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Bumps Back Of Tongue - Articles
On Always Being Behind In Electronics Purchases & Tongues & Scalps
by
Kayren
Posted
Wed 29 Jun 2011 12:26am
We (as in Hubby and I) have always been behind the electronics power curve. We'd just assume wait until the models get better and the prices go down.
Plus we're kind of electronics wimps.
We didn't get our first VCR until 1991. It seems like everyone we knew had them already.
Answering machine — we didn't get one of those until 1998-ish. ...
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Posterior Tongue Tie and Breastfeeding
by
HUG Your Baby
Posted
Thu 01 Nov 2012 12:00am
Pain with breastfeeding can have multiple causes. Sometimes is takes detective work to unearth the problem and plan a solution. Join us in celebrating a victory for this young mother dedicated to exclusively breastfeeding her little one!
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Eloquence of a Bump on the Head
by
Leah C.
Posted
Mon 22 Nov 2010 10:25am
A crowded bookshop-cafe, a harried white female Cantabrigian of about forty, wearing hipster glasses and a fitted leather jacket. With a clipped, "Excuse me," she doesn't quite push her way past the line of customers, but cuts a vexed path through. Going around the side of the cakes counter, she gathers two metal scooters from where they'd been s ...
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Beef Tongue with Cajun Gravy
by
CaveGirlEats
Posted
Wed 10 Aug 2011 12:00am
Approximately one week ago I crawled into a hole, sad and alone. I vowed never to come out. I’d missed my flight to the Ancestral Health Symposium – and from that, one can’t recover. (Scroll to the end for **details. Because I know how much you care.)
Buuuut since the whole point of constantly running my mouth is to assault the ears o ...
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Tongue Retaining Device for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Does It Work?
by
Dr. Steven P.
Posted
Mon 19 Oct 2009 10:02pm
1 Comment
There are many variations of oral appliances to treat snoring and obstructive sleep apnea, but one variation that you may not have heard of is the tongue retaining device (TRD). There are also different variations of TRDs, from suction bulbs to hybrid mandibular advancement device-TRDs. Here’s one example and here’s another. Here’s a good review ...
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The World’s Longest (and Most Overdue) Blog Entry
by
Rebecca ..
Posted
Sun 17 Jan 2010 8:24pm
2 Comments
In my last entry to this blog, I promised myself and my readers that I would be showing up here in Chronic Town more regularly. I’ve certainly stretched the limits of what “regularly” means, haven’t I? If it counts for anything, though, I have thought about finishing and posting this essay I started back in 2009 nearly every day.
Par ...
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An Update On ‘Tingling’ Tongue Problem While On A Low-Carb Diet
by
Jimmy M.
Posted
Mon 29 Mar 2010 1:57pm
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I receive quite a bit of e-mail from people on a daily basis who have all sorts of questions about livin’ la vida low-carb. And it quite literally runs the gamut from how do you start on a low-carb diet to why have I “only” lost 10 pounds after two weeks to some really serious health concerns that people are worried their low-carb diet is ...
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When Animals Mess with Our Minds
by
Myrna M.

Posted
Tue 22 Jul 2008 8:22pm
Do you ever get the feeling that your dog or cat is trying to drive you crazy? I’m not referring to the way you feel when your dog rolls in maggot-infested dead animal guts 5 minutes before your boss arrives, or when the cat pees on your $75 French bra just because it’s new. I’m referring to more subtle behavior of the things-that-go-bump-in-the- ...
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Short Fiction Winners Revealed
by
Dr. Rob Dobrenski

Posted
Wed 14 Dec 2011 2:53pm
Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s exercise and congratulations to the winner(s). You can read the stories by the selected winner, five runner-ups and ten honorable mentions below. Click here to listen to the podcast where we discuss and critique each piece but only after you’ve read all the stories, the show is full of spoil ...
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