Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Life is in flux BIG TIME these days. I want to keep in touch with all of my peeps. The Internet is this beautiful thing. I can move to a brand new city and still stay in easy, near-daily contact with the people I love. When I feel connected to the people in my life that matter, I am unstoppable!

Neti Pots and Waterboarding

By Abby at 9:45 am on Sunday, May 31, 2009

I always thought the reason I hated the Neti Pot so much related to a simple fact: I am a total wuss. I always say that it feels like waterboarding.

Watching this video, I think it’s more complicated. I have a deviated septum. I noticed that my nostrils were very different in size during college, but I never thought much of it. I think it was when Jennifer Aniston got surgery for a deviated septum a few years ago that I wondered if I should care. The rumor was that she’d had a “nosejob,” but her nose didn’t look any different afterwards. She’d cited a deviated septum as the reason for the surgery. Anyway, about a year ago, I tried the Neti Pot, since everyone seemed to think it was the best thing ever. When I’ve tried it, it’s been torture because I’ll pour all the saline water into one nostril, but it doesn’t come out the other side. I am standing there leaning over the sink, my eyes are turning redder and redder, my sinuses are burning, and all this liquid is trapped in my head. I stand there as long as I can stand it. I might get a drip or two out the other nostril, but no lovely stream of saline like in the video. I’m thinking maybe I should look into this deviated septum situation. I was just reading the Wikipedia article about it, and it says that it’s often a result of birth trauma – of which I had a TONS. I have a foot lodge into my face when I was born. I think this explains a lot. Only took 39 years to work it all out.

I think I’m out on the Neti Pot until I talk to a real doctor about my deviated septum and about my allergies, which seem to get worse every year.

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Shingled

By Abby at 9:46 am on Thursday, May 28, 2009

Just a life update. I’ve been in professional practice with someone else. Last Tuesday, we decided to part ways, and I think it’s going to be a really great move for me. On Wednesday, I found a new office downtown. It’s an office with two professionals (not psychologists) who have been in the building for five years. One of them is a friend of mine. The office and the people are just lovely. I’ve spent this week furnishing the new office, setting up a merchant account, telling all my clients about the move, and generally organizing things. Next week is my first week with my very own shingle.

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NYC Trip in Audio Clips

By Abby at 1:07 pm on Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Some sound clips from Jake and my trip to New York:

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Shiny Round Thing with Two

Shiny Thing with Two
Shiny Round Thing with Three

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Mom’s a Bad Mama Jama!

By Abby at 1:21 pm on Sunday, May 10, 2009

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Oh hai, little tree frog!

By Abby at 12:20 am on Friday, May 8, 2009

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