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Yes yes. Updating

Published on February 4, 2010 in Health. 1 Comment

Bad! I’ve had all these things happening and didn’t post them. I have just been so busy with a lot of stuff that I literally didn’t have time to sit down and blog about it. By the time evening came ’round I was pooped and just wanted to go to bed.

I’ll do a bullet update list.

  • Next week a personal trainer is going to kick my ass in the first try out session. Yes I’m switching to a personal trainer.
  • I have been doing research on my family, going generations back – if that one link between my grandfather and great grandfather and great-great grandfather works out – there’s a couple dozen entries and we’re not quite sure which is which. IF it works out… I am an 11th generation, and more if I go back before 1700’s.
  • Random: you can now formspring.me! So ask those questions already!
  • I received a copy of my medical history and it seems that there is a missing link or two. Since I clearly remember having my wrist split open because I hit a garbage bag and had to go to hospital – and yet it is not in the medical history overview.
  • I also received a copy of my mother’s medical history, including her autopsy report (which, according to my family physician I shouldn’t even have gotten that information, but whatever, I still got it), and found out what it exactly was that killed my mother. Plus, I found out that there was severe degeneration of the aorta valves, which the coroner could not depict if that was from the infarction or if that had been going on a while…
  • … and because my mother’s biological brother also had an infarction of which he died… I am going to discuss the option of getting an ultrasound to check if I may have the same thing. BUT I am not sure if I want that or no.
  • Speaking of biological family…. I am in the process of submitting a form to an organization that will help me search for my mother’s biological family and in turn possibly find out if there was indeed a heart problem in the family… and hopefully why the hell they gave my mother away.
  • Random: This is way too cute for words.
  • I now have TWO leaks in the basement… FML
  • I am getting laser therapy for Hirsutism – thankfully it is not that excessive as some people, and only in the beard area, but enough it  requires me to shave and thus mess up my skin, which is more worrisome than the actual hair. and yes… I JUST TOTALLY ADMITTED THIS ON MY BLOG. GET OVER IT

Yeah, I’d say that’s about it for now.

Hello November 30th

Published on November 30, 2009 in Health and Internet. 0 Comments Tags: .

Why hello there end of November. Did you know that your last day is the last day of National Blog Writing Month? Well now you do and by posting this blog I will have made it through my first ever NaBloWriMo! Yay me! You know what. I think I might be able to keep up with posting daily, or at the very least every other day.

Doing a semi-forced posting of entries actually made me take more time to just sit down for about fifteen minutes (average length) and think about what I’ll be writing. Sometimes I’ll think of it in the morning but I won’t have time until later in the evening (like uhm, lets say a few minutes before midnight) so I just jot it down on paper somewhere so as not to forget it.

Yay to me again for making it through.

Also. I’ve been nauseous for the past hour or so. I DO NOT want to throw up, but it feels like THAT kind of nauseous. The constant need to cough isn’t helping much either.

Wait… What?

Published on November 26, 2009 in Health and WTF Moment. 0 Comments

So here I was just reading the news before I headed to bed and here was this about permanent breast lifts with an INTERNAL bra. Yes, you read that right. An INTERNAL bra. Apparently you’ll be in by morning and out by lunch in a 40 minute procedure. Yes, they already know – the first procedure has already been done.

The Cup & Up bra is the invention of leading Israeli plastic surgeon Eyal Gur who has been besieged by women wanting the operation after they discovered his research on the internet.

He said: ‘This might not quite be the end of normal the bra, but we’ve shown that with a very small operation that it’s possible to give a woman an internal bra that she can have for the rest of her life.’

Now you are probably thinking how the heck they did this. It seems that two cuts of less then a centimeter wide will be made in each breast after which silicone cups (similar to that of normal bras, except, they’ll be made of silicone, the stuff that’s used for implants)  will be inserted a centimeter below the skin surface. Then the surgeon will take two long straps of strong material and attach them to the ribs between the breast and the shoulder.This is kinda hard to explain so let me show you a picture:

Yup, that's your internal bra

Yup, that's the internal bra

And it is said that the first procedure done on a 30 year old woman was a success and it’s been said that there have been a few more lined up to have it done as well… just enough to get them to the trials and approved by the Medical Majiggy.

Now let me ask. Would this be comfortable? Wouldn’t you be able to feel the thing in your boob. Not to mention the two straps! Will it be flexible enough to move with your body and you don’t feel like there’s four pins, two for each breast, stuck inside of you. And for heaven’s sake what if those things BREAK. What if they come detached from the ribs. I mean sure they’ll be attached with titanium screws. And what about scar tissue?

And ladies, I get the appeal of them, well actually I DON’T get the appeal of the internal bra, but I DO get the appeal of wanting to have nice and perky breasts (especially for those who had to have them removed for reasons you wouldn’t want to think of), but what I don’t get is that thing getting in your boob.

For the sagging ladies, it’s NOT just the putting in of the bra, but it will ALSO be completely remodeling the boob. I mean I don’t know a whole lot about surgery and all that jazz, but even if you attach something to the INSIDE of the boob, there’s always going to be skin left, you don’t just prop up the tissue inside and expect the skin to automatically plop right back the way it used to be. It sometimes take years to get the skin sagging in the first place, how long do you think it will take the skin to get back WITHOUT a little nip and a little tuck.

I’m sure there are a ton of explanations out there for these questions, but I still do not get the appeal. Implants I get and the nipping and tucking of the to much skin I also get, but getting things screwed to your ribs just doesn’t appeal to me.

This cold is getting so old so fast

Published on November 25, 2009 in Health. 0 Comments

There’s this whole flu thing going around my environment lately and I’m not even talking about N1H1. I’m talking about the regular flu/cold. How the heck am I supposed to get better when everyone around me is getting sick. I started last week, I believe around Tuesday / Wednesday. My throat was starting to hurt and I could barely breath because my nose was so stuffed up.

I am a nose breather and not a mouth breather. Now I know that the medically correct way to breath IS actually through the nose, since it warms up the air you take in and the nose hairs and such filter the air for any bug related things and quite frankly it is a much more attractive sight and smell if you breath through your nose.

So I could barely breath and I am usually vehemently against using more than just an Ibuprofen to keep the fever away, but I just couldn’t stand it. I got myself a Xylometazoline based nose spray and suddenly I could breathe again. Things went okay for a couple of days, I was still really tired, but that is to be expected since your body is fighting off a virus. Then there was the coughing and the dry heaving and sometimes the vomiting and the coughing up slime, which when just thinking about makes my stomach churn.

I went to Ikea today to get a desk lamp and on the way there I nearly left this earthly plane I was coughing so bad. Thankfully I was alone in the bus, save for of course the driver, so the embarrassment part was not so high, but the almost coughing to death was not so fun. The driver even stopped at one of the stops and got out of his seat, walked up to me and was all like “Woman, are you ok?”

In between the taking of breaths and coughing I got out a ‘Yup, fine. Need water’ and luck have it, he had a bottle of water and handed it to me. After making sure I would not die on his shift, he returned to his seat and continued his route. One of the scariest bus ride I EVER took. Thank you bus driver for having that bottle of water handy, and sorry I took it with me.

Don’t let it ruin your dinner

Published on November 21, 2009 in Health. 0 Comments

Ok, with the following I am probably going to gross out A LOT of people so I am going to put this behind a continue reading break. Do not read if you’re sensitive to anything that concerns throwing up. I will go in extensive detail. In the previous post I told you about the whole being able to breathe again thing after taking the medicine. Well, that is actually still going good, this is something a lot more gross and annoying. Continue reading ‘Don’t let it ruin your dinner’

I can breathe!

Published on November 19, 2009 in Health. 0 Comments

I hate getting colds and getting sick. I always have the nose colds which means I can’t breathe properly (I am a nose breather) and my throat dries up from breathing through my mouth. Then I get headaches from all the sniffling and for some odd reason I get the urge to vomit because I can’t breathe through my nose. What’s up with THAT? Does anyone else have that?

It is so friggin’ weird. I am already struggling to breathe and then I’m dry heaving and CAN’T breathe. It tires me I get teary eyed because it damn well hurts and then I get some more headaches.

I bought some nose spray, Xylometazoline, that is a POWERHOUSE. I’ve only had to use it twice since I got it this afternoon, and it can actually be used up to 4-6 times a day. When I took it the first time I was able to breathe for about 3 hours and then my nose started to clog up again. This was to expected however since I always clog up far worse in the evening/night then I do during the day.

I also bought some tablets that I can suck on for my throat pain. It has a the painkiller Lidocaine in it which acts, together with other stuff in the tablet, as a form of sedative/pain killing drug to make the throat less susceptible for pain. Yay for that. Tastes HORRIBLE, but yay for the less pain.

Next to that I’m also keeping fever at bay with the occasional (once or twice a day) Ibuprofen. So far it is going good. Especially since I can breathe and will probably have a much better night’s rest ahead of me.

That damn neck thing

Published on November 5, 2009 in Health and Life. 0 Comments

Dude, I am going to chop this damn muscle out one of these days.

I have discussed in detail what is going on with my neck in a previous post, but this is FAR from being over. There is this one muscle that keeps messing things up in there and makes it uncomfortable and sometimes painful to turn my head to the right. I have my last physical therapy appointment next Friday and I’m not sure if that is enough.

Unfortunately, as I’ve looked up, my health care provider doesn’t cover more than 11 sessions a year. A fortunate thing is that the sessions cost a little under 28 euro. If I continue the sessions every two weeks it would mean that I’d have to cough up about 70 euro to tie me over until the new year when it is covered by health care.

Every time that muscle starts to act up I get the feeling that there is a whole lot more going on than just a muscle tension from stress, especially after all the work the therapist put in getting everything relaxed and in better working order. Occasionally I also get this pulling sensation and feel the right side is pulling everything up and gives off a crooked sensation.

I’ll talk all of this over with the therapist of course, and depending on what she says I might just go visit the doctor again and ask what he has to say. I just simply can not believe that it is a ’simple’ muscle cramp related to stress.

Oh the pain in the leg

Published on October 29, 2009 in Health. 0 Comments

Lately I’ve had all sorts of cramps and aches in my body, most notable is of course the pain in the neck, but this morning I was in a whole different league of pain. I woke up with a slight cramp in my left calve, nothing to worry about. I did a little stretch and all of a sudden my leg was completely locked up and shooting bolts of lightening through the calve muscle.

I could not move my ankle up and down or even rotate the foot. It was completely locked in a 90 degree angle (the ‘normal’ position when you stand on it). And dang did it hurt. I nearly flew through the roof. It stayed locked for about half a minute. Longest 30 seconds I’ve ever experienced. After it passed the majority of the pain went away, save for the little stabs when I put to much pressure on it, or stretch it out.

Gonna ask my physical therapist on how to deal with it, maybe she’ll even give it a little massage to loosen the muscle up.

Oh that pain in the neck

Published on October 28, 2009 in Health. 0 Comments Tags: , .

A little bit ago I wrote about the pain in my neck and how it goes on fire whenever I have an added dose of stress. Heck, before I went to see a physical therapist about my neck, the muscle on the right side would cramp up on the mere HINT of stress.

While the massages helped loosening up the muscle and it doesn’t cramp up as much as it used to do, I still think there is something wrong with my neck. Perhaps the muscles are not the only problem that needs fixing. I think it may even be the vertebrae, or whatever those bones in the neck are called. When I move my head to a side, it almost feels as if there’s sand in between them. It certainly sounds that way, like sand in between two flat stones.

Then again I don’t think I’m even properly aligned in my whole back. Sometimes it feels like I’m uneven. I have an appointment with my physical therapist this Friday, so I am going to consult with her on this and I might even call my doctor. The amount of times that I feel the need to crack my neck or my back is unsettling, but sometimes it is the only way to make the uncomfortableness go away.

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