I wore a watch since my 8th birthday until a few years after my brain injury when my skin and tolerance to skin irritation made me take it off. I figured I’d use TTC clocks (OK, hard to see after they upgraded to those screens), city clocks (where are they‽), or my Palm, later my…
Category: Personal
2023 – 23 Years Since Y2K’s Car Crash-Caused Brain Injury
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…
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…
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…
First Cake Bake in Years
Brain Injury, Easier Than The News
I was watching my favourite weather forecaster awhile ago and was slow to turn off the TV after it. Ever since the complete cock-up media did of the Ontario election, focusing on polls instead of literal life-and-death policies (which, of course they’ve now noticed, too late to avoid Ford fucking our democracy so he can…