Posted in Journal on Jul 8th, 2006 No Comments »
This was pretty much a typical day except that we did our weekly cleaning since Aidan’s case manager from the regional center was to come here today. The meeting went fine, nothing really new except the possibility of another psychological evaluation in the fall. Right now they have him written down as […]
Posted in Health and Family Systems, Books on Jul 8th, 2006 2 Comments »
After diet and exercise, the book covers other areas of life that are more or less in a person’s control. Alcohol, drugs (OTC or prescribed), and cigarettes are discussed. I read quickly through this part because I don’t really use any of these on a regular basis, so I don’t think […]
Posted in Big Picture, Plans and Ideas on Jul 7th, 2006 5 Comments »
Can you be an unschooler and still plan?
A recurrent question of mine.
I realize that while my more structured homeschooling sometimes burned me out and didn’t leave a lot of room for organic learning, it still gave me something to work on, something that felt productive to me. At the end of the day I […]
Posted in Health and Family Systems, Books on Jul 7th, 2006 2 Comments »
The next section of the book Women and Fatigue is about isolating the reasons for the symptoms of fatigue. There are 15 short questionnaires asking about diet, exercise, job stress, physical aspects of job, quality of sleep, conflicts and stress in home life, mood, and various health-related habits like smoking, drinking, drug use.
After doing […]
Posted in Health and Family Systems, Plans and Ideas on Jul 6th, 2006 3 Comments »
I woke up early, planning for some reason.
I think one of the reasons for my tiredness MAY be lack of routine in the day. Just a theory — but I’ve noticed in the past that when I have no way of measuring my energy output or pacing out the workload, the drain accumulates […]
Posted in Health and Family Systems, Books on Jul 6th, 2006 No Comments »
This part of the book is about different layers in the whole system from which fatigue can originate. The author lists 5 levels: sub-cellular, cellular, organ systems, body, and person. For example, one woman she mentioned had a mild, incurable form of anemia caused by thalassemia. The origin of this is a genetic, sub-cellular defect. […]
Posted in Health and Family Systems, Books on Jul 5th, 2006 1 Comment »
Yesterday afternoon I had an attack of acute …. fatigue. I know that sounds a bit of an oxymoron, like the Monty Python killer rabbit. But it was real, and it scared me a bit because it was so extreme and it didn’t seem directly caused by anything. […]
Posted in Journal on Jul 3rd, 2006 2 Comments »
Monday is our traditional cleaning day since I take Sunday off from cleaning and it doesn’t take long for the place to get trashed. So today we worked most of the morning. I caught up on phone calls and found that Aidan’s recent bloodwork came through fine, hooray, that means he doesn’t […]
Posted in Nature, Living and learning on Jul 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
Kieron took this picture of a lizard:
and this picture too, at the request of his sister
–wow, looks like he’s been studying impressionist painters:
Here’s the photographer himself taking a break:
And here he’s hiding from the spray hose:
Posted in Journal on Jul 1st, 2006 2 Comments »
The past few days have been so busy I’ve hardly had time to sit down at the computer. My daughter’s dear friend has been visiting for the past few days and life has been full!
A short itinerary since otherwise I am bound to forget most of it:
Tuesday evening, we picked her up at […]
