The Tone of Winter’s Eve

For the first time in what feels like a month I feel unhindered by the feelings of lethargy, exhaustion, pain, and being brain fuzzy caused by my body’s battle with sickness.  The upside is that my abs are probably in great shape from all the coughing.  After getting the crud just before last flight and … Read more

A tiring tide

Stand in front of the elevator, thinking about the 8 hours of work you are trying to accomplish and all the things you are falling behind on, or should do, and how exhausted you are wanting only to take a nap, all the while realizing that this is irrational, “not really you,” and just a manifestation of the depression makes you all of a sudden just want the tide to break… Even if it’s just for a few hours.

More on bacterial resistance

I just read a passaged that describes how a human body can become the niche that will develop anti-bacterial resistants bacteria.  The book is Mountains beyond Mountains written by Tracy Kidder concerning the life and passion of Dr. Paul Farmer who set about to improve the Haitian condition using anthropology and modern medicine. I highly … Read more

Grandma’s back to being feisty.

I realized probably lost a few people when I jumped from my grandma dealing with death, to FISA and our civil liberties, so I wanted to catch you all up on my grandma. She’s quite alive and being as feisty as a grandma should be. She’s on dialysis on a regular schedule of Monday, Wednesday, … Read more

Cascading failures

Many of you asked what I was doing in urgent care and how urgent it was. I am fine, I just had yet another sinus infection and my Primary Care Physician is at GW University’s Medical Facility Associates (part of a Teaching Hospital) where getting a regular appointment is generally more then a week out. … Read more