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Nothing Like a Good Bloodletting Before Christmas

Well, the miscarriage wasn’t complete and earlier this week, I had profuse bleeding, including the passing of large blood clots and couldn’t get in to see an OB/GYN since they were all out delivering babies. Finally got seen on Thursday, and there was one piece of placenta just hanging out by my cervix; she fished [...]

The FDA and AIT and hookworms

So, looks like the FDA discovered Jasper and AIT’s orginization.  Doesn’t look good.  We may be on our own from here on out.  Considering the FDA has frequently blocked importation of TSO, which is supposedy created in a reputable pharamaceutical company in Germany and/or Thailand, I don’t think they’re going to OK a hookworm incubation [...]

Hookworms help Celiac Disease!

The Australian celiac disease trial just released their data.  It worked!  Those with celiac disease were able to eat bread with much less intestinal damage than the placebo. And everyone elected to keep their hookworms.  And they were only given 15 worms total, so that’s pretty amazing. http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2009/s2721104.htm and http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26244355-26103,00.html I can contest that I [...]

Pregnant!

Not content to be one of the first women with Crohn’s disease trying hookworms, I thought I’d just throw a new loop in the mix.  I just found out I am pregnant!  Oh boy.  My new worms just attached yesterday as well.  Now, besides approximately 20 hookworms, I have a new parasite growing inside of [...]

The Week From Hell

This last week has been one of my more trying ones.  My husband left on Saturday, and that night, I didn’t sleep at all.  That reawoke the anxiety/insomnia that I’ve now experienced last month, and in July; always on my PMS week.  The first was when I was travelling, so I wrote it off to [...]