Well I've gone and done it. I am signing up for a medical study which is testing a new drug for the treatment of Hidradenitis Suppurativa. As the study documentation says, there is currently no (NO, none, zip, zilch, nada) FDA-approved treatment for HS. This study may help to change that. The benefits of using this stuff look to be good, and they outweigh any side effects according to what's out there. For the first 26 weeks I may get a placebo, but for the last 26 I'll get the real thing. I spent today going from place to place getting all sorts of things checked out. It was exhausting, but I got it all done in one day straight through.

And I got my car checked out on a break between appointments over lunch. I've got a driver's ed event this weekend at the same track where I drove my very first track event last year. I'm really looking forward to it. Rumor has it, My Real Driving Coach will be there. I'm actually supposed to see him after work tomorrow to go for a ride-along. And then again Saturday at the driver's ed thing. My car checked out fine, and my replacement numbers should be here later this week. ( Read more... )

This is how the sky looked as I left the salon this afternoon. Of course!

I realize in preparing to write about hidradenitis suppurativa that I have actually written very, very little about it, here, or anywhere. I talked a little about why last time, and reading things like I read today online only reinforces my inclination to "come out" more about my experience with this disease. Gotta run. Back later with links.( Read more... )

Pretty tree.

Today at work, I found myself Googling information about how to determine how many pages are in a megabyte of computer memory. Starting out, I knew the calculation would be imprecise, because the 175+ megabytes of memory I was wondering about are comprised of at least five different document types. So using this handy table, I computed an average of the numbers corresponding to the five document types, and it came out to 100 pages per megabyte. That, multiplied by 175 megs, is 17,500 pages. And I fear this is a very conservative estimate.( Read more... )