Regenerate the retina? Is that possible? I read a long time ago a paper that talked about using light to do that with rat eyeballs. And my own vision change didn’t happen just because of the brain injury. Vision is eyeballs + brain. How do you tease apart what increase in my vision is from…
Tag: Health
Knowledge Is Scary
A great teacher takes the arduous learning process, the scary knowledge they’re sharing with you, and makes it rewarding. Even actionable. What makes a teacher great? Way back when, students could run all sorts of experiments in their high school labs and witness firsthand explosive chemical reactions. My father told me about one of his…
Delicious Childhood Memory
I rarely eat anything from my childhood. But… Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood? As I pondered today’s Jetpack prompt question, one memory returned. My first bite of chocolate. My faithful readers will not be surprised. Heh. After all, chocolate whispers sweet, intense desires to open my wallet and spend…
My Tagline?
If humans had taglines, what would yours be? Getting to know me, would be my tagline, I think. For myself to get to know myself, and others who knew me before brain injury and those only after to know the real me. Brain injury changed me drastically. For the non-ostriches, the changes rocked them. As…
Remembering, Believing Compassion In Tough Times
What quality do you value most in a friend? The title is the quality I value most. Until my brain injury, I believed I had friends who’d be there in sickness not just health. Until the Y2K car crash, I didn’t think about how important it is to remember the person that was before sickness…
Life Before the Internet
Do you remember life before the internet? I do remember life before the internet, but I was an early adopter, so that was a loooong time ago. I used my father’s University of Toronto email account to email an American friend until torfree.net came on the scene. Then someone, I forget who, got in touch…
Broken A Bone, Broken A Brain
Have you ever broken a bone? Perhaps my broken bone foresighted my broken brain. Not the break itself but the response to it. A child. Springtime. Judo after school. Went up the belts rapidly. Orange belt. After school play with friends. Energetic. In dresses and tights. No thought of breaking anything in myself. But then,…
CO2 Monitors and Air Quality Sensors: The Alarming Truth They Reveal
The sky is blue; the trees lime green in their early leafing. The sun’s light punches the clear air. Knowledge from reading tells you the city air is cleaner than it’s ever been, that Ohio is the biggest source of pollution, that neighbouring states and Ontario have been fighting them to improve, and that they…
Climate Action in Toronto: Misdirecting Directions
What gives you direction in life? I follow opportunities. When they come, I assess but also go with my gut. For decades, I’ve been rowing towards full healing of my brain. I’ve given up, let my hands rest on the oars, then get going again. I’ve been sidelined or focused on things important to me…