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…
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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…
Vegans
I posted this on my Facebook Timeline: I have discovered that vegans are more closed-minded and hateful than Adventist non-vegetarians. This began a discussion, as follows: RB: I think it depends on the reason they are vegan. JN: There may be some correlation with rigid thinking that makes people hold on too tightly to their…
EKG and Holter heart monitor
I really thought I should ask Dr. Chan about my heart palpitations during our telephone appointment on February 13, 2017, and at least have it documented in my medical records that I reported having heart palpitations. She ordered an EKG and a Holter heart monitor, a device that I wore for 24 hours then took…
Lab Tests Ordered
2/14/17 I was surprised to get this order for blood tests since it had been nine months since my last A1C. I’m really more concerned about my chronic neck pain and heart palpitations! So I was equally surprised to see my A1C had gone down from 6.8% (last May 2016) to 6.4%. I wrote in…
Heart Palpitations
In February 2017, I was still having constant neck pains. I tried using my shiatsu massager that I keep by my bed. It made my neck feel better, but only for the 15 minutes I used it before it shuts off automatically. I frequently fell asleep during that 15 minutes! I would like to have…
Migraines and Nortriptyline
Dr. Chan referred my complaint of a long siege of migraines to my neurologist, who sent the following email in response to Dr. Chan’s order to TRIPLE my current dose of nortriptyline. From: BRET DAVID ANDREWS DO Sent: 8/18/2016 7:40 PM PDT To: Jacqueline Hegarty V Subject: Neurology Hello– Got a message form Dr Chan…