tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post6140873302177974363..comments2023-09-28T03:32:47.642-07:00Comments on Cultivating: What a trooper!Joanna Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02568835279054666132noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post-67193250301559337102007-04-28T19:53:00.000-07:002007-04-28T19:53:00.000-07:00Jamie O. I'm so glad we are connecting through blo...Jamie O. I'm so glad we are connecting through blogger. Aren't you excited to post about moments like this in Japan? ha ha ha<BR/><BR/>I wish I could have read your post in the 1-2 paragraphs you wrote. You have a gift.Joanna Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02568835279054666132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post-82597605743023238312007-04-27T19:17:00.000-07:002007-04-27T19:17:00.000-07:00.. and i had another comment that totally was not ..... and i had another comment that totally was not posted, prior to the "post-script" for the comment. <BR/><BR/>basically, sorry about your deviated septum (only in a paragraph or two).<BR/><BR/>jamie o.Jamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08337570865342386644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post-3059755622499683462007-04-27T19:15:00.000-07:002007-04-27T19:15:00.000-07:00ps - really appreciated your thoughts on jonathonm...ps - really appreciated your thoughts on jonathon<BR/><BR/>mrs. oJamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08337570865342386644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post-67870261011923176172007-04-26T21:14:00.000-07:002007-04-26T21:14:00.000-07:00Rachel, you make me laugh, friend. Quite heartily ...Rachel, you make me laugh, friend. Quite heartily indeed. I think I read your comment, pictured you punching me in my sleep (ohhh that's what that was), pictured you trying to look up a horse's nose, and then laughed... heartily. I miss you friend. Let's get together and talk and be friends when I return. I will probably need to heartily laugh when I get back as I will be in my "ahhh, i miss japan." stage. I nominate you and Holly for that job.<BR/>Kelli, NO WAY! I was so excited after I read your comment that you have a bent septum too. I was like, "I know I shouldn't be happy about poor Kelli's nose but I am!" It made me realize how thankful I am for you and how glad I am that we met (thank you again Hil Peps and Jesus, mostly Jesus but physically Hilary!) Anywho, I think we should sit our mother's down and ask them if something odd happened at our births. maybe we are soul twins and our souls were separated at birth? ha ha ha! I am kidding. But I love that I feel connected to you and I love that I have you in my life. No, those are not new glasses (from high school, i looove finding stuff like that).<BR/>Christy, possibly the same doctor. Did you go to Tama Cen? Was he REALLY quick about everything he did. He was like, look, swab, look, spray stuff, shove poles in my nose, remove poles, look, and diagnose. It was quick. It made me miss american doctors where I get to sit and have their full attention and cry with them and tell them how I am doing and why I think I am experiencing these problems and ask about them and ask if I am okay and wonder what my future holds. :) ha ha ha seriously, I love going to the doctor because he always makes me feel better. It was better that I couldn't speak to this man, he had a mission to see and move as many people through his office as possible. Isn't it funny and crazy that our names are somewhere in those HUGE files of Japanese names... I was like, "Whoa, I am "on record" here in Japan." <BR/>I am silly... and random. Love you!Joanna Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02568835279054666132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post-74031209385290537922007-04-25T18:03:00.000-07:002007-04-25T18:03:00.000-07:00Oh my gosh! Did you go to the same doctor I went ...Oh my gosh! Did you go to the same doctor I went to for my ears?! Did Mark tell you about that? If so, than I feel your pain! He kept doing stuff and poking stuff in my affected ears and asking if it hurt and all I could do was scream "It hurts!..er, ITAI! ITAI!" It did hurt so much! ah it was horrible! But I was cured fairly soon after! I hope you have a speedy recovery as well and that you enjoy resting now! Love you!Christyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17550277980735237202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post-58245888613469111162007-04-25T09:02:00.000-07:002007-04-25T09:02:00.000-07:00Oh sister, we are connected in more ways than...tw...Oh sister, we are connected in more ways than...twelve! ha ha. seriously, our lives are knit together. Remember i shared how i was having nosebleeds? id' get them so frequently during my senior year of college that a simple laugh could shoot blood out of my nose and it'd start in again. <BR/><BR/>i went to an ENT as well (ear nose throat) and found out that I have a deviated septum as well!!! how ironic and fun is that??? we both have a crooked internal nasal passageway! wow. crazy. <BR/><BR/>so here's what i did. i started using this nasal gel (like vaseline, but not as thick and heavy if that makes sense) called Ayr (air) and you stick it in your nose and swab it around on a q-tip until you're satisfied. I do that in the morning when i wake up and at night before bed, and i carry it with me. for some reason - it has helped. seriously! i have only had one nosebleed bad, lasted 1/2 hour, since August of 2005. So yeah...maybe that's an option? let me know if you cant find that over there, and i'll start stocking up to send you with the next journal or something? or as an emergency - i'll send it when your new meds are gone? let me know i'd be glad to do that for you.<BR/><BR/>and dont get freaked by webMD - there are a LOT of people who live with a deviated septum. some people have worse symptoms than others. for example, my sister jess cannot breathe out of her nose at all - always stuffed. the only way to fix it is with experimental surgery (in Japan of all places!!!) and could cost her her sense of taste and smell. so she just lives with it. And Tom, a guy i worked with here, also has one and it causes sleep apnea. he now uses a breathing machine and sleep stuff. But me and you and my dad and others - just the common severe nosebleeders - just have to figure out how to survive and prevent! : )<BR/><BR/>we are seriously so alike.<BR/><BR/>awe, that's so cute you used the cappucino! i wish we could sip and stare and read and sit together at a coffee shop or in a house. soon friend - somehow, soon.<BR/><BR/>ps - did you get new glasses? they are super cute.. AND - that blonde wig? dude, you'd be SO CUTE as a blonde and would be TOTALLY funny! it reminds me of someone funny i've seen on tv or movies! you crack me up.<BR/><BR/>miss you and love you from rainy iowa.Kelli Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14988061283377595038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15221347.post-32771245537641471822007-04-25T07:10:00.000-07:002007-04-25T07:10:00.000-07:00Oh how I miss you and your deviated septum! It's ...Oh how I miss you and your deviated septum! It's probably from all those nights I used to beat you when we were roomies. HAHAHA, yeah right. Anyways, hopefully you start doing better and I'm pretty sure that a vast majority have a deviated septum, we just don't know it yet. I'll start checking the horses and get back to you with the results. later chica!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05499168689662753079noreply@blogger.com