Tonight is the fifth night that I have been awake until 3:00 AM or later and it is catching up with me. I wish that I could say that I’ve been up doing something fun. I wish that I could say that I’ve been up doing something productive and worthwhile. I would even be content to be able to say that I’ve been up because I wasn’t tired and couldn’t get to sleep or because my kids have kept me up. No, unfortunately this series of late nights have been work-related and the majority of that work has been waiting and monitoring. Read more “If Only I Had Insomnia”
Category: health
Back to Normal – OW!
The good news is that after 6 days, my wife is finally home from the hospital. The lesion on her knee is shrinking and she is slowly regaining normal mobility. The bad news is that I now have a small lesion on my arm. I can’t exactly sit here and blame her – in hindsight I was likely the carrier to begin with. I had already had a couple such lesions that I dealt with and moved on. Maybe it is something that I inherited from my father, but it didn’t really occur to me to seek medical attention over the matter. I was acutely aware of the wounds (they seemed like nasty boils) and I would monitor them, treat them as it seemed appropriate, and at times when I considered that I might need to actually see someone about it, I’d decide to wait another day to see if it got better. And gradually it did. Read more “Back to Normal – OW!”
Mr. Mom
I apologize to those few readers I have for my sporadic and infrequent posting as of late. For much of my recent absence, the issue has mostly been that I’ve been busy with work and too drained at the end of the day to sit and write something. But for the past week I’ve had a more serious excuse for my lack of presence – My wife was checked into the hospital on Tuesday for a bad staph infection in her knee that turned out to be MRSA. Read more “Mr. Mom”
The Weight Is Over (sort of)
So I’ve been running/participating in a weight-loss contest for the past 10 weeks that ended yesterday. Unfortunately I ended in fifth place which has no prize attached (started the morning in third, but got knocked out by 2 surprisingly good weigh-ins after me). The good news is that I HAVE lost 15 lbs. in those 10 weeks and plan to continue the healthier habits I’ve developed as a result. It will likely be a little harder not having the contest as a motivating factor, but hopefully other factors will help support my efforts. Read more “The Weight Is Over (sort of)”
Weight For It …
I’m fat. No need to argue or reassure me otherwise – I have known that it is true and I have come to terms with it. I’m overweight (and under-tall, but there is little I can do about that part). But I am doing something about it. The trouble is that it is not an easy thing to fix. Read more “Weight For It …”