http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/ [articles and poems ] HealthCentral Top Site Award Winner!]]> en-us 2008-06-12T07:24:03-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006327.html A brief entry this morning before I go to PT for my shoulder. I just started a second website featuring my artwork and jewelry, which is now up for donation and sale, and also simply for viewing. If anyone is interested, follow this link (and let me know of any problems.) http://artid.com/Turtleworks">http://artid.com/Turtleworks... pamwagg 2008-06-12T07:24:03-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006317.html I don't have much time to write this morning but I did want to make a few notes about a dilemma, though not much of one since I don't have a great deal of choice in the matter, that presents itself today, a day that is predicted to reach 98° F with a heat index of >105° F. Joe's mother,... pamwagg 2008-06-10T05:54:12-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006308.html This past week I spent the whole hour with Dr O talking about my fears concerning global warming, looming social chaos and the environmental catastrophe I felt was soon to overtake all of human civilization. Not only did I rail against our stupidity in overpopulating the earth, despite loud and vociferous warnings (remember calls for ZPG - zero population growth)... pamwagg 2008-06-05T18:27:50-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006289.html Good news! Dr C said my worry about renal disease is likely nothing. Unless the numbers keep trending up and down, ie the numbers going higher keep going up and those going down keep going down significantly, where I am now is not bad. It would only be if the numbers got a great deal worse that kidney disease would... pamwagg 2008-05-27T15:46:44-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006287.html It's late Sunday night and I've got to sleep so I'll probably start writing this then finish it on Monday or Tuesday...But I wanted to start it while I was still up. I am still a bit shaky vis a vis this Herxheimer business...Feel like I am in the midst of a hurricane at the moment, sitting in the dark... pamwagg 2008-05-26T02:02:04-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006282.html This is the corkscrew-like bacterium or spirochaete of Lyme Disease. The other famous spirochaete disease is syphilis, which is often itself treated with long term-antibiotics, a good model for Lyme treatment. My personal question concerns the corkscrew morphology: does it somehow aid the bacterium in penetrating the tissue more easily? Is it significant in terms of function? Would the... pamwagg 2008-05-24T18:58:49-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006281.html This is the tick that carries the Lyme bacteria. You should ALWAYS wear long pants and socks, and use bug repellant when walking in tall grass or in the woods. I know, bug repellants might not be "good" for you, but I assure you that the risk they confer is a great deal less than the risk of getting... pamwagg 2008-05-24T18:56:18-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006280.html I'm slowly recovering from a "bout" with demons...All week long, well, ever since Tuesday night's writing group actually, where I became suddenly distracted by numbers and letters from random sources -- license plates, book spines, letters popping off the pages of writing in seemingly significant combinations...All week long I have been in a state of increasing distress, culminating yesterday, during... pamwagg 2008-05-24T18:38:42-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006266.html I figure some of you might want to know what I look like. So here I am, in my favorite tee shirt and the one necklace -- remade since this photo using graduated real turquoise beads and sterling silver - I won't sell. This is the photo that I believe will be used for publicity for my book of poems.... pamwagg 2008-05-19T19:08:39-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006265.html This is a paper mâché lampshade I recently made. I imagine there is not much else I need to say about it! BD... pamwagg 2008-05-19T19:05:18-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006264.html Warning: If you happen to belong to my Sun Writing Group, do not continue on to the writing below as this will be offered as my contribution to our group this coming Tuesday. Naturally I prefer that you not read it in advance...To all you others, some words of explanation. First of all, I usually write a poem in response... pamwagg 2008-05-18T15:30:38-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006242.html If you have never heard of BPD it stands for Borderline Personality Disorder and I will quote the psychiatrist's Bible, the DSM IV to explain what it is: A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of... pamwagg 2008-05-08T01:34:47-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006239.html The following is for those of you who have not yet seen or heard us speak or read my speech as posted elsewhere on the blog. Even so, if you have read the original speech written in 2005-6 and recognize some familiar parts, you will see if you proceed that there is also much that is new. I promise to... pamwagg 2008-05-07T20:56:31-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006234.html This is one of my newest art projects. The bowl is papier mâché which has been gilded inside with composition gold leaf and painted outside then polyurethaned inside and out for durability. The pictures are really of slime molds, but in false colors. I've been having a blast making various things out of papier mâché recently. Along with the... pamwagg 2008-05-05T20:08:53-05:00 http://www.schizophrenia.com/pam/archives/006223.html The "art of disappearing" turned out to be a little more difficult than I thought (referring to my second to last entry and to Naomi Shihab Nye's poem, which I quoted there). To continue the story, which did not end where I left it. The next day, I got home from the grocery store, where Josephine had taken me, to... pamwagg 2008-04-29T19:29:25-05:00