Category: Just Sayin’

Essays on whatever strikes me as interesting.

WALKING!

Christoph’s good humor, mixed with his insistence that I can do whatever he says I can do has meant that I am now walking,

HOME!

Being wheelchair-bound redefined home.

REHAB!

They said, sure, it might be possible. Little did I know how hard it would be.

STROKE!

In that instant I had gone from fully mobile, wide awake human being to a functional cripple.

80

  At my age the most important force in my life is aging, and each night I declare a victory in the war against age. At age 50 my doctor told me our goal was to make sure I was healthy at age 80. I just laughed because I never…