I probably have a post with this title already, and cannot begin to care.

I hate the spring.

Once upon a time, I hated it, because it was when I couldn't breathe.

But I left the south, the area of the hideous pine trees, and its promiscuous pollen spewing everywhere and I just itch thinking about it.  So that's not my issue - not for April, at any ( Read more... )

As I've detailed in many posts here on livejournal, I've had a chronic pain problem since August 2010, and frankly, it's only gotten worse over time.  What once was centered in my neck with facial pain (and migraines) has become neuropathy (plus some extra pains) in my arms and legs.

It comes and goes in waves, in amounts, and it's the situation ( Read more... )

Last Monday (Aug 28), I got Botox all over my head, neck and shoulders... I got shots .. more shots than I had expected.

The thing is, I've long had facial pain/migraines, and they've only gotten worse, especially this summer.  If you've ever read Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron", you may remember that the main point-of-view ( Read more... )

It's been 13 years now, of chronic pain, though the pain has changed in nature over time, and I didn't know what it was when it first happened. That first week, I thought it was an allergic attack and then possibly trigeminal neuralgia (and for all I know it is trigeminal neuralgia ( Read more... )

First, I will note that Livejournal keeps trying to get me to use the "new" editor... I have no idea how many years it has existed at this point. But I refuse to use it ( Read more... )

There is pretty much a saint for every day of the year, and that's not unusual.

But today's saint, Andre Bessette, has a connection to my parish church. He had a particular devotion to St. Joseph, and our parish is St. Joseph. The other thing is he got the St. Joseph Oratory in Montreal built, and we had a new building put up fairly recently (as ( Read more... )

I've written about this before, and I'm writing w/o looking at the prior post(s ( Read more... )

I mean, not because I hate whatever they're celebrating, but it's because this is generally when my body falls apart. Because I can usually keep things together for work and then .... boom, it goes ( Read more... )

It's a thought I had, reading an intro to a book I bought today ( Read more... )

(I know, I know ( Read more... )