Thursday, May 31, 2007

I've been thinking about random things

Like I finally bought a Tilia Foodsaver because I'm a gadget queen.
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Like I love that our credit cards and some of our lines of credit are finally paid off, and we are feeling like we can breathe, but I've spent so much time afraid to spend money that I'm reluctant to enjoy it. I mean, who buys themselves a kitchen appliance as a special treat? I used to dream of spas...
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Like I feel silly for wondering if people I know IRL are reading my blog, yet I'm also wondering why they have intruded on my own private version of AA. I've said this on other blogs before, but AA meetings are public, as are most support group meetings, yet no one would dare spy or reveal the identity of the people attending. Even the tabloid press has drawn the line on that. Yet somehow this comes up over and over again in the blogosphere. Sometimes with strangers going after us, and other times with our family or workplaces intruding, as if we women are their possessions, not allowed to have thoughts or identities or friends of our own that are not mutually shared. Odd....
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I bought a whole bunch of fish oil caps, and melatonin pills and other natural things yesterday and today. I've also switched to those chocolate calcium chews because they taste less hideous than Tums, but I'm still trying to find other brands? Any ideas? Suggestions? I think I am becoming crunchier....
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I saw this in the NY Times most-emailed section and I decided that I MUST own it. And a Blackberry. Did mention I like gadgets?
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Facebook = boring. I don't quite the get the point other than to compete as to who has more "friends". I "friend" people, but then I just sort of stand there thinking, hey...is this it? Plus really, I don't want to talk to most of the people I knew in high school and university. If I did, I'd call them, and I haven't soooo, anyone taking a hint here?
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This conversation about progesterone over at Mel's got me thinking about how we take drugs and how they absorb into our bodies. In me, provera oral is fine for when I need to bring on a period, but is also excellent for shrinking cysts and suppressing my high FSH. I have no idea why it works for that but not so good at keeping up my LP.

Progesterone suppositories worked when I was pregnant with Mac, but in every other pregnancy after that big-headed child was born, they slid out, utterly useless. I had to prop my hips up on pillows after inserting them, every gd time. I tried using prometrium orally and discovered it did nothing for my blood levels or luteal phase support, but it was an AMAZING sleeping pill. I later heard from two different sleep specialists that it is being used for post-menopausal women as part of their HRT to deal with insomnia and disturbed sleep.

The same Prometrium gelcaps vaginally however absorbed wonderfully, and because the gelcap melts, and is rather sticky...they stay up, not badly, I've had good blood levels, and no cramps, no bleeding, as long as I took enough of it. I haven't used Crinone, or PIO, because I haven't needed them, but I think I would if I had too. So yes, Mel, the same exact pill is used both vaginally and orally but for different reasons. I'm told many medications can be used different ways, and some are used as creams or patches because they want to avoid the digestive tract, and the liver, but also because they can work better.

Now, I have NO idea if all other pills will work this way. Some tablets might, but obviously a time release wouldn't. Haha, time release vaginas....
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Last random thing, I spoke to my RE's assistant and I'm seeing him in a couple of weeks to readjust my HRT, after finding out the bone density in my hip is waaaaaay down. As in, I really have to take care here. (He has a fertility clinic, but also takes care of other patients for hormone/gyne issues.) So I'm going to chat about all sorts of fertility/thyroid issues when I'm there.
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Off to read blogs, my dears.

12 comments:

  1. Hey, I love kitchen appliances! I dream of an immersion blender. Actually, I dream of living in one place long enough to want a mostly-useless appliance. Seriously, what do you want to get yourself?!?

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  2. I buy kitchen stuff as a reward, as a pick me up, as a whatever I can use to justify my purchase. I kind of have a kitchen stuff addiction.

    You should see the cake pan I bought this week!

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  3. I had to click on it to see if it was anything I could get the gadget man across the room from me. He is so gadget. I am so not gadget. Unless cooking things count. They do...don't they.

    That's an interesting thing about the progesterone taken in different ways means different outcomes/reasons.

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  4. Humm...gadgets... My passion is cake pans. Different sizes, styles... Love them!

    Good luck with your conversations on the TTC front and general health... Amazing what we have to keep a track of.

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  5. Those food savers are great - just don't try and package hot dog buns in them! I don't know what I was thinking and I watched in horrified fascination as they flattened to nothingness.

    I also don't understand the FaceBook/MySpace thing - and I've asked people who use MySpace. Peculiar.

    And another blog recently extolled a chocolate calcium called Adora: http://antiquemommy.typepad.com/antique_mommy/2007/05/i_adore_adora.html

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  6. I would say I am a bit of a sucker for cleaning/housekeeping gadgets, but not so much the technical sort. I am very wary of anything that is going to result in more clutter in my life, which in my experience, most gadgets do.

    I do have to be sure to change the channel when infomercials come on though, because I am so easily convinced of how "great" something is!

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  7. I love all the technical gadgets (yes, I'm a complete geek!) Not so much into the kitchen gadgets...but that food saver is pretty darn cool. Then again, I would rather have a laminator!

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  8. HI,
    I'm with you on the facebook thing.

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  9. Aurelia....you have me cracking up over here with "time release vaginas" - lol....what next? And BTW, I think you deserve a trip to the spa - make that two trips! :)

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  10. Hi! I found your blog today, quite randomly, and found myself reading through your archives. You have been through such a lot. You write really well, so well that I felt emotionally wrenched from reading some of your posts.

    Since I also have a blogspot blog, I guess I'll use that ID, but don't bother clicking, it's very boring and not updated very often. I'm a fellow adult-ADD sufferer and blog addict.

    I'm very glad I found your blog, and I'm interested to hear more about ADD meds. I've never taken any, although I was once prescribed Adderall - I was too scared to take it - what if it didn't work? Now, as a mom, I really feel I need them, but I'm still breastfeeding, and after that is over I'm sure I'll have another excuse for not taking drugs. I guess I just hate taking drugs. But I also hate ADD.

    Sorry to ramble (comes with the territory I guess)...

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  11. I am a big fan of kitchen gadgets, but not the little ones, big stuff. I love my mixer, my food processor and especially our vacuum food saver. Good times for sure. Hmmm, maybe that's why I never have any money.

    Got a good chuckle over time release vaginas. Hehehe.

    Glad you are seeing your RE for multi-purpose problems. I like that idea a lot. So sorry I have been so absent lately, I haven't felt very verbal these days, well unless I am complaining. I always seem to have words for complaining and whining.

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  12. Have you seen this one?

    http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

    Time release, hah

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