Stephanie Briggs - Handmade Knitting My Way Through Chronic Pain

Knitting by hand, owned by three cats and a manbeast

June is Hydrocephalus Awareness Month

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Just because we are “good” one day does not mean we are “good” the next… and just because we had surgery we are not “fixed”. Shunting is a management system for us. It helps and for a lot of people it works wonders for years but other times they fail, and clog and get infected […]

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Why Do People Get Blindsided Into Believing Pseudoscience?

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In the latest post on The Skeptical OB, Dr Amy Tuteur writes about the danger in believing and/or relying on the simplistic reasons that natural birth activists (NCBers), naturopaths, and other pseudoscientific information that exhorts us to believe that we can control the uncontrollable. Invariably, they claim that by adhering to the rules they give, humans […]

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Thoughts on “Why Kate Middleton’s Perfect Post-Partum Look Hurts Moms”

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Whilst I am happy that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their new daughter HRH Charlotte are doing well, I don’t want to think about how the Duchess of Cambridge is so privileged to be able to look like that less than 24 hours after giving birth. This article thinks it’s the Duchess’ duty […]

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Making My Own Stitch Markers for Knitting and Crochet

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With the help and encouragement of a Facebook friend who contributed to this post, I recently started making my own stitch markers for knitting and crochet, to offer on my Etsy shop. (Thanks, Lisa!) What are stitch markers? Stitch markers are used to mark the beginning of a round or a point where you want to […]

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Over-Entitlement About Coffee Cups

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This guy needs to stop being a whiny little bitch. No, scratch that – not just this guy. EVERYONE needs to get a grip and realize that this isn’t important. Arabic names in particular have many different ways to spell them. I wouldn’t expect a barista to be able to hear me: they have whooshing […]

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Is Gender Bias in Medicine Killing Young Men and Women? (UPDATED 2 May 2017)

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UPDATED: 2 May 2017: “How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously – When my wife was struck by mysterious, debilitating symptoms, our trip to the ER revealed the sexism inherent in emergency treatment” ******** 15 March 2015 – I came across this article in Huffington Post. It postulates that sometimes, women’s medical complaints are fobbed off by […]

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More on Inspiration Porn

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There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension. ~John Steinbeck I came across this article today about inspiration porn. I’ve written about it before. The author, Dana S. Dunn, is currently Professor of Psychology and Director of the Learning in Common (LinC) Curriculum at Moravian College, Pennsylvania. One of his former students has […]

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What Does “Don’t Judge Me!” Really Mean?

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The new obsession online these days is the idea/phrase “Don’t judge me.” I don’t think the adults who use it so liberally even understand what it means any more. Is it one of these? “Don’t have an opinion about what I tell you.”? “Don’t be angry with me.”? “I am perpetually psychologically in the third […]

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Myth and Reality in “House M.D.”

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Everybody lies…even the producers of the hit series House MD. Dr Gregory House, like his namesake, Sherlock Holmes, is “addicted” to Vicodin. But not without cause: he has legitimate severe, chronic pain in his leg from an infarction that has left him permanently lame. They do not differentiate, in this series, between “addiction” (they love […]

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