Every morning, I drink 20 ounces of water with some good stuff thrown in (it's essentially vitamin water). Sodium is probably the most valuable electrolyte to me at this time, but I think mostly the benefit is getting the fluid onboard first thing. After a cup of coffee,
The word tachycardia means "fast heart rate." The prefix comes from the Greek word tachys, which, again, means "fast" or "accelerated." (I just now had a memory of reading that word while working at a hospital when I was 18 and looking up the
I've mentioned in several places about struggling with anger. Pain and fear can add up quickly, although I may have found a workaround. The other day I wrote a long essay about long Covid and chronic illness and posted it on Facebook. Almost immediately, I calmed down. I
I show someone a picture of a flower on my phone. They ooh and aah, and then, “Is that a real flower?” they ask. “No,” I say. “It’s a photograph.” Snort. "Come on. I mean, is it AI, or is it real?" And my brain locks up,
The above is an ad I made for my 50th high school reunion, a little urge to attend. I've never been to one of these, nor had much interest, and truthfully since the era of social media began I never saw the point. But I may have missed
We don't use "care" as a noun much anymore. It's still around (e.g., I don't have a care in the world), but we've generally replaced it with "concerns" and the like. It's a little old-
Last night we watched French Kiss (1995) in the backyard. I don't know why I had a copy, although I remember seeing it. This has become a thing here in Arizona, backyard movies, and it's all my doing. I looked around this nice large, wide yard
I spend a lot of time searching for analogies. It's what I do, I guess. Recently, I tried to make an analogy between someone getting out of prison after 3-1/2 years and my health situation. It's not a great analogy, granted. This hasn'
I'm currently in northwest Phoenix, staying with an old high school friend who had an empty guest room and a big heart. In a good but complex way, she was able to arrange for me to have some very inexpensive hyperbaric oxygen therapy close to her home. Hyperbaric
I know I don’t update this the way I thought, so I appreciate those of you hanging in there with me. This is from a newspaper column I wrote in 2002, although I’ve updated some. I wish you all a Merry Christmas, right this very minute, and here’
As of this morning, when I happened to notice, I have a FICO credit score of 826 out of 850. If you’re into credit porn, that’s good. This reflects nothing other than a desire to remain out of debt in these senior citizen years as much as possible,
Some days I feel like someone thumbing through one of those suspect books on TV, in the police station. I’m looking for explanations, although really? I’m just trying to find easier ways to explain my life to the rest of my world. I flip through the pages until