plays a 17kHz tone to drive away unruly teens hanging around stores and other establishments. I had been able to hear the sample tone played on the radio, … Continue reading
Exhausted
I am profoundly tired. I am so tired it makes me want to cry. And I did cry last night, over some little thing, just because I was so exhausted I couldn’t handle it. I can no longer concentrate, and my thinking is affected. It’s not that I didn’t sleep last night, because I did, … Continue reading