Getting Goosed with Knowledge…

I think – without question, for far too long we’ve all ignored the impact geese have made on our lives. You’d be pretty hard pressed to find anyone  who doesn’t carry a picture… Continue reading

Falling Fevers and Climbing Frogs

I think we can all point to at least a few instances from our lives where we’ve learned some very valuable life lessons from frogs. Here is one you should add to the… Continue reading

Getting Seasick on Waves of Emotion

Well, it’s unanimous, all the judges, including the notoriously tough Russian judge have gone and given my Head very high marks for persistence. True, it did lose points on the dismount but overall… Continue reading

The Swollen Brain Diet

Sorry – very late post. Having a much tougher time with the IVIG this round, tougher even than the first time. Seems I’m one of the 7% who don’t tolerate it very well.… Continue reading

Dead… Suspicious

“A suspicious wife sat over her husband’s body for 14 days because she suspected he was faking his own death to get away from her. The woman, 72, told police in Vaslui, Romania,… Continue reading

Behold… My Grey Matter doth Engorge…

But not in a good way… Day 2 went less well than day 1. About 3/4’s into the procedure, I started getting extreme nausea, dizzy and feverish. So they paged my neurologist and… Continue reading

A Swollen Head…

Day one is in the books. Went in at 9AM – they were pumping me full of stuff for the first hour and a half, before the actual Immunoglobin was even out of… Continue reading

IVIG – Tool of the Spanish Inquisition?

Hi. So, ummm tomorrow – I start my 2nd session of the dreaded IVIG Transfusion. Yes, I’m nervous. Last time went somewhat less than ideally, and by that I mean slightly worse than… Continue reading

Making an Omelette out of Humpty Dumpty

There are certain stepping-stones one experiences during a typical lifetime. Places and times in which we learn or discover something that helps shape who we are and how we view the world. They… Continue reading

Hot & Stupid… a Winning Combo

So it’s late and only now have the flames begun to die down from the scorched earth that is everything I see outside my window. It’s never easy being forced to watch another… Continue reading