October 31, 2017 Dr. Sharon Olson wrote in my medical file with HelloMD: “Since she is over 50 she cannot make vitamin D in her skin anymore, so she must supplement vitamin D3 and she must have her vitamin D blood level checked mid‐summer and midwinter and adjust her vitamin D3 intake accordingly.” After Dr….
Month: October 2017
HelloMD
It was not until one day, when I casually asked again how to go about getting a medical marijuana card, that a longtime friend, both on Facebook and in real-time, answered specifically that the best dispensary was Harborside in Oakland and I could get a card through HelloMD. Since my friend’s husband is a retired…
Phone appointment with physical therapist
October 26, 2017, 10:15 a.m. The phone appointment with a physical therapist was scheduled for the next day. He identified himself as Aaron Hopkins, and I wondered if he was the same man that had conducted the Neck Pain Class. But I didn’t ask. I also failed to ask him about the TENS unit (for…
Exploring the Possibility of TENS
As the days passed and I was not able to find any pain relief, I wondered about a TENS unit and emailed Dr. Chan. She responded: ANGELA LAI CHAN MD 10/25/2017 02:01 PM RE: Pain Relief for Chronic Neck Pain Dear Jackie Thank you for your email and taking time to follow up with me….
Office Max Purchase
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…
“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…