Copilot image I picked up one of my prescriptions the other day and found that, for the fourth month in a row, it's a generic from a dif...

This morning while I was showering with my unscented shampoo and unscented conditioner, using my fragrance-free soap and then drying off wit...

Monday, I went out to the grocery store and the drug store. I was the only person I saw wearing a mask. Right now respiratory diseases are h...

Ah, so much going in the world. Fires in California. Bombings in Gaza, Ukraine, Russia, who knows where else. People hurting all over. Cold,...

I wrote on December 29 that we were both sick. I got better. My husband stayed sick. Now he is getting better, a little, and I am sick. Agai...

Now we both are sick. I was on an antibiotic before Christmas, having developed a raging ear infection that required an intervention. By the...

On Saturday, I woke up with vertigo. It eased up after I sat up. I have had worse. I had been having pain in my left ear and assumed an ear ...

Yesterday, I went with my husband to the orthopedic center in the city. He is having trouble with his knee, with fluid on the kneecap that i...

Today I went back to the dentist, having been there on Monday, so she could do her thing to create a crown for a front tooth. I initially ba...

Image by Copilot/Bing This weekend I learned that other people do not continue to see images behind their eyelids when they close their eyes...

At some point around the first of this week, the last of the rasp that I'd been living with as an excuse for a larynx for well over a mo...

I had words with my pharmacist today. I had called in my prescriptions on Sunday, all of them due for refill within 7 days. I noted on the p...

In December, I had my annual check-in with my gastroenterologist. A year ago, she had asked me about a colonoscopy, and since I was only 59 ...

I have not been out of my house since January 10, yet somehow, I have ended up with a sore throat. It appears to be some kind of mild virus....

Yesterday, which was Tuesday, I saw my chiropractor to see if she could help me with my painful jaw. (See Monday's post here .) I did fe...

When someone looks at me, they see an overweight person who otherwise looks healthy. However, I have a lot of things wrong with me. I don...

Today I saw the chiropractor. I had a bit of a reaction to the adjustment (or maybe to my blood pressure medicine) - when I sat up, I had sp...

Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person seeks to make another person doubt their own perceptions, memories, or...