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I have written previous diaries on my long stay in the hospital at the beginning of this year that started with a case of MRSA that led into me getting 3 more infections in the span of less than a ...
by EVail
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on Mon Jun 24, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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It’s been nearly a month since I was released from the hospital after having pneumonia. I had a few visits from a nurse to check how I was doing and a couple of visits from a physical therapist to ...
by cohenzee
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on Tue Jun 04, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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I spent the last couple of days in April and the first week of May in the hospital with a terrible case of pneumonia. Back before I had a double valve replacement surgery, pneumonia was something I ...
by cohenzee
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on Tue May 14, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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NOTE: Video is at bottom, skip there if you wish * * * Today, May 4, 2024, marks several notable dates for me. Today is, of course, Star Wars Day, “May the Fourth be with you”. Read that out loud. Now recall the Star Wars trope quote “May the Force Be...
by jtg
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on Sat May 04, 2024 at 05:28 PM PDT
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The hospital is a ten story castle from which daily miracles emerge. The tumor was benign. (The good kind?). It involved four nerves. Two optical movement, one balance and one facial movements. The MRI (which sucks for its loudness) did not show any...
by Tree33
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 01:36 PM PDT
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So I went this morning (Friday the 13th) and had my eye surgery done, and it went fine.� I had a�blepharoplasty�on both eyes, as I couldn’t�look up from swelling in the eye socket.� I only was ...
by Mortifyd
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 04:57 PM PDT
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I found this article on “Religious Trauma Syndrome” (RTS) by Valerie Tarico on 21 September 2023. It is located at : www.alternet.org/… . Now, I suffer from no such thing, as much as I am aware of. My mother stopped our church going by the time I...
by Obiwan711
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on Thu Sep 21, 2023 at 09:24 PM PDT
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I debated about what the write tonight. Considering I am still recovering from my cold and my birthday just occurred, I will write about a depressing topic: how my illnesses usually progress.
90% ...
by cohenzee
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on Tue Aug 29, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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From Scientific American E&E News : This Hurricane Season May See a Key FEMA Disaster Fund Run Out of Money A key FEMA disaster fund and state insurance programs could run out of money to finance ...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Aug 29, 2023 at 01:38 PM PDT
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Please support Maui, if you can. This is an endorsement to help through the Hawai’i Community Foundation Maui Strong Fund One of the fun things I did in my brief time on the Big Island was sweeping the stage under the banyon where Hilo Community...
by greenandblue
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on Sat Aug 26, 2023 at 07:01 AM PDT
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In the Spring of 2001, I got a call from the educational director at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center (now named LGBT), a global leader. She’d read an article of mine on sacred sexuality: Could I teach their members those intimacy skills? All the tantra...
by justCUZ77
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on Mon Jul 03, 2023 at 12:44 PM PDT
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Finally! I just had two days off in a row. I have had a very busy recovery; in fact, I’ve worked most days during it. But 2 days, without having to get dressed or leave my house. It was wonderful!!
by ZenTrainer
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on Mon May 15, 2023 at 05:30 PM PDT
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I was fantasizing about writing this headline. For anyone who read my diary on Monday night of this week, and especially for all of those who made such wonderful and heartwarming comments, nothing short of a miracle has transpired since then. Byron has...
by Max Wyvern
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on Thu May 11, 2023 at 02:50 PM PDT
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Obviously this needs to start with a triggering warning. I’m writing this as a more detailed response to Cmae’s diary yesterday: www.dailykos.com/… Thanks to Cmae for writing that. It took me back, and I’ve been processing a lot since then. I suddenly...
by WireBender73
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on Sat Apr 29, 2023 at 02:32 PM PDT
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This is not a poem. This is a quiet voice, Slow and soothing. It says to you: We escape. We all escape in our own ways. We start by searching endlessly for the way that works for each of us. The mother who has lost a child finds an online virtual world...
by bisleybum
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on Sat Dec 03, 2022 at 12:16 PM PST
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Can we pause the hand wringing over CT and other atrocious GOP behaviour for a moment? It’s all distraction so they don’t have to answer for this, folks! I Googled “Paul Pelosi” and did not find any information on his condition. I only found a recent...
by elenacarlena
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on Tue Nov 01, 2022 at 10:36 AM PDT
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The Independent Australia ranking on economic management (IAREM) for 2022 reveals Switzerland is now the world’s best-managed economy, with the USA languishing outside the top forty. The global table published today by online journal of political and...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Jun 20, 2022 at 03:38 AM PDT
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Am I the asshole here? I like to have a drink now and then. Rarely more than two drinks a week, usually with a meal. Two days ago I posted this quote on my Facebook feed: "Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them,...
by ruleoflaw
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on Sat Feb 05, 2022 at 02:53 PM PST
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As a person in recovery, I have great interest in recovery programs. I have been in recovery since the end of July of 2018. I have been fortunate in that I have never relapsed. My own experience is ...
by Dem
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on Mon Jan 31, 2022 at 04:41 AM PST
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Are You a Gantowisa? by Jamie Terra Hawk ©JTHawk � � � In her book, “Iroquoian Women, The Gantowisas” (Pg.16) Barbara Alice Mann writes “An Iroquoian equivalent of “woman” is gantowisas, ...
by Ushka Waso
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on Wed Mar 02, 2022 at 06:06 PM PST
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