So after my 2 fun colonoscopies all I wanted was food. I knew that I should stay away from really high fiber foods and I decided I’d stay away from raw fruits and veggies for awhile and let my system heal a bit. So I toasted up some ezkekial bread, a qrunch quinoa burger, sauteed …
Making everything from scratch is good, but can be exhausting. Sometimes you wish you could just go to the store, buy one of those Betty Crocker pre-made brownie mixes, add some eggs and water and bake for 25 minutes. I’m pretty much obsessed with buying things on amazon and online (ask my family- I get …
What do you get when you mix a bad digestive system, not eating anything for 2 1/2 days, taking a barium swallow test and having a colonoscopy? Disaster. Tuesday I had my barium swallow test. My system really wasn’t wanting food, so the only thing I ate Monday and Tuesday was some basamati rice and …
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So how is my knee doing since starting use of the Lovenox blood thinner injections for my avascular necrosis treatment? That was the million dollar question going into my last check up in the beginning of April. Since I was diagnosed with avascular necrosis in December 2012, I’ve tried so many different things to try …
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Looking through the infinite pages of the internet, I found very few medication treatments for Avascular Necrosis (AVN). Most doctors, if they recommend treatment, throw pain killers, nerve suppressors or surgical options your way. I was lucky to find a doctor who wanted to help me get to the bottom of why I had AVN. …
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What are you doing tonight?? You should tune in to watch me in my first Stanford Medicine X Live! It’s a weekly broadcast that focuses on different health and technology related topics. I feel so honored that they’ve asked me to be on a panel tonight which will discuss taking on a leadership role as …
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The internet is a wonderful resource and holds so much information. It afforded me the opportunity to join many wonderful online communities that helped support my diagnosis’s. It seemed that every orthopedic doctor I went to had the same thing to say.. You’re AVN is idiopathic and we’ll really never know why it occurred. I’m …
My parents have always been my biggest supporters. Everything I did they’d be front row, cheering for me. I was always so grateful for them and they made me feel so proud to be their daughter. They always said that I’d never understand how proud I made them until I had my own kids. I …
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A song you hear every time you turn on Sirius BPM is Armin Van Buuren’s Alone. His message is so true. Everyone is so connected in this world through technologies, but are we really ‘connecting’? I alot of my support, with the exception of my immediate family, comes from my twitfam online. They’re always there …
You may have noticed I’ve been pretty absent for the last 2 weeks…. I’ve been wondering when I was going to experience getting ‘normal person’ sick while being on humira. Last year I spent most of my time secluded and not around a lot of germs soooooo I was able to stay ‘healthy’. I started …
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