Last week, I met my case manager, about nine years late. It’s taken me since then to see if I can figure out what happened. Nope. It’s not that I’m new to case management and slow on the pickup, it’s that it was so, well, limp. Back in mid-1991 I was in a rear-ender that…
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New Year, New Website
Since I have at last completed my second novel and submitted it to publisher and agent for consideration, I thought it was time to update my website. Besides which, the style the 2009 version was based on was no longer supported by its creator. I like the new style or theme that the new website…
Imagining “Lifeliner: The EBook” on the Apple iPad
Back in the late 1990s when I was envisioning the different ways of publishing Lifeliner: The Judy Taylor Story, I had an idea for an electronic version. Back in the computer middle ages, the only way I could’ve does this was on a CD, a bit clunky as a medium I had to admit. But…
Seeing the Physiatrist: One More Step to an Answer. Maybe.
You often hear at the end of a standard news story on the umpteenth car collision of the week, “no life-threatening injuries.” Well, those “no life-threatening injuries” in me are causing me to still be seeking medical help 10 years later, partly because traumatic brain injury (TBI) health care is so fragmented, so little understood,…
Ten Years. How It All Began.
I find it difficult to believe that it’s exactly ten years (18:30 15 Jan 2000 to 18:30 15 Jan 2010) since I was injured in a multiple car crash on Highway 7 in Woodbridge, an injury I thought at the time was like the one I sustained in another car crash back on 10 June…
Distraction, Ubuntu Distraction, on the Menu Today
Distraction is a great way to cope with adversity, especially on those days when one’s mood sinks into the Mariana Trench, pain, physical or emotional, becomes too great, and psychic energy couldn’t be lower. For those really low-energy days, television is the best bet. All you have to is sit there, watch the program, and…
Nine Years, Eleven Months, Twenty-Eight Days
M.V.A. January 15, 2000 is how every letter from my lawyers is referenced. M.V.A.: Motor Vehicle Accident. It was no accident. Any effing idiot who tailgates on Highway 7, a road with near-highway speeds, steep hills, and stoplights at the nadir — and what dumbass road engineer thought traffic lights at the bottom of a…
The Three-Month Type 2 Diabetes Followup
Back in September I wrote about my Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis and my early impressions with The GI Diet, and then I forgot all about reading the diet book every week and went on to more fun things like writing my novel and blogging about NaNoWriMo. But today I met with my GP to go…
My NaNoWriMo Novel “She” is Done!
It’s starting to sink in that I’ve finished, actually finished, the novel I’ve been thinking about for years, the one I started to outline back in the summer, and entered NaNoWriMo to write. I wrote it in one month, November. I hardly took a breath before I went into obsessive mode and revised it like…