Caved Too Soon
Story of my life. If it isn’t doctors giving me attitude and inconvenience, it’s my own body playing me false. You know how your car will make the most horrendous racket, and yank the wheel out of your hands unexpectedly, until the minute you take it to the mechanic, and then it purrs like a kitten […]
Tags: doctors, Family Life, medical issues, pain, True Stories
Capitulation
I’m caving in. My wrist hurts so bad that it’s starting to interfere with my life — I have a high tolerance for pain, but now even Aleve isn’t really working. And it kept waking me up last night. Every time it slid out from under the cold pack. So I am going to an Orthopedist […]
Tags: Family Life, karate, medical issues, pain, True Stories
Me and My Doctors
Okay, so … I posted yesterday that having to go to a doctor about my left wrist is the one factor that outweighs all others in determining whether I actually seek treatment or not. And maybe that sounds silly. I can understand that. Our society thinks highly of doctors, and seeks their counsel for practically […]
Tags: challenges, doctors, medical issues, pain, True Stories
My Left Wrist Hurts
I think I have finally figured out what is wrong with my left wrist. I mentioned in a couple of previous posts that I have a long-standing injury that periodically flares up and gives me merry hell for a few days or weeks, and then subsides. I thought it was a sprain from a fall I […]
Tags: accident, challenges, Family Life, injuries, injury, karate, pain, True Stories
I Wrote a Sonnet!
That’s awesome, because I haven’t been able to write poetry since my marriage began to disintegrate in 1997. I have been waiting, sometimes impatiently, for the ability to return. Sometimes I was afraid it never would. Occasionally a phrase or two would come … but I could never get the fragments to gel into a […]
Tags: divorce, honesty, pain, poem, poetry, sonnet, True Stories
The Stupid Talent Strikes Again
Back in December, I wrote about my talent of getting injured in the most ridiculous ways — while engaged in perfectly innocuous, normally safe activities. Well, the stupid talent has struck again: I fell last night and hurt my left hand badly. I had come home from eating dinner at Las Tortugas Deli Mexicana, and […]
Tags: challenges, Family Life, humour, pain, True Stories
Cross-Bearing
I’ve been thinking a lot about crosses lately. I daresay that sounds a strange topic of thought — it’s C.S. Lewis’s fault. Between Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, I’m getting a lot of input about what Jesus meant when He said that each of His followers must “deny himself, take up his cross daily, […]
Tags: challenges, character, Christianity, faith, fear, grace, Jesus, karate, pain, parenting, Philosophy, Religion, True Stories
Human Amphibians and the Law of Undulation
I had actually intended to post about just the Law of Undulation today, as I have been listening to C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters over the last few days, and his concepts of the Law of Undulation and of humankind as a hybrid, amphibian creature subject to that law have been occupying my thoughts greatly. But […]
Tags: challenges, Christianity, CS Lewis, faith, fear, grace, Narnia, pain, Philosophy, Religion, scars, Screwtape
More Weirdness
I’m getting ready to close down my old blog, because I like having my own site, where people can find me without having to pay. If you want to pay, I’m not going to object, and you can just Paypal me (LOL), but I’m tired of the limited readership on the old blog and see […]
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Death and Suicide
This past week has been a very hard one. About ten days ago, my office was rocked by the shocking news that a former coworker had taken his own life. And on the day when I found out when my coworker’s memorial service would be, I was told that a very dear friend had died […]
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