Clunky title. Kind of like the dull, monstrous bang of a car thundering into another car, stopping dead. Today is the 23rd anniversary of that sound times three. Twenty-third. That’s an unreal number. It seems absurd that I’d still be suffering from a brain injury, that the number of my years as an adult with…
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2023 Arrives, Optimism Stays
These almost three years have witnessed increased death; a virus sprouting disability; people rallying to protect each other; then falling apart like pins and SARSCoV2 the bowling ball. On one side are the back-to-normal-yay folks. The ones unused to chronic illness — which this pandemic is on the population level — demanding this illness be…
Individual Climate Action
As an individual, climate action begins in the home. Some have no control over what they can do in their homes, but many of us do. I figured I was the former until my gas furnace began dying and a neighbour brought up the possibility of replacing it with a heat pump. Hmmm. Was that…
Adeline Kitty “Addi” Jeejeebhoy, 17 November 1932 to 29 November 2022
I don’t remember when I first met Addi Jeejeebhoy, but our last conversation is sewn into my heart. Technically my cousin, I always saw her as my Aunt. It was a Sunday when we last spoke. I’d finished my usual exercise and chores for the day and collapsed into my big chair. I called Addi on my new iPhone.
Self-Help Book Release Day on the Occasion of My Birthday!
Release Day is here! Combatting loneliness that accompanies brain injury is a silent battle but not impossible to conquer. Book Release Day is Wednesday, November 16, 2022!! This is the self-help book that people with brain injury have been dreaming of. And what better day to release the paperback version than on the occasion of…
Brain Injury, Trauma, and Grief: The Paperback Cometh!
Less than a week until the official release of the paperback of Brain Injury, Trauma, and Grief! It’s the self-help book for people with brain injury alone and suffering. “Welcome to the world of brain injury, an unimaginable world. A world you and I don’t want to be in. And definitely not alone in it!…
Hey Docs! Innovate Long COVID Care!!
qEEG and neurostimulation have improved the lives of people with brain injury. It’s time to study it for the treatment of people living with long COVID. While clinics and docs “innovate” medicine for Long COVID by bringing back 1980s’ methods for blood pressure instability*, I’ve been looking and asking around about 21st medicine. We’ve progressed…
Psychologists Have Rules For Client Care, Doctors Don’t When Illness Strikes
Why do health care providers not have automatically triggered plans to inform patients when they suddenly sicken or die? I wrote a piece for Psychology Today on this topic after my neurodoc had a personal medical emergency. I tried to find out what happened, what College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario mandates (hint: nothing)…
When The Universe Pushes, One Must Obey
I grew up around adults who cooked with propane or natural gas. When I moved into my own place, I couldn’t get rid of its electric stove quick enough and replace it with natural gas. Even though I heard of induction stoves when they came out — which intrigued me as a techie — I…