Morning exercise, redux
Flashback Up until I got the injuries that precipitated CRPS, I used to run about 3.8 miles (about 6.1 km) up and down a redwood… Read More »Morning exercise, redux
Flashback Up until I got the injuries that precipitated CRPS, I used to run about 3.8 miles (about 6.1 km) up and down a redwood… Read More »Morning exercise, redux
This morning, I woke up feeling like a butcher knife was lodged in my heart, the memory of barking and snarling voices ringing in my… Read More »Angel wings & tactical things
This, right after “Keep breathing”, is one of my go-to pieces of mind management. It’s about so much more than consequences. Let’s take an example.… Read More »There’s always an afterwards
There I was, trying to steer the 3-headed rhinoceros that is the de-mold-the-mobile-home project (dubbed “DeStroy DeMold.”) Two of my volunteers had gotten sick with… Read More »Shore Break
Making a major decision, for someone with so little margin for error as a ragged, underfunded, spoony crip like me, means being able to answer… Read More »Decisions 2 – housing
WordPress has utterly changed their writing UI. Apparently, they felt the need to reinvent text entry… (um… Why???) I usually hold off on publishing a… Read More »Decisions, decisions, decisions (this is a triptych)
As I’ve said before, much of brain-retraining has to do with speaking to the primitive parts of the brain in ways it can’t ignore. Being… Read More »Mental toolkit for overwhelming times
This is one of several blog posts I drafted late last year and got distracted from. This isn’t the duckiest or most amusing one to… Read More »When I lose everything but me
After talking with patients, doctors, and loved ones — and, as a trained observer, carefully noticing the changes in posture, expression, and tone as I’ve… Read More »CRPS terminology, under the nervous grin
I’m now attending a weekly meeting of fellow pain patients in the area. It’s very good. A few things came up which I felt confident… Read More »A “bag of tricks” post: Care in Western NE, loads of info sources, and why long car trips hurt so much