2023 has been challenging and I've been offline for most of it. Many reasons, but I wanted to post this status update both to remind you I'm still around and to show you an example of why I've found myself occupied in other areas than computing this year. I had to have a serious emergency surgery a few weeks ago. Here's a brief semi-synopsis.
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Some Quotes of Mine
Excerpt from the Pittsburgh Quarterly (1993) Excerpt from Street Poems (1991) Excerpt from Shadows Before The Maiming (1999) Excerpt from The Napalmed Soul (1999) Excerpt from Shadows Before The Maiming (1999) Excerpt from Cells (2004)
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An Asheville Vacation – Photos
Hi. We rarely get to take vacations and especially with my health disintegrating over the past year and a half especially, let alone the past four plus years, it's just very hard for me to travel. I mean physically painful. But we had a chance to take a few days and go somewhere and we …
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Good “Pain” Article: “25 ‘Scary’ Side Effects of Chronic Pain We Don’t Talk About”
I subscribe to a health e-zine some of you may know: The Mighty. It tends to focus on areas such as cancer, mental illness, disability, chronic pain, chronic conditions, rare diseases and many more topics. I have several primary categories I read it for. Today I found an article there that I really felt like …
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A Review of A New Earth
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle My rating: 3 of 5 stars Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth is an interesting New Age spiritual enlightenment book marrying eastern and western religious traditions and beliefs and focusing on a couple of core areas: the ego and pain. Tolle spends the first half …
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Letter to People Who Think Chronic Pain Isn’t That Bad | The Mighty
A letter to people who don't understand chronic pain and think it's "not that bad." Source: Letter to People Who Think Chronic Pain Isn’t That Bad | The Mighty This is a really good article. Not the best I've ever read, but really good. It does a good job at trying to explain the …
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CT Myleogram and Emergency Procedure
I’ve had a rough time of it lately, especially the past few days. A couple of weeks ago, I somehow injured my back. It locked up and I had incredible back pain to go along with my very severe head pain. I went to my orthopedist, had a lot of x-rays taken, was told I …
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Lumbar Puncture
Hi! I had my lumbar puncture/spinal tap yesterday. Sorry I didn't post, but I was bedfast for the entire day, per the hospital's instructions. It went ok, actually much better than the one I had done in 2011. They've improved the procedure, made it much faster, less painful. In fact, even though two surgery nurses …
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