A Natural Scientist

A set of breathless articles have recently been circulating about how women die from complications of childbirth up to a year after givi...

So I've been having these terrible migraines twice a month for a year (every 28 days like clockwork; thanks for nothing, hormones!). I...

Today, my friends, I have collapsed into bed, where I am playing "Influenza Or Side Effects?" This would be a great exercise in an...

... that the reason this year's influenza vaccine is not very effective is this : "The egg-adapted version of this viral strain l...

Ear status: better than it was, but not great.  I don't want to die any more!  But I could really go for some nice narcotics.  (Yes, I h...

Here . And a sincere FUCK YOU VERY MUCH to all (edit: that is, the subset of) the white dudes and straight white Christian ladies who are co...

Hey Brain, Look, I know we've had a rough last.... well, about 50 days.  And I know that yes, historically speaking it has been Not Aw...

Lizard Brain: "AAAAAAAH SUDAFED NOW PANIC AND FREAK OUT" Ego: "Shh, it's okay, it's just physiology." Lizard B...

Sick.  Since... June 13.  Two rounds of steroids, three kinds of antihistamines at once, and ten days of antibiotics.  It hurts to eat.  Ton...

Well! I have recently been to visit the nice doctor for, I thought, a refill of the boring asthma inhalers.  (Though not - I specified - the...

... in all the senses. My yard is still weedy.  The flowers are growing and are very pretty My job is still in limbo because Outgoing C...

Urgent Care Doctor: "Would you also like a steroid taper?" Me: "I'm pretty sure taking four immune suppressants at once...

Since I live in a small town, I rarely have to travel more than five miles to get anywhere.  (The houses of some rural friends excepted, and...

Things I have, unwisely, read in the past week: OMIM : Look at all the distressing things genetic material does!  Biased heavily towards t...

Otherwise Excellent Doctor to me: 'Maybe an ultrasound would be helpful.' Me: 'Okay, but how would that information change a...

Someone I knew in Cold City is 'crowd funding' her parent's funeral. To the tune of $15,000. Look, I know funerals are stupid ...

HEADACHE: Mostly gone.  Hearing probably also 5% reduced, but I'll take that over a perpetual knife in the ear.  Let's say a 2. F@...

Last week, a friend asked me what I thought of herbal remedies. (She probably regretted it almost instantly.) While others have done an ex...

A friend asked me this week if it really matters if other people delay vaccinating their children.  As long as their child has received at l...

I'm going to have to confine my remarks to things NOT having to do with my multitudinous feelings. Item: I continue to loathe all pers...