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... but only one of them is even arguably a cookbook (it apparently contains some recipes but is primarily Popular Writing About Vegetables). Good job me.

In this instance precipitated by finding a pointer to Hurts So Good: the science & culture of pain on purpose (Leigh Cowart), which is extremely relevant to my current Thinking And Reading About Pain (related: I am going to try to get my act together to actually write up some thoughts on The Way Out, a book on the topic of pain reprocessing therapy, but I make no promises). The cheapest place I could find it was Oxfam. Oxfam still have a flat £3.95 postage charge regardless of how many objects you buy from them (some exceptions apply).

I also acquired a copy of I Contain Multitudes (Ed Yong), which I expect to want to reread or at least dip into; Crush, because to date I have read approximately none of Siken's poetry and I suspect I will find it easier in hard copy; more Tufte (Envisioning Information) because it was right there; and Touch (David Linden), because it was cheap and looked vaguely interesting and the library doesn't have a digital copy, and which also turns out to have at least one chapter focussed on pain.

... and some CDs for A, and some clothes for me, and as I say NO MORE COOKBOOKS. Good job, self.

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On the other [personal profile] recessional has been great about doing an initial lit sift re evidence base for preoperative downregulation of gonadal sex hormone production for the specific purpose of making surgery easier and less risky, which has netted me Perioperative hormone treatment of endometriosis and The effect of hormonal treatment on ovarian endometriomas: a systematic review and meta-analysis, which are definitely both in the "nice to know" category even as the overall conclusion re my specific question is "lol what systematic reviews"...

... and also the concept of "pain phenotyping" and, thence, "nociplastic pain", terminology I had not previously met but which is apparently replacing "central sensitisation". I am also finding the section of wikipedia on pain mechanisms reassuring, in that yep turns out that my internal drafting of The Book On Pain is actually doing a reasonable job of covering The General Areas even as I need (which I already knew!) to bring myself actually up to date with, like, the lit.

Not least because it contains a bunch of interesting terminology of relatively recent vintage that I wasn't previously familiar with!

(Not great time of it: e.g. having to work really hard to stifle shrieks about Wrong Pillowcase Escaped From Containment. More context does not make this more reasonable.)

(Book On Pain: working title "on pain; of pain", because I have decided that actually the Everyone's Terrible But Have You Tried Yoga? Friend essay and the Emotional Pain Is Real Pain (Things I Wish Pain Clinics Had Explained Better) essay are. a book. rather than essays. Current document length: 324 words. Think I'm gonna try writing the book and then distilling the essays back out. We'll see.)

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