I hadn’t paid much attention to Dallas Buyers Club, until it won two acting Oscars. So when I went to see it the other day, I didn’t know much about it. I actually thought it had something to do with medical marijuana or cancer drugs, but learned that it was actually about AIDS drugs in…
At the tax preparation center today, I had an interesting client. He was a recent immigrant, a grad student, with no income and no reason to file a tax return. In fact, the electronic filing system we use will not accept tax returns if there is no income and no tax due or refunded. But…
My bunnies wish you a happy spring! Such as it is.
When I met Pekoe back in late Oct. he weighed 5.4 lbs and was as thin as a rail. His estimated age was 6 months. Now he’s about 11 months old, weighs about twice what he did then, and measures 32 inches from paw to paw when splayed out like this. A big boy! Jasmine…
So nice that it’s still light when I go to meet Alex after work. There was a gorgeous gold and purple tapestry of clouds over the white expanse of a frozen Walden Pond as I drove by just at sunset.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, I attended leader training for another evidence-based healthy aging workshop. This one was Chronic Pain Self-Management, which is a variant (and very similar to) Chronic Disease Self-Management, developed by Stanford University. So the training was easy, and a little boring, since so much was similar to material I already knew and…
I just learned that the chain Noodles & Company will be opening 10 restaurants in the Boston area. I enjoyed eating at one in Colorado Springs and am looking forward to having them around. Good, fresh food, reasonable prices, many healthy options. First one will be in Shrewsbury, and then Burlington in May. Looking forward…
I had some lovely nurses today. One took care of me while I was waiting, brought me diet coke helped me adjust the chair to put my feet up, and kept me posted on when I would be going in. The other was with me through the procedure and gave me a running commentary about…
If I can keep Pekoe off my keyboard long enough to let me type a few sentences, I just wanted to let everyone know that this morning’s “procedure” at Lahey has been completed with a minimum of discomfort. After a day or so of soreness, I’ll be able to tell if it had any effect.…
Tomorrow morning I’ll be going to Lahey Clinic to get a corticosteroid shot in my thigh to see if it will help the bursitis I’ve been dealing with for two years now. I tried this once before, and it helped for a while, but I had it done at a place where they didn’t use…