So I wrote a few days ago about the fact that I had two of my wisdom teeth removed. I considered writing a follow-up at the end of the day after – if I had, it would likely have read generally of how the pain wasn’t as bad as I’d expected and that I may not even need the stronger pain meds they’d given me. If I had written that, I would have been writing a scathing retraction the very next day. Read more “Extraction Update: Check Please!”
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So Am I Less Wise?
At the age of 33, on the morn of St. Patrick’s Day, I found myself sitting under the harsh lights waiting to go under the drill – I had my wisdom teeth removed. It was well overdue and needed to be done, but knowing that did not prevent my stomach from protesting as I approached the office door. Intellect won the day because – as some wise man once said, my guts have shit for brains. All told, it wasn’t a bad process and a half a day later I don’t feel all that bad. Read more “So Am I Less Wise?”
Coming to Terms
I’m feeling rather introspective at the moment. Life is full of change and complication and agendas that could care less how well you keep up. If you don’t take time to reflect on where you have been and where you are going, the journey loses a lot of its meaning. These words feel somewhat ironic as most of the time I find myself giving my wife the opposite advice – she has a tendancy to let the past and the future overwhelm her so I ground her by telling her to focus on the present. In truth, we need balance; we need to live in the moment while not losing sight of the past or losing focus on the future. But no matter how much it is preached, it is a difficult lesson to embrace. Read more “Coming to Terms”
If Only I Had Insomnia
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”
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!”