Positively Phoebe

Random Thing #1: We made our first batch of kombucha.  I bought some canning jars to store it in and had a cup last night and another with breakfast today.  I was a little nervous last night.  My first sip was kinda puke-y tasting, but I think the notes I was tasting were less "vomit" and more "new and unlike anything familiar".  I am pretty psyched about it, actually, and am looking forward to keeping the brewing going.  With it taking 10 days or so per batch, though, I think I may start doing two at once, a little staggered, so we don't run out in between.   Random Thing #2: I've been strangely "sad" the past few days.  (Maybe the idea to try to ween myself down on the zoloft was a bad one?)  I came to a weird realization on Saturday... ever since I have begun to feel better, I HATE being home.  Home now feels like "the place that I was trapped when I was too sick to go out anywhere."  On weekends, especially, if I have no specific ...

Thursday night Ryan and I paid another visit to Dr. Caputo, our naturopathic physician.  I absolutely love this woman.  She is no bullshit.  No woo-woo.  No hippie shit.  No unhealthy raw vegan nonsense recommendations.  Just pure natural science about how the body works and what it needs to work best. Now that treatments are over and I am feeling not just back to normal but BETTER than normal, Ryan wanted me to go back and see her about ways to maybe apply natural medicine to some of the OTHER things plaguing me.  Allergies.  Anxiety.  Menopause.  Yadda yadda. We figured if there were any of the chemicals I am on that could be replaced with something natural, we might feel more comfortable with that.  Ryan was specifically concerned about the hormone replacement therapy drugs.  She was very honest about this, saying that the fact that they have me on both Estradiol (estrogen) AND Provera (progesterone) is far less likely t...