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Tag: medical issues

  • Stay’n Alive

    I took my kid to the pediatric cardiologist today. It was in the medical building complex up the hills of Portland where they have Dorenbacher’s, Shriners and Oregon Health Sciences University Hospitals—all the best medicine we have available to modern humans. The reason we went was to keep my youngest healthy. While she didn’t have…

  • Modern Medicine

    Yesterday was the second longest day of this year. I had to get up early to drive out to Tanasbourne early for my biennial Echo. It’s something I have to do to make sure all the tubes and pumps are working in my heart. The hospital is running on a skeleton crew since the pandemic.…

  • A Year to Live

    My dear friend’s husband has spend the last year battling cancer. Off and on. He was diagnosed with the dreaded type four, but a good blast of chemotherapy and some intense surgery knocked it back for six months. Then it popped back up and they’re blasting it again. All the latest in medical technology is…

  • The Checkup

    When I was an adolescent, I was nervous about going to the doctor, but my middle school required a trip to the clinic before participation in after-school sports. Everything was going fine, but apparently, I winced while the doctor was prodding my abdomen. When asked asked if it hurt when I peed, I lied, “No.”…

  • Things Just Got Real

    It’s all just talk until someone goes to jail.

  • Slim Slow

    This is a story about how I am getting healthier and taking a while to do it. In fact, it has taken me seven months to lose seven pounds. It started last year after my OBGYN fired herself. Apparently, I didn’t need her obstetric services anymore that my baby producing phase is officially over. The…

  • The Great Debate

    Nature is not forgiving when it comes to human reproduction.

  • Part 2: the Other Shoe Drops

    The party that just won’t quit.​

  • A November to Remember

    This last week has been crazy with friends and family being in the hospital. I don’t want to embarrass anyone or call anyone out, I’m just expressing my secondhand feelings towards what happened. I had two cousins in the hospital with serious situations. They’re both probably due to presentations of congenital weaknesses that runs in…

  • A Plea

    We have come too far to fail now.