health
when young to live well, when old to die well
By bluerasberry on 2008-03-04
On Monday February 18 I started my first full-time job at Free and Clear as a tobacco-cessation counselor. Their business is to make and take phone calls for people who contacted us about stopping smoking. They have an awesome business model because they do not have to advertise to the public, only to the government […]
Posted in health, work | Tagged counseling, insurance, smoking, tobacco
By bluerasberry on 2008-02-10
I visited Gay City on 500 E Pike last week. I was planning on going there anyway, but then I saw an ad on craigslist looking for Seattle bloggers to write about gay rights in other countries. I saw an opportunity to get publicity for S.B. but when I responded, the guy said it had […]
Posted in health, HIV, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged advertising, AIDS, data, logistics
By bluerasberry on 2007-09-10
I came back to Seattle on July 19 and I am still ill with stomach problems from India. In early August I went to the hospital on the advice of some clinic worker and had cultures done. They forwarded the test results to a clinic, and there I got a primary care doctor and through […]
Posted in health, HIV, India, Seattle | Tagged medicine, test
By bluerasberry on 2007-09-02
Pocket was the smartest hampster I ever had. He communicated with squeaks every day and was loud enough to be heard from other rooms in the house. He squeaked usually when he was angry, which was often, but he also squeaked when he was playing or when he wanted attention. Pocket would chirp from his […]
Posted in animal, encounter, health | Tagged death, hampster, medicine
By bluerasberry on 2007-07-10
I have been in England for more than a week now and I still have stomach problems. I have not gone to London simply because I do not want to spend time there thinking about toilets, plus there is something abnormal about my thought process right now. I find myself especially excited and excitable in […]
Posted in England, health | Tagged delerium, hospital
By bluerasberry on 2007-07-08
I arrived at Heathrow on the night of the second. As soon as I was in the airport I felt like I had come home. I was very sick. It was my plan to take the tube to the train and the train to Chia and Kieran’s place in Essex, so to prepare myself I […]
Posted in animal, art, England, health | Tagged comic, food, hospital, mouse, sickness, sport, theatre
By bluerasberry on 2007-07-01
I came left Benares the night of the 28th and arrived in Delhi Friday morning. It is too hot for touts this time of year. I walked all the way through the train station and no one spoke to me. Nandan told me that I could walk to Connaught Place from the station and I […]
Posted in animal, health, India, museum, religion | Tagged Baha'i, delerium, Delhi, dinosaur, food, map, police, sickness, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2007-04-19
I have had a nagging cough for about two weeks now. It was annoying before I left for the Punjab and it has gotten progressively worse. Today I was walking home from my lesson with M.N. and I actually got short of breath. It scared me so I went to the doctor again just now, […]
Posted in health, India | Tagged food, sickness
By bluerasberry on 2007-02-18
I feel bad today. My theory is that this is due to a short course of antibiotics. I took them for five days (five pills) starting January 24, two days (four pills) following February 5, and one day Tuesday January 13 (two pills). The latter two visits included flora treatment for six and ten days […]
Posted in festival, health, India | Tagged medicine, ritual, sickness
By bluerasberry on 2007-01-24
I woke up this morning with malaise. Last night I had talked with Abiji about going to a doctor because after one week I still have had diarrhea daily. In the last week I have not felt bad, although I have been tired. I attributed that to going to the toilet approximately twice every night […]
Posted in health, India | Tagged hospital, medicine, sickness