Susan's Pendulum

Elizabeth's arrival is the best of the recent events.  But, oh!, I do wish I had the strength and endurance to go help more, visit more,...

When a brain aneurysm ruptures, blood mixes with the cerebrospinal fluid.  Your brain doesn't like that.  Neither do your nerves.  That ...

When one of my babies was head-up and bottom-down, the midwife suggested I try turning him.  She said that doctors can sometimes manipulate ...

(Notes to remind myself.  Nobody else will want to bother reading.) Low-fat vegan diet for several days: no caffeine, no sugar, no gluten,...

Those pains in the neck?  I'm too tall; our back massager cannot reach them.   As I sat reading to Maggie, I tried contorting into weir...

One of my daughters (a lonnnng way off from menopause) mentioned that she sometimes uses refined salt because of the iodine content.  When s...

Three weeks ago Gary hurt his back by committing the wild and crazy act of [gasp!] setting a coffee cup on his desk.  After several doctor v...

I polluted my body today.  Attending a conference, I consumed a cup of coffee (with sugar), a cup of tea (with sugar), some white-bread nood...

Salt water from a neti-pot can clean out sinuses.  Salt-water gargles can soothe a sore throat and wash away excess mucus from the throat. ...

When you most need the good food, when you most need to avoid store-bought products with their additives, when you most need vitamin-packe...

Because I bruise easily, I know that every single bump into a corner of a counter-top, a piece of furniture, or a car door, will result in a...

With symposium, company, and berry-time, I have been lax recently in remembering my vitamins, green drink, and enzymes. Now I'm feeling...

Arnica is supposed to be very good for healing bruises. While looking for suggestions on dealing with carpal-tunnel pain, I ran across a re...

Between counting money and working a mouse, I'm feeling carpal tunnel problems originally developed in gardening. (And I'm not even...

Stores sell packets of sinus rinse for people with allergies or sinus infections. But if you want to use a neti-pot or a sinus-rinse kit, ...

Winter means split, cracked, painful heels. Taking good care of your feet prevents the worst of the problems, but the dry air from the furn...

Finally, somebody writing about the need to get our bodies out into the sunshine, without sunscreen! I thought it was particularly interest...

Grossness warning -- beep beep beep You have been warned ... With ragweed season upon us, it's taking forever for me to use the neti pot...

I'd never had migraines until this spring when I started getting some pretty awful "ice pick" headaches. (Or at least, I'...

After learning from a master herbalist that comfrey is totally awesome at healing cuts and other skin problems, I added a pound of comfrey l...