tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54309502009-07-08T13:38:06.470-04:0015 years ago I was diagnosed with Autoimmune Hepatitis...my mother survived colon cancer four years ago. My initial intent was to write about those experiences...now it is just a bunch of ramblings...with serious stuff thrown in.Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.comBlogger263125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-9432152431884615432008-07-15T11:43:00.006-04:002008-07-15T12:11:41.512-04:00

I haven't posted since my birthday. Hmm....here is an update....Went to the Young at Heart Chorus with Cyn and Steph for my birthday. Hung out with Mary T. at the Summers Day Revels. Bought some new furniture for the apartment I'm moving to in August. Saw the Somerville fireworks. Did some shopping with mom in Kittery, ME. Had dinner with Joanie and went to Mycroft's art opening. Took a

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-83880319123368732632008-06-18T16:06:00.001-04:002008-06-18T16:07:59.789-04:00

I turned 35 today. Think I'll run for President in the fall!

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-81507620498326898472008-06-09T21:20:00.007-04:002008-06-10T08:42:05.400-04:00

So I bought myself a 35th birthday present today....a MacBook. I hear once you go Mac you don't go back. We'll see how this goes. I'm making the switch from Microsoft to Mac and I'm a little scared. I got a pretty good deal though. I got the MacBook, a touch screen ipod, a printer, Office for Mac, .Mac, and the Apple Care Protection Plan all for around $1700 (after rebate). Pretty good huh?

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-52939229337477340892008-06-08T17:44:00.002-04:002008-06-08T17:54:00.870-04:00

Wow....what a weekend. It has been 90 degrees both days this weekend in Boston. Went to Ogunquit Beach in Maine yesterday. It was a lot less warm there than here. Got a wicked sunburn. Didn't even notice until I got home because it was so cold on the beach in Maine. Had a great dinner at the Front Porch with B and Lyne. Went to see For the Bible Tells Me So with Megan today. I enjoyed the

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-44284002168630447232008-06-01T16:28:00.002-04:002008-06-01T16:35:25.206-04:00

We just got back from the farm. We decided to not continue with the meat share after all because 10 pounds a month is too much for us during the summer. So.......we got our last meat share today. We got chicken legs, chicken breasts, lamb shoulder chops, ground beef patties, ground beef, beef chuck shoulder london broil, sweet italian sausages, beef round eye steak, and lamb for kabobs. I'm

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-81757143553672667242008-05-31T14:46:00.006-04:002008-05-31T15:18:29.293-04:00

I spent the afternoon hanging out with my grandfather in South Boston. Pa is getting older and this is the first time he has lived on his own for years. Hanging out with him is always fun! Today he told me about how his uncle made over a million dollars bootlegging and about how he used to roller skate to the art museum with his sister as a kid and even confessed to being scared when he found

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-72544544538096657232008-05-27T21:05:00.006-04:002008-05-27T21:18:02.099-04:00

B and I were driving back to Boston today via Wellfleet and noticed someone riding a horse on the side of the road. We were initially take aback because we didn't expect to see someone riding a horse. Then we both realized at the same time that the rider was Barbara Austin. Barbara Austin was the Wellfleet OysterFest Shuck Off winner in both 2006 and 2007. We were pretty psyched because we

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-45175072984432997752008-05-27T19:46:00.007-04:002008-05-27T21:42:17.779-04:00

We just got back from Provincetown. We went to celebrate our 7th anniversary and have gone every year (except for the year my mother was sick) since 2001. What a weekend! We managed to avoid the gaggles of drunk college girls and enjoyed our time there. We stayed at the always lovely Oxford Guest House. We love the Oxford and Trevor and Stephen are great! Happy birthday to Stephen.....I

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-25341342392748597402008-05-13T11:11:00.003-04:002008-05-13T11:14:02.560-04:00

Congratulations to Patrice and Frank for the birth of their second child! Little Genevieve Marie was born last Friday. She is a super cute little one!

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I had a great day with Mom today. We ate lots of yummy brunch items at Amrheins. Then we scooted over to the Adams National Historic Site. We went to the birthplace of both John and John Quincy Adams and took a tour of the Old House. The coolest thing was the stone library.....which houses a large percentage (the other 3700 volumes are kept at the Boston Public Library) of John Adams' book

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-58945440606342918762008-05-10T16:22:00.004-04:002008-05-10T16:31:05.047-04:00

A strange thing happened to me today. I went to Harvard Square after my CTA NextGen faith sharing group to get Mother's Day cards for my mother and Nora. I picked up a card for Nora that said the following...."Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give". I realized as I was paying that this was a quote from Pope John XXIII. How coincidental is that? I was coming from a CTA

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-79152099817585142182008-05-04T16:59:00.004-04:002008-05-04T17:33:09.556-04:00

B just got back from the farm with our meat CSA. Today we got a ham steak, two t-bone steaks, two chicken breasts, beef patties, hot dogs, hamburger, and lamb sausages. I hear they brought a three month old pig to the pick up today too. AND....we got some eggs too. Now I wish I went along. Which reminds me....we need to let the farmers know that we want to continue on past June.I'm getting

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-36274924670814512592008-05-04T13:55:00.004-04:002008-05-04T16:08:28.646-04:00

Speaking of Faith had a great story this week on contemporary Catholic identity and experience. I love Speaking of Faith and was happy to know they were doing a story on something that is so dear to me. One of the program participants was Rachel Pokora, President of the Nebraska chapter of Call to Action (CTA). I was excited to hear Rachel's story because in many ways it was like my voice being

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-68681395021346511262008-05-02T16:30:00.002-04:002008-05-02T16:37:36.907-04:00

Partners in Health is going to be featured on 60 Minutes this Sunday at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. If you don't know about PIH...then you should. This is definately worth checking out. The work PIH has done in Haiti is amazing! Plus Paul Farmer was my doctor when I was a patient at the Brigham and Womens back in 1993. He sort of saved my life...........

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-39134932887321355752008-04-27T11:21:00.005-04:002008-04-27T11:35:33.309-04:00

Got a call from the doc the other day. All my liver function tests are normal. Yee haw! Mom is trying to keep track of what makes her feel yucky in her food diary. So far it seems beef and Kashi are on the foods to avoid list. The Red Sox and the Celtics lost.....boo...hoo.......I've recently started twittering. Trying to decide if it is for me or not. Everyone keeps asking me to join

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-66306099288562122252008-04-21T14:55:00.002-04:002008-04-21T15:01:23.343-04:00

This is a shout out to Kate Blumberg and everyone else who ran the Boston Marathon to raise money for liver research today. Kate's time was 3:54:56. Congratulations Kate! You can still support Kate's run here. Go liver!

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-10791911551466192492008-04-11T20:21:00.002-04:002008-04-11T20:43:41.575-04:00

Hey.....I haven't posted in an age. Lots has gone on since December. I continue to only take 75 mg of imuran a day. My bloodwork has been normal every month. Seeing the doc in June. Lets hope he will drop me to 50 mg a day. My mom was in the hospital last week. She was admitted on Tuesday and released on Sunday. They are still unsure what the cause of her pain was. Could be the beginnings

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-37541453561770536632007-12-14T15:41:00.000-05:002007-12-14T15:47:57.587-05:00

They dropped my imuran to 75 mg a month ago. I had bloodwork on Tuesday to see how I was doing. I'm very happy to announce that all was normal! Yee haw! Lets hope things continue on in this direction.In other liver news.....a friend of mine was recently diagnosed with hepatitis C. What is interesting is that she has no idea how she got it. She started on a six month treatment plan with

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-34939980762103248662007-12-14T15:35:00.000-05:002007-12-14T15:41:21.533-05:00

Hey....thought I'd post an update on my mom. They discharged her from the hospital yesterday. Right in the middle of the ten inch snow storm we got. R took the T over to pick her up because he didn't want to have to deal with the hassle of driving in snow....which makes sense to me. So....they called a cab, but it never showed up. See....driving in the snow was so bad that it took my

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-25239520618095470012007-12-13T11:52:00.000-05:002007-12-13T12:20:16.228-05:00

The past week has been somewhat stressful...which has definately taken away from my holiday cheer.My mother was admitted to the hospital on Monday because of some of the problems she has been having with adhesions. Seems things were not moving easily from one end to the other....if you know what I mean. They tried this nasal tube thing to clear out the blockage. So far things seem to be

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Yup...life has been busy. Recently had bloodwork...everything looks good. ALT: 18 AST: 29. Went to the farm potluck last weekend. Saw the Bruins beat the Maple Leafs last week. Had a MRI on my shoulder. I'm still waiting to get the results. Seems my doctor is on vacation this week and couldn't get to me last week. The Red Sox won the World Series. Went to the Christmas Craft Festival at

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-3959369583275762022007-10-11T21:26:00.001-04:002007-10-12T07:52:54.660-04:00

I'm a big cupcake fan and am very psyched that they have made a comeback in the past few years. Some of my most favorite cupcakes have come from Billys Bakery (the best) and Magnolia Bakery (second best) in New York, and surprisingly......M&S Grill in Kansas City, MO. I say surprisingly because M&S is really known for their steaks and seafood and not cupcakes. But....I would recommend getting

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-58922660824295876992007-10-10T09:33:00.000-04:002007-10-10T09:51:29.858-04:00

In the past I have had left ear infections, left-side TMJ pain, left eye issues, left arch pain, and a broken left leg. Overall the left-side of my body is relatively weak and everything bad seems to happen to that side. Now I have another left-side injury to report. Seems I might have a left-shoulder labral tear. I'm not sure how this even happened. I went swimming one day after work about

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-67431823859345518982007-10-08T13:44:00.001-04:002007-10-09T12:26:23.857-04:00

We recently joined a meat CSA at Chestnut Farms in Hardwick and were psyched when we heard they would be having an Open Barn yesterday. We got up early yesterday and drove out to the farm to meet the farmers and their animals. Chestnut farms believes in the humane raising of animals and only feeds them grass and hay. The animals were so cute. They raise lamb, chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows

Yoyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421780658645558700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430950.post-34034447998548040582007-10-08T13:18:00.001-04:002007-10-09T12:22:46.744-04:00

We went to the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Harvest Celebration on Saturday. We had a great time. They had music, crafts, helicopter rides, cranberry products, and demonstrations. My favorite part was the harvest tour. They had both wet and dry harvest demonstrations going on. Admission was only $2.00 and totally worth the drive to Wareham from Somerville. Plus the weather was beautiful. We

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