May 28, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — WORK!
When I thought I needed medication, my physical therapist instead provided motivation.
Category: Medicine
May 27, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — PLAY!
When chronic pain hits, brain fog descends. What do you do when you can’t concentrate?
May 22, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — BELIEVE!
“Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf
May 21, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — LAUGH!
Laughter is the best medicine . . . unless you’re constipated, or worse, you have to use a medical toilet; or worse — are you kidding me? — there’s nothing worse.
May 20, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — ENDURE!
You learn many lessons following a tough surgery; lessons that teach you how to better ENDURE, LAUGH, BELIEVE, PLAY, WORK and RESOLVE. Today’s surgical lesson: ENDURE!
April 21, 2021
Hidden Monsters
Be afraid. Be very afraid because it’s in there, waiting to surface again.
April 9, 2021
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
A plethora of health challenges can leave anyone feeling a bit down in the mouth.
March 31, 2021
My First Hospital Admission
I recently learned two truths: One, experiencing heart attack symptoms is profoundly frightening; and two, mouth guards float.
January 16, 2020
My CVS Friend
“You never write, you never call . . . where’s the love gone?” That’s how I greet my CVS friend, … Read More “My CVS Friend”
March 6, 2019
Little Lighthouses
Ever perfunctorily greet and walk past a stranger at 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning who then yells after you, … Read More “Little Lighthouses”