I had become increasingly dissatisfied with my desk chair which I had purchased in 2010. I got it because it could lean back with an elevated foot rest, but there was never really quite room enough in my home office on Haight Street to completely lean it back. When I got it, I then took…
Author: Jacquie
I am a wife, mother, grandmother, pet co-parent, web designer, copy editor, type 2 diabetic, migraineur, and chronic pain warrior. In seeking to reverse diabetes, I have become in search of healing for myself and my family.
“Behold, I have given you every green plant”
I have spent many years wishing I had a medical cannabis card. It has been legal in California since 1996, the year I moved to California from Texas. That, in itself, should have some significance. But for the last five years, I have not known where to look or who to ask to find out…
Neck Pain Class
October 12, 2017, 10:45 a.m. Well, this was in the Physical Therapy Department, but not with an individual physical therapist. The room looked vaguely familiar. I would remember later that I had been to a neck pain class after that accident several years ago when our van got sideswiped by a non-insured driver as we…
Dr. Chan’s First Referrals
After that “memorable” appointment with Dr. Chan, when she told me I was too old to have any pain medication, I emailed her that I was still having neck pain and thought maybe I should have a referral to Physical Therapy. This was her response: ANGELA LAI CHAN MD 09/25/2017 11:23 AM RE: Follow up…
Deal Breaker Appointment
This was my annual “free” physical checkup that Medicare is required to offer. I had already checked my lab test results and so I knew that my A1C was 5.9%—right in the middle of the “pre-diabetes” range! I was so elated with this news that it didn’t really bother me that Dr. Chan was on…
Vegetarians Are Snarky
A couple of days ago I posted on my Facebook Timeline, “Vegetarians/vegans can be really snarky. Except for my daughter. She’s cool.” And, believe it or not, that elicited an enormous response! AL said, “Yes, they can.” VG said, “Yes, some of them can be pretty much like religious fundamentalists. Eat meat and you are…
At The Old Spaghetti Factory
Today was a good test for me. I attended the Pride on the Plaza Festival in Concord and ate with our Church 1.0 group at The Old Spaghetti Factory. While everyone else was having pasta and spumoni and Italian sodas, I had iced tea, house salad (no croutons), and one link of Italian sausage. I…
Losses
Today my friend Ryan Bell posted this: “Some losses are a song interrupted. Some run their course and make coherent sense but sudden ruptures are deeply unsettling. Like a chord unresolved, it irritates and agonizes, not necessarily even because you loved the song so much, but because that’s not how music is supposed to work. Like a story that…
May Challenges for Healing
Today I am beginning a 30-day challenge with the Atkins group, based on Dr. Eric Westman’s book, The New Atkins for a New You. Now that I have my migraines and Dawn Phenomenon under better control, I think I can do this! Plus, I just discovered that Dr. Westman uses Net Carbs and I’m so used…
Ryan Bell Is Back!
I posted this on Facebook yesterday (March 29, 2017): Ryan Bell is back! After a 6-month “hiatus” from podcasting, he has just published another one. And I just finished listening to it. I have been curious about what he’s been doing, other than being at Iron Triangle Brewery, but I figured he’d tell us sooner or…