“Improvement is not meant to be relentless.” Yes it is. “It’s OK to have a setback.” Wise and common sense words from my GP (family doc), but oh do I ever wish improvement was relentless, a never-ending path upwards to perfect health. January is a tough month, not only emotion wise with its reminder of…
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Lifeliner: Chapter 15 Podcast, Supply Run
The hospital pharmacy provides Judy with only 2 weeks worth of food at a time. So twice a month, Judy bakes cookies, Cliff hitches up his homemade trailer, and they drive down to the city, down the Parkway, down to Toronto General Hospital to pick up her solutions and vitamins, her cold stuff and room…
Lifeliner: Chapter 14 Podcast, A Different Kind of Dinnertime
Judy mayn’t be able to eat, but she lives to cook. Having at last returned home from spending 10 months in the hospital, she eagerly resumes her purpose: to nurture and care for her family, especially at dinnertime. And Sunday dinners are the most special of them all. Chapter Fourteen: A Different Kind of Dinnertime
The PayPal Donation Button: The Why
Update: I’m now on Patreon! Click I’m Reading It! on my home page and support the arts for as low as $1!! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I can up my income so that I can afford to edit, proofread, and publish my two novels. Of the three, editing is the most…
Music: What Does the “New” Me Like?
I have spent the best part of two days sorting out the chaotic mess of my music collection. A “new” refurbished laptop sparked this heroic endeavour. The reason it wasn’t that well organized: most of it I ripped before Y2K, when computers were slow and file names had relatively recently broken the 8-character limitation. Although…
Eleven Years Ago, Four Drivers
It’s that time of year again, except today’s anniversary has a special twist: it’s the exact same day as the day two drivers hit the car I was a passenger in and shoved us into the car of a third driver. It’s the exact same day I sustained a closed head injury. It’s like reliving…
Problems in Perceiving Leads to Death and Destruction on our Streets
Perception. “1 a the faculty of perceiving.” Canadian Oxford Dictionary Perceive “1 apprehend, esp. through the sight; observe. 2 apprehend with the mind; understand. 3 regard mentally in a specified manner.” Canadian Oxford Dictionary Perception has been in the news this week, although many mayn’t have seen it that way. In Arizona, a man shot…
A Hypothalamus Fix: Second Followup
Time for a second hypothalamus fix followup. My goal with devising my hypothalamus fix was to reduce body temperature and water retention; improve sleep and skin health; and get rid of the atenolol. Initial unexpected results included eliminating brain injury anger, reducing irritation significantly, stabilizing mood, and improving exercise tolerance. I began using my therapy…
A Reading Milestone, A Memory Milestone
Reading Agatha Christie’s Poirot. Page 84 of Murder in Mesopotamia. Reading it for umpteenth time. Not one of my favourites; I always have a sense of knowing it without remembering anything past the point of where I’m at in the book. Needless to say, I never solve the mystery (haven’t of any book, familiar or…