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(warning, possibly graphic images are posted here) I realize that some of you are going to gripe at me about this–lecture me about how I should have done this differently, and you mostly certainly wouldn’t be wrong. But before anyone tells me that I should have made better choices, I do need you to understand: […]
You know how we take our cars into the mechanic and we get an oil change, fluid check and top off, and a fluid flush and refill? Well, apparently, the other day, I had to do this, but I had to do it for my body. I was admitted to the hospital on Thursday, and […]
When I first learned I had congestive heart failure, my mind was a jumble. I couldn’t think. I couldn’t make sense of anything. To me, the words ‘heart failure’ sound pretty serious. You only have one heart. I’m a fan of Grey’s Anatomy, the television show, one of the very few I watch, and there […]
So I did something last night that felt pretty good. It was one of those things where you sit at the computer screen, compose a message, and then let your finger hover over the send button for minutes, perhaps hours, reading, re-reading, debating, editing, changing, second-guessing, and then… finally, you decide: What the hell…. and […]
The other day, I was washing the coffee pot in the kitchen. The top of the lid was white and it was stained a bit, so I took it off, turned it sideways, and was going to put it inside the carafe so I could fill lit with bleach and let it soak. I’ve done […]
A few months ago, I ventured into the forums on a Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) website. My first foray into the support group there brought me to a thread about a woman with severe and advanced PAH. She was on an IV pump, and the medication that’s used in that pump has a half life […]
I came to you today to ask you for help. I have been very sick since I was hospitalized last year. Once all the critical, acute things were dealt with, my pulmonologist believed with all his heart that I had a sleep disorder of some sort. He sent me to a sleep lab in January […]
There was an episode of HOUSE a while back in which he makes some comment about how pain makes you make bad choices and that fear of pain was worse than that. I nodded my head knowingly at the time, but I’m really beginning to understand this more than I would like. Pain doesn’t really […]
My primary pulmonologist is a sleep disorder specialist. He thinks I have a sleep disorder. This is sort of akin, to me, to my cardiologist thinking I have a heart. Or in other words, when all you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail. It’s not that I’m disagreeing with him […]
The odds of winning the last mega-millions big lottery that was all over the news were something like 1 in 176 million chances of winning. That’s pretty long odds, right there. Yet, ever hopeful, people buy tickets to the lottery every day. Why? Because human beings seem to like playing the odds. One of the […]
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