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It looks like I have Aphasia…
What a miserable day today has been. First, I had my quarterly doctor‘s appointment with Dr. Kugler over in Hagerstown, MD, and brought up, as I have just about every time I have been to see him in the...
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Car in the shop; First Aphasia test today…
I’m sitting over at my daughter Penny’s house where my wife dropped me after I left my car at Brown’s Car Repair to find out why it is overheating. Very shortly we have to leave to go and get the first...
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Back in the light booth at Full Circle Theater…
…as Thurber Carnival rehearses tonite. As for me, I’m working out where the light cues will go and which instruments will focus where on the stage (although they keep changing where they are playing...
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A Quote for the other diabetics like me out there…
I was looking for information relating to the severe nausea I get from using Byetta, a drug prescribed for diabetics to help keep blood sugar down by making you not hungry, when I came across this...
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Marking time before rehearsal…
I’m up in the light booth testing the area lights for Thurber Carnival. Everything is rough, but it’s all working pretty well. We’ll see how well in tonite’s run through. The countdown to opening...
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I had an E.E.G. this morning…
An Electro EncepheloGram (EEG) requires you to have a bunch of electrical contacts put around your head while you lie down in the dark and, well, go to sleep. As such, it’s the most painless and most...
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6:30 AM and I Woke Up in the Middle of a Nightmare…
It was one of those dreams that is too real and that I had trouble shaking off when I woke up. I was getting ready to go to my appointment with Dr. Kahn (which I actually do have this morning at 9:00)...
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I’m not as happy today as I’d like to be…
I spent the morning going to two of my more common doctors, my GP and my Endocrinologist, over a brief episode that I had Sunday in the early morning. I don’t remember any of the episode, but my wife...
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Getting ready for an eight hour EEG…
The neurologist has scheduled me to come in Sunday morning to take the 8-hour EEG to see if they can find out if there is anything unexpected that caused my seizure last week. I’ve felt like another...
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OK, I’m back.
Sorry about yesterday. I was so down with flu and fever that I went on a NyQuil sleep-a-thon and didn’t get to the blog. But, coughing and sneezing, I’m back today and just starting to go through...
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The Summer Cold…
Since yesterday afternoon I have been running around with the symptoms of a summer cold. I got very little sleep last night, waking up every hour or so to a fit of sneezing and a choking cough. Last...
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Ironic Marketing Humor
From The Week: 56 spoonfuls of sugar - how healthy! A KFC franchise in Utah is asking customers to help fight diabetes — by purchasing an 800-calorie Mega Jug of sugary soda to wash down their meals....
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I’ll be signing off for the next 15 hours or so…
… to go in for a sleep exam. As I understand it, they stick a bunch of wires to my head at nine o’clock tonight and watch me while I sleep… Then wake me up at 6 AM and take the wires off and send me on...
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First night in the new house…
No TV… Comcast hasn’t shown up yet. Dogs are going crazy…they have a long way to go getting used to a new existence. Unopened boxes, big black plastic bags stuffed with clothes, misplaced furniture...
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Starting the third week of moving and we’re still not done…
So help me, moving again is going to take more will than I think I have. We’re still hauling boxes and artwork and clothes and other stuff from 322 Starkey’s to the new house and it is an ongoing...
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A personal note – I’m living in considerable fear…
Yesterday I had another seizure like the dozen or so I’ve had in the past three years. As I mentioned at the time of the accident 4 weeks ago that left me with broken ribs and shoulder blade and...
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OK… next step.They are going to get me ready for surgery.
Hope this doesn’t take long…. I don’t really want to be knocked out for a long time. It’s my right brain that this tumor is on and I hope when they take it out I’ll still have mind enough to do this...
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