Stephanie Briggs - Handmade Knitting My Way Through Chronic Pain

Knitting by hand, owned by three cats and a manbeast

Rosen and Schierhorn’s “The Phantom of the Opera”

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Rosen and Schierhorn’s The Phantom of the Opera Vacillating on watching David Staller in a different musical version of “Phantom of the Opera” (or exposing DH to it and possibly harming him!). From what I remember seeing it years ago, it was quite good in certain parts, but at times, the saccharine quality and extreme kitsch was […]

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A Proper Pain Scale – Update!

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I’m seeing the doctor again tomorrow for another adjustment to my pain medications. The current ones (Topiramate, Imigran) are NOT working, and I’m on a waiting list – apparently a very long one, for intracranial pressure monitoring. Pain levels (intractable headaches) are far too high. Ideally they should be negligible, but since we don’t live […]

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Laptops vs. Desktops – The Death of Number Pads

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Today I’m working on resizing my Etsy business card pictures on Moo**, which involves entering two sets of numbers over and over for pixel dimensions on http://www.resizemypicture.com I love my laptop for its light weight and transport capabilities, but entering the numbers with the single row of number keys is becoming more and more painful […]

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Gravol is making me stutter (NSFW)

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I take Gravol, an anti-emetic, for pain relief. I have hydrocephalus, and the headaches I get are caused (probably partially) by low intracranial pressure (ICP) and slit ventricles. When my pain is very high (above a 7 on the pain scale), the only words that come out of my mouth are obscenities. Furthermore, one of the […]

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Video Review: Charlotte Church’s Performance of “Phantom of the Opera” Flops

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I have many problems with Charlotte Church’s performance of “The Phantom of the Opera”. She is far too young: she was 12 years old when she sang this. (Would you want a 30-year old woman singing the role of young Cosette in “Les Miserables” in the song “Castle on a Cloud!? Of course not!) Christine […]

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Book Review: “The Escape of Alexei, Son of Tsar Nicholas II: What Happened the Night the Romanov Family Was Executed”

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This book was ghostwritten by someone hoping to make a name for himself, and he tells the story of one Vasily Filatov, who claimed to be Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia. The Tsarevich Alexei died, along with the rest of his family and their servants, by firing squad in the basement of the Ipatiev House on […]

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What the fuck is going on medically with me (NSFW)

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  I try not to rant in blog posts. I’m supposed to be mature as I enter my thirties, right? The Seaspray shawl is slowly growing. Because I’m really sick now with what we suspect is shunt overdrainage (low intracranial pressure), there are very few days when I feel like knitting, so it’s coming along […]

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