My mom gets a coffee can of a mix of really good homemade cookies every year from this one family, even though she hasn't had one of their kids in her class in 12 years, the first one she had is now 20 and they actually moved 2 hours away about 5 years ago. It's really sweet of them.

And damn, those are good cookies.

My feet are so cold my calves are aching. Hate winter.

Laura, you are my dream parent.

However, you might want to avoid anything with nuts just in case one of the teachers is allergic.

I've never been asked to show the contents of any of my packages -- for what countries do they want to see inside?

Back from pain management. Hmmph. They've referred me for biofeedback. Sure. Whatever. I got no energy left to have actual opinions on my treatment.

I've never been asked to show the contents of any of my packages -- for what countries do they want to see inside?

Well, not Australia as it turns out. I just wasn't sure enough about that to make a special trip to buy tape before I went to the post office.

Back from pain management. Hmmph. They've referred me for biofeedback. Sure. Whatever. I got no energy left to have actual opinions on my treatment.

What does Biofeedback do?

I have tape at home, and tape in my trunk just in case. I also keep padded envelopes and letter sized envelopes (sometimes CD-sized ones too) in my car.

In case of a postal emergency, I'm well-stocked.

What does Biofeedback do?

That's me controlling my heart rate consciously. Which I already know how to do (experimented with it when they had me hooked up to much monitors for the rib injury), but not how to apply it.

Hopefully it'll cover more than heart rate, because there are too many contexts in which I'm striving for an elevated heart rate. They monitor brainwaves too, I think.

I was a test subject for a biofeedback experiment on brain waves.

I had to keep my alpha waves Inside The Box.

I had to keep my alpha waves Inside The Box.

Alpha waves! Alpha waves in new places!

for what countries do they want to see inside?

One post office used to get a little short wtih me when I was mailing stuff to my brother at an APO army address overseas. But that may just have been that particular office, not policy (campus post office people are the crankiest, I've found.)

Oh, that reminds me. He took his son to the Huntsville space center and one of the video things they saw was on unmanned aerial vehicles... and he was in it, from about 6 years ago. He thought it was pretty hilarious.

I think my mom did some stuff with biofeedback years ago. She had back problems and was later diagnosed with lupus, so I don't know how exactly, but it sounds familiar.

ita, I'm sorry you're going through all that. It sounds really really tough.

Biofeedback has been recommended for me, too, but not in a way my insurance would go for. So I haven't gotten any. I have no doubt that learning to control some of my body's reaction would be good. Some of what I go through is due to posture and the muscles having shortened in such a way that they clamp down on the nerves and vessels going into the arm, but some of what I go through is due to the fact I'm a highly sensitive person and I have near-instant physical reactions to stress. Learning how to put a stick in that feedback loop is what biofeedback is supposed to help me with. I'm glad that you're getting some referrals because at least the insurance company should be cool with that.