Last night, because there is something wrong with my brain, I sat down to play a level of Candy Crush at 10:30, and five minutes later it was 1:45 AM. I trudged up to bed, knowing that I was going to be tired in the morning, and this was confirmed a short time later when […]
Category Archives: Doctors
The Pros and Cons of a Stomach Flu
Dear readers, I have a terrible stomach flu. I will not bore you or gross you out with a lot of the details of such, but as I sit here, or lie here, and try to put a positive spin on things, I decided to make a list of pros and cons. You know, to […]
Life. It’s the Worst.
Yes, yes, I know. Do not be discouraged. Life is also the best sometimes too. And I agree. But right now, it is the worst. I am the worst. Everything is the worst. Yesterday afternoon, as I was yelling at my son to put his boots on, he had a seizure. We were running late […]
A Whole New Kind of Seizure
I was in the middle of a board meeting last night when I got the call. My wife had already texted me a few times during the meeting, so to get an actual phone call was already a cause for concern, and I backed my chair away from the table a few inches and answered […]
So You Want To Start Making Ecstasy…
Last Friday I went to my doctor and asked to be screened for ADHD. Well, my new doctor. My old doctor quit and went into sports medicine, which was fine with me because, honestly, I found him a little intimidating. The last thing I need is super good-looking doctor in great shape looking at my […]
The Problem With My Brain
There is a problem with my brain. I suspect that I may have ADD. Or ADHD. Or whatever they are calling it these days. Thinking about it now, I was definitely that kid back in school, and even though they didn’t have Ritalin in those days, I’m sure they would have tried to give it […]
A Visit to the Neurologist
Two weeks ago, as many of you know, we started a very scary couple of days here with regards to my daughter’s epilepsy. Ruby, who is five years old, had three very long seizures within a four and a half day period, sending us to the emergency room and freaking us completely out. Since then, […]
Emergency Rooms, Bacon, and Chocolate Pudding
This is not what I wanted to write about today. I wanted to tell you about my trip to New York for auditions, the Halloween party that I went to, impending storm stuff, or pretty much anything else but my daughter’s health issues. Sadly, that is all I have been dealing with for the past […]
Emergency Doctor Visit
There is nothing quite like the feeling that you get in the pit of your stomach when you have allowed one of your children to be injured. And when you yourself are directly responsible for the injury, that sick feeling quickly spreads from your stomach, all the way to the depths of your very soul. […]
An Appointment With Heartbreak
A year and a half ago my daughter was diagnosed with epilepsy. She was just turning four, and what she called “her ears turning off” were in fact petit mal seizures, which we were able to completely control with medication. She had no incidents for almost a year, and then last Christmas there were two […]