Symptoms on Shine

THE 2009 FLU FROM HELL AND BACK

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You know how you feel when you are sick with a flu bug and you are coughing up your guts so hard it makes you lose control of your bladder AND your sphincter muscles? You shiver all over hot one minute, cold the next, soaking your sheets with sweat, pushing off the covers to be naked and…

THE 2009 FLU FROM HELL AND BACK

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Your kid got my kid sick!

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I hate to mention sick kids and school in the same sentence, because as hard as I try not to be, I'm superstitious. I don't want it to interfere with the wishful thinking spell I've placed…

Be honest: Do you track your periods?

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You know that dreaded moment when you are sitting in your gynecologist's office? No, not stepping on the scale. Not stripping down to your socks and the ill-fitting gown, and not the shiver of the inevitably frigid speculum.

You know the moment I mean -- the one when the just-nice-enough nurse asks you to tell her the first day of your last period.

What's it take for you to call in sick?

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A wave of coughing, congestion, and discomfort has swept through my home. It came on quickly, as it usually does, during the weeks when I haven't had enough sleep and the kids at my son's preschool seem to be more sniffly than usual. It's inevitable every that every couple of months during the winter, we will go through an alarming number of tissues, cartons of orange juice, and hours spent sitting in a steamy bathroom.

I've gotten pretty good at handling cold symptoms, especially since I've been a parent, and have my basket of medicines and remedies on the ready. What I am not good about, quite honestly, is taking time off to really fight back against the germs and weariness.

Dirget.com Fighting Breast Cancer One Visitor at a Time

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This month Dirget.com wants to help fight breast cancer. They have decided to help by donating part of their proceeds to breast cancer. Their hope? To make the fight a little easier. With the economic strain on our lives today it is difficult to help the charities we know and love. So they are...

I don't just write about periods. No, sometimes I write about PMS: How do you ease your premenstrual symptoms?

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I am at the point where a good rant is in order. It has been one of those weeks of soreness and cramps and bloated,...

Googling your symptoms: A DO or a DON’T?

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OK, I know you're probably going to think I'm going through a paranoid phase given yesterday's topic and now this, but I've recently become obsessed with Googling every ache and itch I (and Nick and

Infertility Diaries: The Newest Swear Word

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I’ve always wondered about swear words. Like, who decided which words were swear words? Who came up with the acceptable substitutes? Because I find that darn, crap, fudge, and butthole just don’t have the same pizzazz as their more naughty originals. I would like to throw another word out there...