Year: 2013

It's New Year's Eve, for cryin' out loud. It seems I'm all over the place, but wait a minute. I promise focus. David Letterman is a funny man. And "The...

In 2011, The Huffington Post reported this story: "A Black Friday shopper who collapsed while shopping at a Target store in West Virginia went almost unnoticed as customers continued to...

In June, 2001, when I started a new job at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, I was a Technical Trainer and Compliance Administrator, all by myself, for close to 15,000...

If I had to recall the most dominant memories of my parents, they are these: My mother who was overly plump always talked about the next meal, and my father...

"Are you asleep?"I whisper the words, but loud enough for him to hear it. I don't get a response--not a foot twitch, not a hand movement, not a face gesture....

"You can't be too skinny or too rich," said my old college buddy back in the 60s. But now you know the truth. Skinniness sometimes is related to anorexia or...

This post is a short one and I'm going to be shouting at you. I wrote my most recent post, "The Handicapped in America: The ADA Has Your Back" (http://stroketales.blogspot.com/2013_08_12_archive.html)...

My mother-in-law used to always have a lawsuit going on. But, alas, they were frivolous suits, mostly slips and falls in the market, on someone else's sidewalk, or falls in...

“The Tales of a Stroke Patient” is making its way into the limelight.I am a stroke survivor, and I’ve written a book that tells of my expedition. If a stroke...

I was playing a game with myself. I recalled a famous personality of the past to test my memory. The topic of the day was who died from blood clots...