Intestinal Fortitude: a dirty story
Back by popular demand … My crappiest Christmas ever — a comedy. Caveat emptor: This is not something to read before dinner, unless you’re as… Read More »Intestinal Fortitude: a dirty story
Back by popular demand … My crappiest Christmas ever — a comedy. Caveat emptor: This is not something to read before dinner, unless you’re as… Read More »Intestinal Fortitude: a dirty story
This came out of cold chronic CRPS type 1, a debilitating condition of intractable chronic pain, nervous system disruption, and multi-system dysregulation — destroying the… Read More »Pain Manifesto
Mortality is tricky. We’re all going to go sometime, but we are hardwired to avoid the very thought of death. And so we should be.… Read More »Considering the end: a new beginning
Here is a link to an article I once would have found moving and relevant to my nursing practice: Courage and Compassion The central idea… Read More »Beyond courage & compassion
I thought being able to live would ease my system. Unfortunately, my hands and feet are freaking out and going suddenly, rapidly downhill on pretty… Read More »A bad day
I was overmedicated on mixed psychoactives (in plain English, my doctors had me on too many pills for CRPS) and, at the beginning of February,… Read More »Out of the foggy night: Overmedication and abandonment issues
My hands and feet have been getting very swollen. My hands puff up on the phone or computer especially; with a bit of training, I… Read More »Radiation and sudomotor silliness
Executive decisions are made in the forebrain. The information that goes into them comes from the sensory cortex (nearby) and the hypothalamus (back in the… Read More »Dopamine, poverty, and pain: the lighter side
My teeth were crumbling. I thought that was churlish of them, especially since I was moving at the time and had quite enough going on.… Read More »Chalk boored: cortisol and dentition
The lawyers have finally agreed that it’s time to put this turkey of a Worker’s Comp case to bed. My lawyer said that, for one… Read More »Expected vs. Actual: planning for WC settlement