Blogula Rasa

All this incessant blogging about politics, spiritual and secular, is just camouflage: I don’t really have anything that I can blog about that’s all that interesting, aside from several very personal family topics.
Well, rather than maintain complete radio silence (and rely too much on sources other than myself) I’ll try to tactfully refer to some [...]

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I faithfully took all my prescription meds yesterday, got a fairly good night’s sleep last night (got up early, but went back to bed after David left for work) and stayed home one more day today to get the last of the cold/cough dealt with; I felt pretty bad yesterday afternoon and was really stuffed [...]

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One of the blessings of a “mixed” family heritage is that you get to eat comfort foods from more than one buffet line. Case in point: yesterday’s family confab and lunch nosh, which was held at Max’s Delicatessen in Skokie.
I knew going in that on a bitterly cold day, fighting a “bug” and trying not [...]

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Doctor visits go online — chicagotribune.com
By the time San Francisco consultant Meg Young got to Boston on a chilly night last winter, she was running a 102-degree fever. She considered going to the emergency room. Instead, she went online in her hotel room.The 40-year-old technology expert booked a visit with her primary-care doctor at [...]

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I’m still battling the cold and cough, hoping to avoid a 5-month bout of bronchitis like last year… when it finally went away after I started taking anti-acid reflux drugs in addition to some prescription and over-the-counter medications for general cough and asthma. There’s some kind of connection.
In about half an hour, we leave to [...]

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