Helpful Things TO Say To Someone in Chronic Pain
Reblogged from Oh What a Pain in the...: Supporting someone in chronic pain can be difficult. There is nothing that can be done to ease someone’s pain and sometimes, it leaves friends and family at a...
View ArticleHelpful Things TO Say To Someone in Chronic Pain
Reblogged from Oh What a Pain in the...: Supporting someone in chronic pain can be difficult. There is nothing that can be done to ease someone’s pain and sometimes, it leaves friends and family at a...
View ArticleMeritus Hospital in Hagerstown, MD: The Worst ER I Have Ever Visited
I try, when I can, to make the hour drive to Johns Hopkins Hospital when I think I’m having a medical emergency. However, on October 12th, I thought I might be having a heart event of some sort, and...
View ArticleContemplation and Dedication
Today will be a year and a day since my ordeal. It has been a very difficult, draining, painful year. I have suffered so many different kinds of loss that I don’t know if I can cleanly separate one...
View ArticleFat people and feeding tubes.
Del:The following is an incredibly well executed essay on how doctors, naturopath, and Internet hoo-has completely misunderstand the role of weight, obesity, and nourishment in fat patients. Long time...
View ArticleHow to Talk About Pain – NYTimes.com
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/opinion/sunday/how-to-talk-about-pain.html?_r=0&referrer= This is a wonderful article about how we lack the kind of language we have for love, jealousy, and...
View ArticleDifficult Choices
Recently, I feel like my life is like a very specific staple scenario from low-budget horror flicks. The Victim is running away from The Monster. Victim surveils the options; hide in that closet, climb...
View ArticleShe Has Taken Half My Heart
She Has Taken Half My Heart She didn’t want my Work I am already doing it, and doing more of it, and doing less of other things. Dedication, in this case, means spending your time seeped in Passion,...
View ArticleA No Good, Very Bad Day
Today was pretty much that – just a no good, very bad day. I had my first appointment with Johns Hopkins Pain Management department. I don’t remember if I told this story to you yet, faithful readers,...
View ArticleYou’ve got to be kidney me!
Hey, I’m allowed a painful pun, as I am hopped up on the goofballs. What I mean by that is, I am currently in Johns Hopkins emergency department, waiting for a bed to open up so I can be admitted. This...
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