I am stay-at-home moms who, in the past nine years have been diagnosed with a potpourri of disorders and illnesses. It has taken until the past four years to get most of my diagnoses. After going t...
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Her Option ~ Cryoablation Update
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Mandy ..
Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine
Monday morning, I had the Cryoablation done in my doctors office. Sunday night the anesthesiologist had called me to go over my crazy medication allergies and let me know what would be going on. I can’t tell you really how it went because I was completely out. Not out like surgery but more asleep. I remember them putting me under and a lit...
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The A Behind Anxiety ~ This Is Quite A Long Post
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Mandy ..
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I have been absent from my blog for a while, I have been sick and I have been sick and tired. Which has really stressed me out and made my anxiety much worse. It all started with what I first thought was just a cold, I didn’t go to the doctor because the first week I was not running any fever I just felt really bad. Then came the second we...
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Feeling Like Menopause In Your 30's and 40's
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Mandy ..
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Recently, I went to our family doctor and asked again "why do I feel like I am going through menopause?" Even though, my lab work shows that I am not? I have menopause symptoms and constant periods without the wacky hormones. She told me about a procedure called Her Option Office Cryoablation Therapy, and is a CryoEndometrialAblation ( CEA ) an...
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Some of my favorite eBay sellers
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Mandy ..
Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine
In my spare time, I buy and sell on eBay. Here is a list of some of my favorite eBayer's: Manse de Weese:This eBay store mainly has books, all sorts of books. This sellers prices are very good, excellent communication and the shipping is very reasonable along with being very fast.We just purchased a copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank...
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Phone Bill Cramming
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Mandy ..
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Recently, I looked at my phone bill...I found two charges for "voice mail" services from two separate companies (third party charges). I called my phone company and they are reversing the charges but, told me that I still had to contact the companies to cancel the services (the ones that I never ordered or approved in the first place!). Well, I ...
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Autism Reading Program
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Mandy ..
Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine
We have a son with Autism; he was in school here in Texas for 5 years. He is high functioning and is verbal. Yet, the school's (he attended 9 schools here) here in Texas could not do anything with him. When he was 10 years old we sent him to live with family in New Mexico. At the time my husband had found out about a program in New Mexico for ch...
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A great idea that I received from one of my eBay friends
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Mandy ..
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When you are making out your Christmas card list this year, please include the following:A Recovering American Soldierc/o WalterReedArmyMedicalCenter6900 Georgia Avenue, NWWashington, D.C. 20307-5001If you approve of the idea, please pass it on to your friends. Before you send your Christmas cards, read this soldiers blog first.
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Great way to promote your blog
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Mandy ..
Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine
Recently, I another blogspot blogger sent me information on Entrecard. I checked into it and now I am hooked! My traffic has increased dramatically. It is a great way to find other blogs, I have found things that I never knew about.The way it works is, if you have a blog, you sign up on Entrecard then create you own Entrecard logo widget, the si...
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Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
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Mandy ..
Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine
This is just one of my many problems... I am beginning to think that I have always had Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome ( POS Stein- Leventhal Syndrome or Polycystic Ovary Disease ( PCOD ) , but that it did not get completely out of control until I had my last child (he is now 9). Shortly after he was born, I started having menopausal symptoms. Befor...
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Locks Of Love
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Mandy ..
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Recently, I received an email on donating your hair to Locks of Love. This is a wonderful giving program. Here is some information about the program taken from Locks of Love. WHAT IS LOCKS OF LOVE?Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged ...
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New Fibromyalgia Blog
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Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine
While surfing around I found a wonderful Fibromyalgia blog called Fibrantliving. It has lots good information and links. Once I read more I will post more about this blog. Click on the picture to go to Fibrantliving blog.Please, post comments and interesting thing you find here
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A news article I found on CFS and FM and other vitamin info
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Mandy ..
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This morning while looking for news articles on CFS and FM, I ran across an article on the use of magnesium for muscle spasms. I have been taking magnesium since I had my thyroid removed due to cancer. The magnesium has nothing to do with the thyroid or lack of but, when my thyroid was removed my parathyroid completely quit working. This only ha...
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New interesting tool that I found on Fibrant Living
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Mandy ..
Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine
This morning while I was checking back on my recently added Fibro link Fibrant Living, I noticed the newest post. The post was about Curehunter.com, and had this enbed on it. It is a visual medical dictionary! You can also, search medications. Being a very visual person, I just love this. I hope that you will find this helpful too.Go to Curehunt...
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Off Topic
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Mandy ..
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This is off topic but, I thought that it was worth sharing. A friend of my recently emailed this to me. Should children witness childbirth? Due to a power outage, only one paramedic responded to the call. The house was very dark so the paramedic asked Kathleen, a 3-yr old girl to hold a flashlight high over her mommy so he could see while he hel...
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Food For Thought
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Recently, on Larry King Live, Larry did an interview with a death row inmate named Damien Echols. Fifteen years ago, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley were convicted of the murder of three Arkansas boys. At the time of their arrest Damien was 18, Jason was 16 and Jessie was 18. They were not convicted on any physical evidence ba...
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Kicking The Smoking Habit
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As I posted earlier in the week ( New Year’s Resolution ), I found a great new stop smoking blog. Quit Smoking Together with Kelly. I have tried to quit before with out much luck but, I decided to give this a try. Kelly and I exchanged several emails and she asked me to co-author this new blog with her. I posted my first post there last night Ma...
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Answer To A Question About My "MIT Reverses Autism In Mice" Post
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Here is the question, “Is it possible to be slightly autistic? I always thought autism is a severe problem, nothing mild about it.”To answer your question, yes and no…you either have autism or you don’t but, it depends where on the “spectrum” you fall. There are several Autism Spectrum disorders, the definitions’ were taken from the Autis...
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