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…
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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…
A Friend’s “Accident” Brings it All Back
I got the news yesterday, oh boy. My friend got banged up in her car. Stopped at a red light. Teen boy, a typical teen boy I bet, the kind who knows everything and is immortal, texting and driving. Right into her. Shoved her car into the one in front. Car totalled. Her neck and…
A Hypothalamus Fix: Followup
It’s been about three months since I began what I’ve dubbed a hypothalamus fix. Basically, since no medical professional understood the problem, I decided to figure it out myself and “fix” the brain-injury induced problems of high body temperature, edema (water retention), diabetes, fast heart rate, varying blood pressure, skin irritations: basically an extreme version…
NaNoWriMo, Aban’s Accension, She is Done!
Phew! National Novel Writing Month — NaNoWriMo — is over! As I write this, many around the world are doing word sprints with some of the NaNo team to beat the deadline of writing 50,000 words in the month of November. Not me though! (Gloat) Last year, I finished my first novel She on the…
With Brain Injury, Problems Mean Derailment
It doesn’t take much to derail a person with a brain injury. There you are, trucking along, feeling pleased with how functional you are, how productive, how much better you feel, and your dishwasher breaks down and you’re a puddle on the floor. Well, not quite that bad this time. Coping, problem solving, decision making:…
A Hypothalamus Fix for Closed Head Injury?
As I wrote earlier, I had suffered from various metabolic issues that the medical community was either unable or unwilling to understand and to treat. Over the years, I sought understanding, using what I remembered of my pre-injury knowledge of physiology, neurophysiology, and research skills. As I got better cognitively, especially this past year with…
My Top Ten iPad Apps
It’s been awhile since I last blogged on the iPad – I’m having too much fun with it. It’s become indispensable, my second second brain. After several months of use, these have become my Top Ten iPad Apps. 10. Flipboard. Everybody’s flipped out over Flipboard. I find it the easiest way to read Facebook updates;…
The Hidden Secret of Brain Injury: Hypothalamus Dysfunction
“I’m going to get off the atenolol,” I told my GP, who promptly laughed at me. Well, I might, just might, have the last laugh. I was put on atenolol (a beta blocker) 7 years after I suffered from a closed head injury and began 7 years of 120+ heart rate, of yo-yoing blood pressure,…