On sleeping despite all this
This is a brain-dump from a recent social-media post. Since the same question was asked 3 times in one day on my groups, I figured… Read More »On sleeping despite all this
This is a brain-dump from a recent social-media post. Since the same question was asked 3 times in one day on my groups, I figured… Read More »On sleeping despite all this
Quite a few people I know are going into blogging. Most of them are CRPSers, all of them are clever and interesting, and I think… Read More »Isy’s principles of blogging 101
As many physicians have noted, treating chronic pain is peculiarly frustrating. Therefore, treating a pain condition as subtle, complex and intransigent as CRPS must be… Read More »Rock stars
In 1986, the course of neurologic treatment changed forever when Mark Block, one severely spine-injured young man, chose “imp-possible” over “impossible” and, every day, spent… Read More »Imaginative experience and rebuilding the brain
As my digestion has gotten more frail, I’ve had more and more trouble with my Brain Food shake. I went to a powder, because organic… Read More »Recipe: Even Brain Food Shakes evolve
Sooner or later, it all comes back to breathing. Without adequate breath, obviously, nothing else matters. As a sometime ER nurse and continuing asthmatic, I’m… Read More »Breathing
Yesterday I did 10 minutes on the treadmill. Today, I walked almost a full mile of this hill in 18 minutes and 16 seconds —… Read More »Unexpected adventures with the rent
For the past forty-mumble years, and for some time to come, my experience of life is shaped by the particular body I’m in. The reciprocal… Read More »Posture matters, across species
I’m sitting in the lab’s waiting room, recovering from the most recent vampire attack. It’s always a bit of a circus. As I said to… Read More »Waiting
I’m filling out paperwork for these assessments. It’s a lot of homework, especially since they didn’t provide anything I could edit in softcopy. (Wait… how… Read More »Pain rating scales that describe reality