Battle for the Brain
It’s been a crazy winter, even for New England. Those of you with pain syndromes know what that means: changeful weather means unstable pain neurology… Read More »Battle for the Brain
It’s been a crazy winter, even for New England. Those of you with pain syndromes know what that means: changeful weather means unstable pain neurology… Read More »Battle for the Brain
Interesting week here. A dear friend is embroiled in one of those ghastly legal tangles where the vultures are rigged to win. I’m the key… Read More »Fixing the brakes
I’m an old ER nurse so please, trust me when I say that nobody gets a guarantee with this life. Nobody really knows what’s next,… Read More »Make room for joy, especially when it isn’t easy
In CRPS and dysautonomia, several parts of the brain get under- or over-enthusiastic (or both, unpredictably.) It’s easy to oversimplify, but even more confusing; each… Read More »Handling anxiety and its obnoxious little friends
The power went out last night. I’m used to it. I grew up in places where electric outages were common. We’d just get on with… Read More »When the electricity goes out.. I purr
After breaking my own heart just before the holidays, and then lots of traveling and the sheer delight of swimming in the ocean of love… Read More »Getting re-humanized by phenylalanine
I was holding off on blogging consistently until my brain was more consistently reliable — until I had enough improvement in my mental faculties. Reason… Read More »Living anyway
My desk setup is nonexistent and much of it still buried in unpacking. I wish I’d been writing some of the wonderful blog ideas that… Read More »To fail myself is to fail others, and doesn’t that suck!
This is another story improvised on the fly. One solution to boredom, when my studying-brain won’t work: I send it wandering, and it brings back… Read More »Story: Shasta suggests a dog
I say that a lot. The first thing our bodies do when we get a burst of pain or other shock is, clench. Hard to… Read More »First, keep breathing