She walked it well enough, until the kidney disease. She hovered around that threshold for a couple of years:Stage 1 symptomsshowing up in the blood work from one check-up and thenNo, wait, back to normalthe next. But kidney disease is a patient and implacable fucker; two thirds of all...
I cried for two days and tried to hide my feelings. I knew wherever she was, she was watching over me, helping me along my journey, and that however hard things in the future were going to be, she would be right there beside me. Murder I hate murderers. They freak me out. I ...
(Yes, some enteroviruses are responsible for polio — but that's not a concern for people who have been vaccinated.) Between the months of June and October, your cold symptoms might be traced back to enterovirus. What are the symptoms of a summer cold? In adults, non-polio enterovirus ...
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0 Wheat There is gluten in everything these days. It's so hard to avoid, and there is no cure. If you eat it, you must suffer the consequences for three days. At least for me, it's three days of pain, discomfort, and exhaustion, among other gross symptoms. I have a friend who...
Exposing yourself to extremely hot, dry temperatures for short periods is a natural immune-boosting method. The sauna is your friend when considering the benefits of“environmental conditioning”—that is, forcing your body to adjust to extreme heat or cold. ...
A poor little turtle was found in Fort Worth to be stuck in a block of concrete in 1976. The turtle was freed but died a few days later. The craziest part was the turtle was in the concrete for about a year. People still wonder...how did that turtle get there in the first place...
A few days later I went to see my primary care physician to address my phobias. She furrowed her brows when I asked her whether it could’ve been HAPE. “It seems unlikely,” she explained. She added that the high level of exertion, paired with the elevation may have caused a reaction...
we are in the midst of a slow cultural shift that rejects the dismissive paternalism that has been typical in medicine. Recently, theBritish Medical Journal started a discussionon which phrases used in medicine annoy patients, like saying “complaints” to describesymptomsor “denies” as in “de...
hurling each other’s Lego constructions across the room over some perceived insult. Yet in a way Clyde was my first son—the first dog who was not a family dog and for whom I had, after Kasey and I parted, sole responsibility. It was a responsibility that kept me alive on days when...