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Some Goals for August
Here’s a list of things I’m working on and habits I’m trying to build this month: I’m trying to break the habit of just wasting time on my phone and do the things I dream of doing: art and music. I’m committed to doing 15 mins of music and sketching each day. I’ll do that…
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Treating the Smart Phone as a Landline
Yesterday I saw some success in fighting off the doomscrolling, distraction, and brainrot by treating my phone as a landline. When I was a kid we had one phone in the house. And it did only one thing. It rang, you talked then hung up. And what you did with the rest of your life,…
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The Ultimate Nostalgia
As someone just getting older, I often think about what was cool in the past. Or, what’s crappier now. There’s a lot of crappier things now and that’s really a drag. But there’s one thing in the past that I can actually still kinda sorta still have, but not really: a life before phones and…
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One Week Free of Omeprazole
Today is my one week anniversary of being off omeprazole. It’s what I’ve spent the vast majority of my time thinking about these last few weeks. How to get off this drug, how to prevent the symptoms from coming back, and biggest of all: is it connected to osteoporosis or not? Of course, I don’t…
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Love Yourself
I really enjoy coming across street art with a message. It reminds me of when I found “You can be anything on the playground”, written on a playground. What a great message. So fun. And little does the person who made it realize how often that pops into my head. It’s been years, and I…
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Quitting Omeprazole Day 17
Things are going pretty good. I’m on Day 17 of tapering down. Less of a taper and more like one step down then cold turkey. It’s Day 5 of being completely clean. I do experience heartburn a little bit sometimes, but I’m taking precautions very seriously. I never lay down in the day, not even…
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Almond and Soy Milk are Lowkey Tums
Recently I learned that Tums is calcium carbonate. One tablet is 1000mg. I was looking at the ingredients of soy milk and noticed one cup has 325mg of calcium carbonate. Three cups would equal one Tums, or one cup makes a lowkey Tums. Interesting. I had a memory of working in a Plant Pathology lab…
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I Am So Lucky
It’s been a while since I thought about The Luck Factor. And it’s not every day we score big wins. And in my case, before I read this book, I almost never turned my bad luck into good. I was recently diagnosed with osteoporosis. The first stroke of luck came when I saw a doc…
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Obsessing Over Osteoporosis
Getting an osteoporosis diagnosis has sent me over the edge and straight down the rabbit hole. I’ve doing the Acid Watcher Diet, which mostly the same as Dr Jamie Koufman’s Reflux Detox Diet. I’m on Day 5 and my mindset has already well shifted into what’s ok to eat and what is not. And I’ve…
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Pulling the Plug on Omeprazole
I’m two weeks in on 20mg omeprazole, down from 40mg. It’s pretty rough right now with coughing and irritation. And I’m considering quitting from here rather than transitioning every other day or so. Mainly because I just discovered Dr Jamie Koufman’s blog and searched it for rebound hyperacidity. It seems like her and Dr Jonathan…