Planning The Unpredictable

I am a bit of a childbirth nerd. I have been trained to be a doula and attended three births. I don’t know if I will ever have kids so my family reading this shouldn’t get the wrong idea or anything.
I decided to do some research on breastfeeding with Copaxone. [...]

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The nominations have been updated and Brass and Ivory has made finals! Yay Lisa!

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Well, it wasn’t a new love but… he stuck around after my MS diagnosis. This Christmas he gave me this:

I guess that means he will be sticking around for a lot longer.

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in my old age. I have spent some time on Multiple Sclerosis message boards and I find the support of *everyone* for *everything* to be retarded. I am all for support when deserved but blinding supporting anyone for anything seems like the opposite of support. It seems very insincere. The whole [...]

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We have until the 31st to nominate patient blog for the 2008 Medical Weblog Awards. I am going to nominate Brass and Ivory for best patient blog and I suggest others do also! We should get some of the spotlight.
You can nominate Brass and Ivory by adding a comment to [...]

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The shared solutions nurse came for a visit and she was much more helpful than the first person. I did my shot manually instead of with auto-inject. I think I will like doing it this way better but it will take some time to get use to it. Anyway, she had a [...]

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I just upgraded so if you happen to notice anything odd about my website, please let me know. I know my mother said she couldn’t get to the main site and I hope this upgrade resolved that.

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Well, I went to the doc on Friday for a redo on injection training. I arrived bright and early at 8am. The front desk at the University of Washington MS clinic is disorganized. I know the doctor said he wanted a nurse visit but he also wanted to be there during the [...]

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There have been a few articles over the last couple weeks on how people are using the internet in relation to health issues. Microsoft published a research study. The results are interesting:
Our results show that Web search engines have the potential to escalate medical concerns. We show that escalation is influenced by the [...]

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I think the winter time depression has hit. I haven’t had much motivation to do anything. I am still going to the gym 6 times a week but everything else is kind of blah. The last two years, Tom and I have spent a week in Hawaii. We were going to [...]

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