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Barbed Wire
My lower back is laced with the stuff. can’t sleep, can’t sit.Shoot me.
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In My Mother’s House
Just another reminder that my Mother loves fighters as much as she despises cowards and weaklings. I am, again, the luckiest man I know. I need to send someone some…
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Another Step Closer
Got word back from my cardiologist: I have a transplant green light. All my tests, even the unexpected ones, came back good enough to proceed. He’ll send the report to…
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Everybody Pays
I have someone to thank for a rare gift: perspective. “There’s always a price. Usually there’s no way of knowing what it is until the invoice slaps you in…
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Not soon enough
So- I’ve contacted The Swamp Witch, and shortly she’ll be coming north to get her medical workup done. Provided there are no hangups, we schedule surgery ASAP. I’m very impatient-…
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Light at the end of the tunnel
This month I have my LAST two tests for my long delayed transplant workup- a cardio consult and EKG. My jacket will then be complete. The goal now is to…
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I am blessed
With friends who’ll drop everything when I need them. As bad as things have gotten, it would be aa profound betrayal of these people to give up.
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Doing Time
So, progress. Like everything else right now, it’s all agonizingly slow. The most important element is one that has surfaced in a few ways, emerging from different cyphers until even…
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Hollow Man
I don’t think I’ve ever felt quite this way before. I want to call people up and make my problems theirs to help me shoulder- but they can’t, and I…
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Tourniquet
You know… I still hurt when I think of you. But I think that’s what you’re for.