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health
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Dick, health, marriage
The Triennial Colonoscopy PSA (a love story)
09.09.11 | Permalink | 6 CommentsMy soul mate turned 36 last week, so that must mean it’s time for another colonoscopy! Happy birthday, honey! I signed up Tom for his first colonoscopy at 33 because his maternal grandfather died at age 43 from colon cancer. They found a polyp that was pre-cancerous but advanced enough to warrant a repeat in [...]
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health
It is a damn good thing I don’t know any drug dealers
02.02.11 | Permalink | 7 CommentsI had to have a tooth extracted by the oral surgeon this morning. Tom would like to blame my fractured dental health on my Mountain Dew consumption, but I’m equally sure that pregnancy is the culprit, along with some subpar genetics. I don’t know if anything will make you feel more like a redneck who [...]
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Being Mormon, health, labor & delivery
Prenatal Palliative Care
04.05.10 | Permalink | 11 CommentsEaster weekend was great. I thought Conference had a whole lotta talks about parenting and motherhood, and let me tell you, it is easy to feel that you are doing your duty as a mother when you are pregnant. That duty is burning up my esophagus as we speak, so “motherhood” = check. Before the [...]
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health
The Trouble with Mountain Dew
10.25.09 | Permalink | 13 CommentsIt has been two months since I went off the sauce. It was pretty easy, this time. I was taking strong painkillers for the miscarriage, anyway, so it seemed a propitious time. (Also the number on the scale at the doctor’s was sufficiently humbling.) But now, two months later, I crave Dew’s lemon meringue-y chemical [...]
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health, recipes
In Lieu of Flowers
10.19.09 | Permalink | 8 CommentsWe drove Mr. Bennet (I’ll call him something respectful just in case anything happens) to the airport this morning for his celebrity appearance in Texas. (“Celebrity appearance” is technical writer humor for “waste two vacations days and pay half your hotel fee for the dubious honor of speaking to your fellow technical writers.”) On the [...]
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health
Hey, I’ve got a bum shoulder, too!
09.14.09 | Permalink | 12 CommentsWhen Spot was several weeks old, we went to the beach for our Sunday evening walk, as we did most months of the year in Florida. As I held her squirmy little body to my chest and wrestled with the baby bjorn fastenings, my shoulder dislocated. Because I am a mother, I called Mr. Bennet [...]
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blogging, giveaway, health
Mr. Bennet is duly impressed, but wishes I would stop farting in bed
07.31.09 | Permalink | 46 Comments(Pre.S. 1 There’s a Thanksgiving Point giveaway at the end, so skip to that if you get bored.) (Pre.S. 2 Mr. Bennet needs to come to terms with the fact that even celebrity mommy bloggers fart.) Yesterday I took Sally and Susan to a mommy-blogger PR tour at Thanksgiving Point, and the full disclosure is [...]
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