I'm home now.  It's been five days since my surgery and four days since my Medtronic Intellis spinal cord stimulator was switche...

It's a strange experience being a "guest" in the place where you work. Even after a few times, I've never entirely gotten ...

I met with my neurosurgeon again earlier this week to review the series of MR scans and X-Rays that I had taken last week of my brain (I hav...

No matter how many times I enter into the painfully narrow tunnel of the MR imaging machine, I never feel as though I'm getting used to ...

I saw my neurosurgeon last Friday for my 6 week post operative review. It's kinda hard to believe that six weeks have past since my surg...

I can't remember how long it's been since I've been to a beach.  The sun on my face.  The sand between my toes.  The sea b...

They're a curious thing. Scars.  Some are easy to see. They're in your face, confronting. They challenge you to consider them.  ...

In his 2002 memoir, "Lucky Man", actor Michael J. Fox recounted an moment, the night before he underwent delicate brain surgery in...

If you've never had Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) performed before, it's a difficult experience to distill into a basic descripti...

Where to begin with this... So...I've had to digest a lot of news in a short space of time this past week, so my thoughts are a jumble....

I'm on a journey. This is a profound and moving book that has imprinted on me. DFA.

How's this for a dichotomy?  The older I get, the less I feel I know about the world. Though I might say that I have accumulated con...

I'm back with a post as part of my writers' group August blog chain challenge and, this month, the topic put to us was a question - ...