Finding Hope

I don’t know about you, but I find it very frustrating about I have so many things that I want to do that I can’t seem to do anything properly. For example, I can have lots of great story ideas, Read more

A writer can have all of the creativity in the world, and still have difficult writing sometimes. This is a situation that I am all too familiar with. I can have the story playing out in my head but having Read more

It happened again! I have another set of ” writer’s problems” These problems involve short stories, specifically the fact that I am really bad at reading them. A short story is basically a fully developed story that is significantly shorter Read more

I got back for the hospital recently. Don’t worry. It wasn’t Covid. However, my stay renewed my appreciation for nurses. These medical professionals often don’t get as much recognition as they deserve. In fact, they are even more devoted than Read more

In my last post, I told my readers that I am going into the hospital soon, six days and counting as of the date of this post, to have a surgery. To most people, this experience would be very scary. Read more

To put it bluntly, it was been a bad two months. With migraines, nausea, and not being able to sleep laying down, I have lost a lot of energy. Today, I have found myself ” going through the motions”. In Read more

On my previous post, I discussed my current health problems. I had hoping that sleeping semi-upright would be at least a partial solution. Unfortunately, my worst nightmare has come true. This morning, I woke up feeling very nauseous with a Read more

My health has never been great. As mentioned in previous posts, I have hydrocephalus, which is essentially excess water on the brain. Because of this, I had shunts implanted in my brain, as a child. Many of this shunts have Read more

People with health problems of all kinds usually are very observant when it comes to the warning signs of serious problems. In my case, a lifetime of chronic pain has made me hypervigilant about watching for these signs, which can Read more

People did not have to be labeled “old” to have constant body pain, including aches in the joints. This kind of pain is often a sign of simply living. For example, my knees can not take the pressure of kneeling Read more