Posts Tagged ‘me’

The latest commercial from Dove's "Campaign for Real Beauty" movement is an illuminating one, especially if you've never really internalized the fact that models on magazine covers and advertisements are Photoshopped to within an inch of their lives. Everyone "knows" that, of course, but still there's that hidden (or not-so-hidden) belief that someone who looks like that actually exists somewhere outside of a Barbie box, and that if women just try hard enough — and buy the right things — they can look like that too.

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So, got tested again and saw the doctor this morning, and here's where I'm at:

My total cholesterol, which was 227, and needs to be under 200, is now 159.
My triglycerides, which were 211, and need to be under 150, are now 158.
My HDL cholesterol (the good kind), which was 38, and needs to be over 40, is now 40.

My BP was 120 over 80. Didn't catch my heartrate or temperature but the nurse didn't shriek so I'm guessing all was well. My doctor told me I'd lost a pound a half since the last visit (in clear contradiction to what my bathroom scale has been telling me, but then last time the nurse had me take my shoes off and this time she didn't, so I'm assuming my shoes weigh 7 pounds) but that things were going well and to keep going.
Also found out, through an ultrasound a few weeks ago, that I have a fatty liver (Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH) which is not a problem at the moment and whose treatment is… pretty much exactly what I'm doing anyway.

All in all I am extremely pleased, as I was afraid that after the dieting and (sigh) total abandonment of nondiet soft drinks my cholesterol would be higher or something and I'd have go vegetarian. Looks like I can continue as I have been, and start adding more exercise to bring the weight down.

Just keeping everyone in the loop.

The marketing department at the newspaper where I work is running a "behind the scenes" promotion that showcases individuals that the public doesn't usually see, as a way of making the whole process of news more personal. One of those people is, apparently, me, and here's what ran in our Sports section (?) last week.

In my defense, I didn't write the copy, and I was kinda hoping they'd use the shot where I had my head cradled on top of my monitor ("Precious! My precious!"). But I am pleased that, in a roundabout, hidden-in-the-background way, I got to plug a bunch of my favorite things. Can you identify all the Serenity items? Find the different Deaths? Locate the two different PvPonline references?

or, "How to Have a Stroke Without That Twisty Arm Thing."

Realized I haven't mentioned my ER visit of a few weeks ago. Funny story…

It started on a Tuesday afternoon in mid-March when I started seeing spots, like I'd been looking up at the sun. Not a lot of suns in my office, though. It stayed with me, making it difficult to work and giving me a headache trying to focus through. I went out for a walk and it cleared up. That night at home I got another killer headache and went to bed around 8, very unusual for me. Both the bedtime and the headache; I rarely get headaches at all without obvious reasons, such as weather pressure changes or large men with pipe wrenches.

The next day at work I started getting blurry vision and suddenly, in the middle of writing an e-mail, I couldn't type. Couldn't string together words, couldn't spell anything. I rewrote the same sentence six times (badly) before banging the keyboard and leaving. Outside I started hyperventilating. I called Teres, who told me to get to the ER. By that point I wasn't up to driving, Teres called a friend of ours that works with me and she came out, found me, and took me to emergency.
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Just saw this pic in a story we ran about Shooter Jennings, son of Waylon Jennings.

This is damn near exactly what I looked like when I was 20.

I wouldn't have had the low-rise jeans, the wrist cuff, and the t-shirt would have been something geeky, but damn.

I don't think I ever met Mrs. Jennings…

May 21 is Chris Bridges Day

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In other news, the Board of Selectmen Monday night approved a request for the Christine Bridges Nursing Scholarship Walkathon around Lake Quannapowitt on May 21. The day has also been declared Christine Bridges Day in Wakefield by selectmen.

"We can say many things about Chris," said Sharon McLean, speaking for the Bridges family. "She did so much for the town of Wakefield, for our students, our culture, our seniors … She made a huge difference in this town."

Carney said that the proclamation of May 21 as Chris Bridges Day is "a tribute" to the longtime Chestnut Street resident, who was a nursing professor and a former School Committee member.

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I'd like to send congratulations to my namesake, even though they missed my birthday by one day.