so my aunt took a road trip to houston to meet the guru. the long and the short of it, he promised that he could cure her without surgery. this of course feeds into her baseline desire of not wanting surgery in general ( Read more... )

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Mom has another round of imaging and perhaps a biopsy today. Really, this is a stalling action for the definitive action: surgery. This was the best compromise that I and her surgeons could come up with to bring her back to the table ( Read more... )

We spend our lives scheming, organizing and seeking order. Great amounts of energy are spent on these pursuits, some knowing that the efforts are moot ( Read more... )

my mom loves to leave me tidbits of information that she thinks i need.  most of the time it's about some medical "breakthrough" or factoid.  also, she's ever vigilant about good deals and wants me to take advantage.  for me, though, it's often old news as i keep up with current events with my rss reader and frequent bargain and news sites online, ( Read more... )

• get motorcycle to shop for post-crash analysis and carburetor redo--no check
• try to get lawnmower fixed--check
• eat some tasty barbecue--check
• sign death certificate--check
• get stuff for car maintenance--check

I knew the '007 would be different but I never realized by how much.  My mom finally had the surgery that I've spent the last six weeks convincing her to get.  Her girly parts are now back in order.  That's not what this story is about, though it would make for an interesting entry.  No, she has made giant leaps in other ways.  A new era has dawned ( Read more... )

As with almost every Christmas since the dawn of my medical career, I worked.  Being on call Christmas day, I bear witness to real tragedy.  It was Stroke-o-Rama this time around.  One after another came and some in the most traumatic ways.  This one poor grandma was opening presents with the grand kids when she keeled over.  She couldn't move half ( Read more... )

I spent the entire day doing nothing but sitting in bed, watching TV, reading digg articles, and only getting up to stuff my face with pizza and cobbler.  I felt delighted and bored senseless at the same time.  I didn't even go out last night and instead fell asleep haphazardly with mail and other detritus strewn around me ( Read more... )

I never thought I'd be out-technologied by my mom, especially on Black Friday. She got a component style DVD re-writer and a 100pack of DVD/CD-R's for under $70. And if you know anything about my mom, she knows nothing about technology, but loves a good bargain. I can already here the, "How does this work?" and "Can you show/write that down for ( Read more... )