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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:16:27 -0500

We went to the hospital and Ivy had her IVIG. In the light of day and with a few phone calls they miraculously found that Ivy’s name was on the list for admission. We had “slipped through the cracks” because they assumed Ivy had bee

Hospital hoopla.

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:56:09 -0500

Today Ivy is supposed to go in for her second infusion of IVIG. It’s day 31 and it’s already been put off once because Friday is not a good day for anyone, apparently. Not alot gets done on a Friday. Young doctors and nurses minds are fil

The end of the world

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:37:27 -0500

I saw 4 clients last week who reported with anxiety symptoms due to reading/watching/hallucinating the news about the credit crunch. Remember, Headmind - like the newspapers, makes money out of bad news. You don't have to go there if you...

Stress & The Yellow Canary In The Hat

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:30:00 -0500

The other day I was sitting at my laptop, writing a for the blog, when I was rudely interrupted by a chirping noise - coming from my ceiling.That's never good. I went to investigate and found nothing. However I did discover the culprit of a very obno

Should We Be Worried?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:38:07 -0500

The Dow has the worst weekly drop ever. Talks of recession are no longer the big debate as they are replaced with questions about a second depression. We don’t have to watch the news very long to hear about fear, panic, and uncertainty. A lot o

Sneaky students steal free meals (The Optimist)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:17:03 -0500

Some students no longer worry about rationing their weekly meal plans; instead, they sneak into the "World Famous Bean" for free. Mary Bowman, supervisor of the Bean, said this has been a problem since 1997, and she has seen it more this year because

Absence Makes the Heart Fall Madly in Love

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:06:05 -0500

I missed the hell out of you. I really did. -Dr. Cox, Scrubs So last weekend was the big weekend away in Tahoe for work. It was hard leaving Match, but I was excited for a change of scenery. After an unbelievably long drive, I ended up at the hotel,

Ghost Busters

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:38:00 -0500

Let me preface this post by sharing a neat fact about me.(Ok not so much neat as a total pain. But anyways.)I am afraid of everything. Like EVERYTHING. Not in a paranoid/might possibly need medication sort of way - but more in a worry-some/worst case

Should I Just Take Some Deep Breaths and Not Worry Today?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:24:00 -0500

8 Ball : My Reply Is No

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, You Will Be Less Stressed After All!

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:56:00 -0500

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Dr's appointments, specialists, waiting, stressing, here we go again..

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:23:00 -0500

So.Millie has had two seizures in the last couple of months. The last one, last week, she fell off her chair face first onto the ground.That was pretty scary, she bit a chunk out of her tongue poor mite.Both were while she was sick but that brings th

A little heart to heart.

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:36:45 -0500

Ivy has to have an Echo of her heart. The paed is a little concerned that her heart rate is always high and he can hear a murmur. Not all the time but sometimes. The thought of Ivy having the echo, the thought of her having a problem with her heart m

How to Not Worry about the Economy: Focus on What you Can Influence

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:14:15 -0500

The stocks are plummeting. People are starting to shove their hard earned cash underneath their beds. It’s 1929 all over again! Image by Cishore I don’t know much about the stock market, and despite my feelings about the finance world,

Worrying - Control it

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:02:32 -0500

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. -Mahatma Gandhi Many of us worry about things that are out of our control yet sometimes we are consumed

Are You Afraid of Success?

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:30:00 -0500

We won’t name names. However, we’ve all seen it – usually with a celebrity – a person who is on the verge of bigg success, but then they go through a meltdown. ___ ___ We wonder what could have caused it. Usually, it’s

Two Step Strategy for Going from Worry to Confidence

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:20:00 -0500

If you are making any kind of progress in your life, you are going to experience setbacks, problems, difficulties, and challenges. How you handle these crises is the critical difference between moving forward, or getting stuck, and even falling back

It's all in how you look at it

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:50:00 -0500

Good morning! I hope you had a great weekend. This week all eyes will be on the American economy, in particular the financial markets. Over the past several weeks the Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen nearly 2,000 points. For many this has led

Rest

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0500

My beloved daughter,My beloved daughter, I watched as you went about your day today. I saw all the things you needed to do and your frustration as you tried to do it all. I saw the worry, the guilt, the anxiety and the fear – the things you try to

What are Your Peace Stealers?

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:14:39 -0500

Are there things in your life that are hindering you from living the peaceful life God provides for you? Peace doesn’t just happen, we have to go after it. Really, we have to fight for it. There are ways, however, that we can be proactive in

The Secret Calm - Part II

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:28:13 -0500

Someone commented yesterday how wonderful it would be to be able to calm the mind, to be completely free of thought or worry. Lest anyone think that that is the case with me, let me assure you it is not! I don’t think it is true of anyone. If the e