Women’s Fertility Lab Tests, Explained Female Fertility Hormone Levels (serum/blood) Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) Time to Test: Day 3 – Normal Range: 3-20 mIU/ml FSH is often used as a gauge of ovarian reserve. General results indicate the following: 6: considered excellent 6-9: good 10-13: diminished reserve 13+: very hard to stimulate In Polycystic Ovarian…

There is no doubt that the times have significantly shifted since my parents’ generation has been walking through their rights of passage in aging. We all know the term midlife crisis.  But what does this actually look like?  It is certainly no longer an “empty nest” / “identity syndrome” where the retiree gets to roam…

Well, it’s been a while since I have written a medical article. I often find myself asking: Why Do I share my journey and how does it relate to my medical practice? The winter was DEEP and if you do not know already,  I am a total feeler, analyzer, and dreamer.  I calculate, express, and…

To all my liver lover health geeks n freaks: Spring is your time. The liver and gall bladder are the official directors for the next few months. This is the time for our visionary selves to be in full throttle.  This is the time for vision boards, planners, and actions. In accounting world, Q1 begins…

Today, Jan 5, was an auspicious day to dedicate embracing the whole me.  This is the endurance mountain of self love.  To know her, trust her that she will care for me physically emotionally, and spiritually.   She will no longer string me out or drag me to the ground.  She will speak for me, from…

I woke up in the morning on the futon of Ithica NY, covered in blood.  Is this my period? “NO fuck, you’re pregnant” — shaking, I began to clean up.  So much blood.  I called my midwife in OR at 430am, 130 her time  Silently desperately screaming as not to wake the nice man up…

I tend toward melancholy and I tend toward anxiety. But if I am to be honest, it is only when I am majorly compromised (think fired from my job) that these predispositions reach a clinical level. Do I have trauma in my past? Yes.  To name but a few emotional hardships I’ve faced: I was…

When I first re-entered the traditional clinical setting, I had to take a moment.  I was in a split between clinical world & activism world and how on this Planet to manage the two perfectly balanced.  I have come to find nothing is perfect. I have witnessed over and over again. When I am able…

If I spent even a fraction of the time doing the things I “think about” about doing I would have long since gained mastery over a number of new disciplines. On any given day I get about 2 total hours wherein I am the master of only my own destiny. I am a mother, a…

Why is it so radical to be radical?  I never find myself fully in a circle, I generally walk between circles, receiving and giving what I need.  Radical is the common denominator of all of the circles I tend. Radical is root.  Raiz is root.  We come into this world with a radical nature,  to…