While I was waiting to have the doc check my (now deaf) ears after coming out of the gas chamber this week her phone rang. The ring tone is the theme from The Exorcist. I commented that it seemed an odd choice for someone conducting ear exams instead of throwing demons out of the possessed.Continue reading “ringalingadingdong”
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sick stamps
MJE received a well meaning note of sympathy and support from an acquaintance of a few years back, someone who upon hearing of my medical situation self-morphed into a “dear friend.” I’ve discovered that when you’re sick, it’s like being the new “it” girl in junior high, everyone wants to be in your orbit. WellContinue reading “sick stamps”
katrina chronicles revisited
A decade ago, before MJE was a even a twinkle in her mother’s eye, hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and MJE’s alter ego penned a series of dispatches about the experience. In honor of the tenth anniversary MJE is reprinting those rambling postings. They were written during the immediate days and weeks after the stormContinue reading “katrina chronicles revisited”
prairie woman cookin’
This week MJE finally had enough of dated TV shows and made the switch to the channel of what’s happening now, the Food Network. The line up during my time slot is eclectic, Rachel Ray, the Barefoot Contessa, some buxom bleached blonde chef who talks to her food and of course, teeth and tits Giada. ButContinue reading “prairie woman cookin’”
the little bastard
MJE seriously underestimated the depths to which she would be subjected when she thought she’d bottomed out what with being forced to lie in the gas chamber for hours on end. Turns out, the god of malicious medical technology was just warming up. The first indication was that the doc of the perpetually afflicted decidedContinue reading “the little bastard”
blast off
The latest salvo to be launched against MJE’s body’s seemingly unquenchable desire to self-destruct is Hyperbaric Chamber therapy. It involves lying on a gurney inside a plastic tube into which pure oxygen is pumped and pressurized to three times the normal. The purported benefit is an increase in the oxygenation of the blood, stimulating theContinue reading “blast off”
X$&? #@
The last post was dedicated to MJE’s current state of hairlessness, which at press time seemed to be a fairly significant side-effect of the chemo treatments. But this week I have careened into the fine print in the drug pamphlet. Those side effects that are on about page 40 and are described as “possible, butContinue reading “X$&? #@”
the human thumb
MJE continues to be plagued with various unwanted consequences of a few too many cocktails, and no I don’t mean waking up and finding the dog wearing her underpants or discovering the bird feeder on the kitchen counter filled with mixed nuts and surrounded by bloated house mice. Those are the result of an overindulgenceContinue reading “the human thumb”
interiors for idiots
You can imagine MJE’s surprise upon opening this week’s Sunday NYT Magazine and finding the house where MJE and the OB&C got married! Back in the day, it belonged to my stepfather Monsieur Zero whom my mother had married in the vain hope that he would provide her with a carefree existence of travel andContinue reading “interiors for idiots”
solar pope
MJE doesn’t like to beat a dead horse vis a vis religion, but a friend sent me a solar powered pope today in honor of his holiest’s visit to South America and just couldn’t resist. First, a wise geographic move il papa, since there are only two continents worth your time, the one you’re onContinue reading “solar pope”
my jaundiced eye 