(mom’s) Tocino
Marinade: Brown sugar Garlic A little vinegar Soy Sauce Freshly ground pepper Marinate pork for a few days. Same deal with beef, but in which case you’d have Tapa.
Year: 2012
and here is where we get technical
Pretty. Not just pretty cool. I might be taking an umbrella to my heart. So here is the diagnosis… A Hole in the Heart – Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) When a person has stroke or transient ischemic stroke (TIA) “out of the blue” with no obvious risk factors, doctors often check to see if the event was caused by a “hole” in the heart called a patent foramen ovale (PFO)? About …
conversation with the Bootzer
Evan Mast by Elaine Oyzon-Mast “Tita Weez? How come you go to the right?” “Evan? Is that you?…I had a problem in my brain and it made me go right. But I can go straight now. And left. I can go left and right.” “Can you go up and down?” “That’s actually kinda hard. But I can go left and right and up and down.” “Okay.” Then he hangs up …
it’s off to work we go
So I get picked up and escorted to my two hour lecture, have a bit of a break with a side of primary care physician (“oh hai! doc. I know you’ve only seen me three times in twenty years. Nope, it isn’t bronchitis.”), and a four hour evening class. There’s a pesky 8 am class tomorrow, but that is so eighteen hours from now. I shall admit a worry about …
it keeps getting better
Stick figure me can’t get comfy because of my huge head, and there isn’t any dimension to even wrap my arms around my pillow. But stick figures can’t type. Stupid transitional dream to waking. I do know one thing – I am an xkcd comic. This gives me comfort.
and the village came
It was crazy. I had my phone. This is how I let people know what was going on. Over a hundred people commented and wrote and wished me well. This is just a snapshot of it all. It’s worth remembering. There can be a later post about social structures and how technology allowed for this to happen. But for now, I was and am well cared for and loved.
I want my swagger back
The dreams have such vivid color; such urgency. There are places to go and things to do and I am late. Such a contrast to this slow motion lurch to stand. I actually have to think about walking. Turns out, this is both tiring and trying. That the brain is capable of doing these things is crazy. That I am back to being a one year old is also crazy. …
Slowing down
Fewer words are sometimes just the thing. I think the the panic is subsiding. Didn’t know I was. Guess I was. All those words? Yep. Thanks, Tona. Always.
a rest
So odd to contemplate the negative space that would have been the place you are That would have been left for some other distraction but never really filled, not really.
back – ish
Yesterday is a tired blur. There was that discharge. Said goodbye and thanks to all the nurses. Hope the crazies are not so much. They really were good. Never EVER take insurance for granted if you’ve got it. There was never a question of can-I-afford-this? No one should ever have to worry about it. See? This is me not leaning right. There was an exhausted sleep for two hours. It …