There will come a day when we will look back at this time, and shudder, for all sorts of reasons; the political incompetence and dishonesty, the sheer number of tragic deaths, the challenges to returning to something like normal life, whatever that means. One of the things that […]
I felt so bad for my patient, the poor man was sweating buckets, his skin clammy and pale, his grip on my hand crushing. As I watched Sister and Doctor Swift prepare the skin for the needle for the bedside liver biopsy, I could feel myself swaying. I […]
Lockdown, self-isolation, panic-buying, infection, case mortality rates, misinformation, media contradicting itself.. The world has been well and truly shafted by the Chinese Communist Party’s total incompetence, lies, denialism, and monumental mishandling of the worst global health crisis in a generation. Europe has been brought to its knees, the […]
The worrying news coming out of China, and specifically out of Wuhan province, has been downplayed, even with the news that the first recorded human-to-human infection in Europe took place in Germany, and the first Beijing resident succumbed to the virus. The speed with which this infection has […]
CO2 is Plant Food, & The Industrial Revolution produced so much carbon, that the planet became greener than it had ever been. Regarding the witless use of the term “climate change,” it’s obvious to all but the most dim-witted, that the climate changes within known parameters, it has […]
There is and has always has been a big “bugaboo” about chemotherapy, with reason. It’s origins started by using left over mustard gas from the First World War to treat cancer cells in the blood. Prior to this the only method was radiation to treat solid tumors. By […]
To those of you who may not know I was diagnosed this past April with “Classic Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.” In the world of cancer, a relatively easy one to beat. In the process of staging it, the Doctor’s discovered through a “PET Scan” that I also have 3rd stage […]
When last I wrote, I laid out my condition(s), the treatments I would be undergoing, and my concerns regarding them. As of today I have now received eight radiation and two chemotherapy treatments. Prior to this I made a point of speaking with others who had been through […]
I feel I owe all of you who’ve been kind enough to read my column for the last year and a half both an apology and an explanation. Since February I’ve been dealing with some health issues. What started out as severe edema (swelling of the legs and […]
“You, who are on the road, must have a code, that you can live by, And so, become yourselves, Because the past is such a good-bye… Don’t you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry, So just look at them and sigh, And know […]
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