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Be The Yogurt
The other day I had some yogurt that was low-fat, super thick, and contained only natural flavors. Someone else had picked it up and left it in our fridge and I thought "I like yogurt" so I thought I would give this a try, that at the worst it was still yogurt ( Read more... ) -
Inordinately Proud
At 3 AM I woke up suddenly and violently, shaking the bed with my movement and waking up Laura.
Laura: "Are you okay?!"
Me: "Yeah, why?"
Laura: "You woke up with a big jerk!"
Me: "Nah. You're pretty awesome."
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My Super Power
Let's start with my big walk, the trip from Seattle, WA down into CA, back up into OR where I eventually settled down for a while and got a decent job to help me get a bit more on my feet while living in a tent. As anyone who knows this story knows: I was supposed to die on that trip. It was a passive suicide but I was supposed to die. Exposure, ( Read more... ) -
I'm Okay
Writing is how I process things that happen to me. Sharing them on Livejournal or any social media is sort of the same thing; I get feedback and see things in different ways. It's a good trade-off even though I often feel a bit attention-whorish. Okay, a lot. I like writing for an audience and getting responses. What can I say ( Read more... ) -
Decades In Days
My steps are shuffling and unsure on my way from the living room couch and into the kitchen. Weaving around a chair takes thought and extra physical effort. Maybe enough that sitting in that chair for a moment or two is a good idea. Yeah, sitting down here, barely 20 feet from where I started walking? That's a good idea; the dizziness and weakness ( Read more... ) -
I'm Home, I'm Okay, I'm a Little Bit Broken
I'm home from my second surgery this month and I'm probably better, done with hospitals, brain surgery, and lumbar taps. I'm healing. I'm getting better. I can see that ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes I Have Trouble Coming Up With Titles
My attention span is crap lately. Everything I write is crap. I feel like crap. Crap, crap, crap. I should have titled this "Craptastic, the Musical ( Read more... ) -
Brain Surgery
I'm having brain surgery on October 7th at 9 AM.
That sentence was kind of a punch in the gut the first time I wrote it. Right up until that moment I was very nonchalant about the whole thing. "Yeah, it's brain surgery but it's easy brain surgery. No worries!" And really that's still true. As far as brain surgeries go the removal of my arachnoid ( Read more... ) -
Here's What's Going On: Medical Update
This is all going to sound very dramatic and I don't mean it to but I don't really know how to word it in such a way as to make it unscary. Sorry.
Monday I have an EEG. Wednesday I have an appointment with a neurosurgeon.
I have a cerebellar arachnoid cyst. I spotted it in my MRI before I was told by the doctors that I had one. What I'm about to ( Read more... )
