Survival
“Life’s funny”. “Compared to what?”
The problem is we just don’t know.
What ‘selfish gene’ caused your angiomas
(Or mine, for that matter)?
Can medical miracles protect the kids?
brain bleeds
Who Are You?
Dear Bloody Brain, Sometimes I wonder where it all started, where you came from, when you showed up in my brain. For some reason, my mind keeps veering towards the belief that you came through Granny, my paternal grandmother. Dad has a couple of angiomas and Mum has none, so I know the angioma gene … Read more
Bloody Brain Interviewing 2
Bloody Brain: Why do you refer to me as The Bloody Brain? ME: That’s a difficult one. It started very close to the beginning, certainly before the surgeries. Was it something that came up in a conversation with Cindy? It started as a joke. I guess it just stuck. BB: Come on! Let’s be honest, … Read more
Dancing
I started slowly, but as I gained confidence, I sped up, moving to the left, or was it to the right? Dancing the grapevine, crossing my right foot behind my left, then my left behind my right, again and again, across the gym, fully focused on my feet, barely aware of my surrounding. Keith’s grasp … Read more
Service Dog
Since the bleeds, in some ways, reality is confined to the here and now. If all is well now, I’m fine, I’ll always been fine. When Cindy first suggested that I get a service dog, I wasn’t sure what one could really do for me. I had no idea that a service dog could help … Read more