From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Story of the Second Time I Almost Died: Part II

by Alicia 30 September 2009

For background, see Part I.
The ER doctors tested me for a bunch of different things but couldn’t find anything wrong. Meanwhile, different techs kept coming around to take my vitals and reassuring me with statements like, “Huh. My blood pressure machine must not be working.” At one point, my blood pressure was THIRTY-EIGHT OVER NINETEEN. [...]

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Story Of The Second Time I Almost Died: Part I

by Alicia 29 September 2009

Lindsey at Suburban Turmoil recently requested doctor horror stories from her readers. Part of my story made it into her blog (but not the actual newspaper story).
A new friend (in! real! life!) – and I’m not naming names, but let’s just imagine that her name rhymes with Globbin – was telling me this terrible story [...]

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Weekly WrapUp: September 26, 2009

by Alicia 27 September 2009

Just found this meme at Weekly WrapUp. It may or may not be a good idea, but I need to write in order to keep from NOT writing, so here goes.
In the past week, have your contemplated your purpose or other deep, meaningful thoughts?
No. Although I suppose it would depend on how you define “deep, [...]

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How Not To Avoid Appearing Batshit Crazy Around Your Son’s Occupational Therapist

by Alicia 22 September 2009

Kieran has been doing this thing.
If he wants to tell someone something, but he’s too nervous or shy to do it, he tries to engineer some way for me or Brad to say it for him. So, for instance, he’s been seriously obsessed with flight lessons recently. As in, he wants them. Now. When I [...]

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