Adventures in Transportation
A wee bit of background. I’m having surgery on my brain as a participant in a clinical trial for a new gene therapy for Parkinson’s. Yes, there will be holes drilled into my brain. No, I won’t be awake for it, and it isn’t expected to be painful. The study provides what they call “concierge”…
Keep readingDrill baby drill
That’s what I’ll tell the surgeon some months hence as he prepares to inject a virus into the command center of my very essence, that is, my brain. Yes, the clinical trial testing a gene therapy’s efficacy in slowing disease progression in Parkinson’s Disease is on, baby! In my typical Only Know What You Need…
Keep readingLean in…to lethargy
I woke thinking….Hmmm. Well I probably wake thinking hmmmm every day. Today’s hmmm translates as “how can I waste house-bound guilt-free time today? But is there really such a thing as wasted time anyway? I mean we spend time. We use time., sometimes wisely sometimes not. Either way, those five minutes are gone forever.. What’s…
Keep readingI’ve Flunked Meditation
I’d just concluded a delightful four-day visit with an old friend in Atlanta. We’ve known each other since we met at Camp.Mataponi in Naples, Maine at the age of ten. We were fast friends for all our nine years at camp, lost touch for decades, and miraculously reconnected about fifteen years ago. Our lives are…
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