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Kate Update: January 5, Mayo Clinic, Day One

Written by Kate Blaylock Topics: My Life, Trying Stuff

Jan­u­ary 5, 2010
Today was my first day at Mayo. It went well. I have an unusual doc­tor, with a “bed­side” man­ner unlike any­thing I have expe­ri­enced pre­vi­ously. Despite his odd behav­ior, my doc­tor seems to really know his stuff. He has me on a new five-part reg­i­men which con­sists of drink­ing an inor­di­nate amount of water […]

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Kate Update: January 4, Arizona, Mayo Clinic

Written by Kate Blaylock Topics: My Life, Trying Stuff

I’ve pon­dered how best to relate the events of the last month, and have decided to be most open and share the notes I wrote for myself , while in Ari­zona.  These will read a bit more like a jour­nal than you may be accus­tomed to, but I make no apolo­gies.
Jan­u­ary 4, 2010
Tonight Mom and I […]

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Keeping Less, Living More, Part 1: Breakthrough

Written by Kate Blaylock Topics: My Life, Trying Stuff

Since I returned from vaca­tion on July 5th I’ve been a nearly-crazy-Kate about get­ting rid of things.  Though I am not sure what trig­gered my new clar­ity, I do know I can no longer han­dle excess stuff… tan­gi­ble stuff, paper stuff, emo­tional stuff, unnec­es­sary stuff.  To be frank, I can barely han­dle the nec­es­sary stuff.
It started […]

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Chronic Pain and Cortisone, Part 2

Written by Kate Blaylock Topics: Fibromyalgia and..., Trying Stuff

Now, three weeks after my first expe­ri­ence with cor­ti­sone injec­tions, and two weeks since I wrote the above, I am back to share my experience.

While the cor­ti­sone injec­tions helped reduce my back pain, I feel a bit hung up on the fact that I am treat­ing yet another symp­tom, while the cause (known or oth­er­wise) con­tin­ues to exist (I assume). Maybe I should not be so quick to write off the ben­e­fit? The injec­tions did break a season-long cycle of pain. And I firmly believe that is a nec­es­sary step in erad­i­cat­ing pain… teach­ing your body not to hurt. Call me new-age or crazy, but I’m right.

I appre­ci­ate the pain relief and can’t imag­ine what I would have done with­out it, but the cor­ti­sone didn’t fix the cause, so when I lift things, bend just right, or sit for extended peri­ods of time I still hurt. I do not want to grow depen­dent on just reliev­ing pain. I want to heal. I want to get well.

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Chronic Pain and Cortisone, Part 1

Written by Kate Blaylock Topics: Fibromyalgia and..., My Network, Trying Stuff

I started writ­ing this post, but I quickly got side­tracked by some­thing that com­pletely changed what I have to say.  This will be a two part post.
Last night, after months of baby­ing my back, I decided to head to the gym with the guys.  You see, my hus­band meets a friend to work­out every night at […]

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