Health

By Trula • May 1st, 2010

McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc., in consultation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is voluntarily recalling all lots that have not yet expired of certain over-the-counter (OTC) Children’s and Infants’ liquid products manufactured in the United States and distributed in the United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, Dubai (UAE), Fiji, Guam, Guatemala, [...]

My son Todd got this sudden lump on his neck. It appeared one night right before bedtime, and looked like a spider bite. By early morning it was the size and feel of a soft-boiled egg. He wasn’t in any pain and not feverish, so I held off rushing him to the emergency room and [...]

This is from the blog A Girl and Her Lung. I wish everyone so adamant against health care reform could/would read about her life. excerpt: I’m writing this today, not because I am out to change anyone’s mind, or because I see myself as a political activist, but because our daughter lives with an on-going, [...]

Every day after school T-bop and I got knock some apples off the tree int he back yard. He loves apples! This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Mama Specific Productions!

This piece, written by Nicole C. Kearny Cooper, was first published in my Afro Mama zine, which I published 2002-2004. You can find more topics like it in the Afro Mama book I knew I wanted a midwife and was lucky enough to find Saras (Vedam, CNM). The first time I meet with her, she [...]

I have one child who is a picky eater. This caused a lot of anxiety on my part until she was around 5ish and I had my second child and didn’t have time to indulge her finickiness anymore; meaning I could no longer make her separate meals. One of my older sisters gave me suggestions [...]

One of my sisters has gone back to a destructive relationship. I don’t know what to do. I know there is nothing I can do, but I still feel like there is something, anything, some word or phrase I can say that will show her she is worth so much more than this. She is [...]

I always intellectually knew caffeine’s a drug, but I didn’t really understand how addictive it is. All the time I was drinking coffee, I truly felt that I loved it so because it just tasted and smelled sooooo goooood. Now that it’s been almost 2 months since I had my last cup, I feel completely [...]

I am not going to the AMC after all, I’m going to run down to Cincinnati to see my dad. As regular readers know he has prostrate cancer which was being treated pretty aggressively with chemo and radiation. My mom just called me to say they want to do surgery now, tonight. The cancer was [...]

When you don’t have insurance, you sometimes ‘abuse’ the system by default. I went to the emergency room for strep-throat treatment years and years ago (after having strep for nearly 2 months thinking I would go to a doctor as soon as I could get the money together). Doctors here require that you pay upfront, [...]

Ok today, May 1st, 2006 is my official day of going off coffee. I have slowly weaned myself off it for the past month or so, and I feel ready I can do it. I am glad I didn’t decide to go cold turkey, that would have been too great a shock to my system. [...]

I am a coffee addict, pure and simple. I really need to quit, because coffee is very hard on the body. I am 34 now and I really need to get my health in order. People tell me all the time that I look like I’m in my early 20s, and certainly can act like [...]

Someone asked a question about gum disease over at Afro Punk and I thought hey I should put that on my blog too. Oooooooooooh man, I could write a book on this. Maybe I should, LOL. This disease SUCKS. Be very glad if they catch it in the early stages. I have lost 3 teeth [...]

I did good all this week! I am so proud of myself. I did eat some potato chips twice and pretzels once this past week but I did not add any salt to any food. I bought and ate some unsalted peanuts!! I LOVE salty peanuts so much, ya’ll just don’t know. But I ate [...]

I am a salt FIEND. I love salty foods. Potato chips, salted rice, tofu with soy sauce, salted peanuts, etc. I am vegan and eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. I do a Master Cleanse every 4 months of so. I drink lots of water and very little caffeine. But I consume waaaaay too [...]

My father fell recently and is not doing so well. Please send your vibes, well wishs, and prayers. I love my father very much, he is an awesome dad and a smart, fun, interesting person. This pic is of us last summer at my house.

No hunger pangs at all today! But when I was cooking dinner, tofu stir-fry, it smelled sooooooo gooooood. I was almost literally drooling, oh my goodness. Slight headache in the morning which passed in about 20 minutes, and a craving for coffee which passed in a few minutes. Physically I seem to be losing weight [...]

Oh my, Day 4 went by so fast. I had a brief headcahe and brief feeling of hunger in the morning, but other than that, no problems. I am noticing that I can smell the oil in food more. Brian got the kids pizza for dinner last night and the smell ofit was so strong!! [...]

here it is:Day 3 I am ending out day three tonight, and it was brutal today. I really really really craved coffee today and was very close to breaking. But I had no coffee in my house and by the time I got in the car and up the street to the store, the craving [...]

Day 2 went ok. I again had hunger during breakfast time, but it passed when I drank the lemon mixture. My energy was better too, I didn’t feel tired during the afternoon. This may be too much info, but I only had one small poop session in the morning. Starting Day 3 I will also [...]

Day 1 went ok. I felt hungry in the morning, which surprised me because I usually have to force myself to eat breakfast. But my body missed that bowl of oatmeal! I sipped on the fasting drink throughout the day, In total I drank about 60 oz of that and 66 oz of water (two [...]

I am going on the Master Cleanse tomorrow! Anyone care to join me? I will post updates each day. I have done it before for a few days, this time I plan to do 12-14 days. I am in my 20th year as a vegetarian, last year I went vegan after 19 years as a [...]

(Read Part 1 and Part 2 for the whole story) Now though I did not agree with much of what dark daughta wrote, I liked the way she wrote. She’s a good writer, so even though I didn’t agree with much of what she wrote I wanted to talk to her more. So I wrote [...]

I’m musing on this because I am working on an article about monogamy. I am in a long-term monogamous heterosexual marriage, our tenth anniversary of being together will be Feb. 14th (legally married 7 years come May 7th). Because of my sexual identity/orientation and marriage I am fully aware that I have a socially-approved and [...]

I want to do this again badly, I just need to figure out when would be a good time to start it. Maybe this friday… See more progress on: master cleanse

Over on one of my favorite community sites, hipmama, 2 mamas posted about wanting to commit suicide. To say we were all shocked and appalled is an understatement. Part of what I told her: I have talked about it many times before on this site but you may not know that I almost killed my [...]

Jack LaLane Power Juicer by Jack LaLane Brian got me this for my birthday and I just love it. We have been juicing fools as of late! This thing is so cool, you can throw in whole pieces of fruit without peeling or cutting. It gets so much juice out, I am amazed. And you [...]

I am sick as a dog. I think I have strep throat. This really sucks. At the hint of a cough, I boil a yellow onion or two in 2-3 cups of water then drink the boiled onion water. It usually works! I haven’t used an OTC cough and cold remedy in over 3 years. [...]

Making this one of my 43things was one of the smartest things I ever did because if helped me to confront my sleeping patterns and ‘force’ myself to change. I am now sleeping 7-8 hours a night! and I cannot believe how different I feel. I am amazed at the physical difference. If asked before [...]

I stayed up last night until 5am working on stuff. I worked on my store for this site, I printed up some zines, and I made stabs at getting my downstairs ‘office’ organized. My legs tend to fall asleep when I sit for long periods so I made sure to get up and walk around [...]