An Accident Waiting to Happen, aka The Dangerous Treadmill Throws Me for a Loop
2009 was a rotten year for me, and brutish Mike Tyson as well. That was the year I had my stroke. That was also the year Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter,...
The Cane: It’s Not Just an Aid for Walking
My cane is a lifeline. Yet, it’s humbling at times. I still often think of my cane as a third leg—cane, right leg, left leg, cane, right leg, left leg....
Wishes and Hopes: Do They Amount to a Hill of Beans?
It was a famous line in the film Casablanca that gave "hill of beans" its notoriety. Humphrey Bogart says to Ingrid Bergman, who's married to another man, “Ilsa, I’m no...
Hey! Can Fast Foods in Abundance Really Cause a Stroke? No Kidding!
Here's news from across the pond. For all my foreign readers, "across the pond" is a standing idiom, or expression, between the United States and Great Britain. We laugh harder...
Up Close and Personal, aka Babies and Strokes, Part 2
I didn't plan to write what came into my lap. Then I had to tell the story. Stay with me on this.The subjects in this post are two same-sex individuals...
Stem Cells, Embryonic and Otherwise: The Big Maybe Not
I'm not taking sides. I'm just reporting the facts.Right about at the midway point 2 years ago, 5 English stroke patients were given, in what has been termed a revolutionary...
Nothing Says It Like the Norovirus, aka I Hurt So Much, I Wanna Die
In 1968, in the tiny town of Norwalk, Ohio, 85 times smaller than Philadelphia, midway between Cleveland and Toledo, acute gastroenteritis victimized the Bronson Elementary School, so much so that...
Mitt Romney, A Stroke Patient, and Facebook, aka The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Not Necessarily in That Order)
"What's this mean?" I asked my friend. "I don't get it." It was a cartoon.First frame: One dog asks another dog, "Do you think Romney will win the election?"Second frame:...