DVTs: One Good Leg To Stand On

"Surgery is past and medication is finished. The only things to preventing blood circulating blockage now is exercise and compression stockings. Or, once a clot comes (typically, at one leg), slowly help move the blood along and treat for pain and pray no strokes or lung clots." I texted this to somebody whose mom is … Continue reading DVTs: One Good Leg To Stand On →

Let’s double the Ambien

Small eyes heavy with eyelash mascara, dark pencil lines under, opening over-tired/not sleeping/how can I sleep when he's calling my name every hour, he forgets so easily. Tonight, before turning off the room's common light and going to bed she will try reading in the other room after giving him the hypnotic rather than reading … Continue reading Let’s double the Ambien →

Condition Changes: Dying or Merely Dumpster Diving

An exotic behavior change occurred one day to someone my wife knew when still in college at UC-Santa Barbara. A friend had what was then known as Pick's Disease, but no one knew it yet. Now called frontotemporal dementia, one of the brain deterioration's early signs are personality changes. Her friend was a nurse so … Continue reading Condition Changes: Dying or Merely Dumpster Diving →