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 had in mind something a little more radical..." Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) to Dr. Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel), "Blade Runner...

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...

See...that's the thing about Schedule 8 analgesics. They're all well and good when you're on them and they are giving a nice lit...

It's day 2 post op now. My lines and drains are out and I am existing in a pleasant fog, supplied graciously to me by an assortment of S...

DFA.

My wife bought me an elephant yesterday. We stopped by an Oxfam shop in town during a last minute excursion to finish up our Christmas shopp...

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

I think I'm entering a phase of being angry now.  I met with my neurosurgeon this afternoon to review the MRI scans that were captured...

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....