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A totally not surprising, in any fucking way, headline: UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongfu...

Earlier this week I had a Zoom appointment with my neurologist – the one who deals with my stupid, nasty-ass movement disorder, essential tr...

Had my two big back to back doc appointments this week and the good news is that I’m getting old. That is, of course, also the not so aweso...

Chris Riddell I’m meeting my new PCP today at 2:30. The primary purpose of the appointment is the persistent off and on (mostly on) swelling...

Next week I’m meeting my new primary care physician (previous one retired early and I’m NOT unhappy about that). I’m at a general practice t...

I had another MRI yesterday. Whoopee! This one was for my spine. We’re still trying to find the root cause of the, now only occasional, inte...

Why do I get to survive and, relatively speaking – within this crazy-ass incurable NF2 world – thrive, while bright spots of sunshine and ...

I signed on to Facebook last night and got some tremendously unhappy news. My friend Michie O’Day has died. She took the last train to the...

I finally heard back from my neurologist re: my brain MRI. You know, this was the MRI that got bumped up from late September because of my n...

Do not, and I really gotta stress this, DO NOT attempt to prep/chill/peace out for your 2 PM  Sunday   MRI ahead of time by taking half a ca...

 Well, it’s been a week since I saw my neurologists’s nurse practitioner and told her of my fun new potential brain tumor growth symptoms . ...

I had a check in with the nurse practitioner who works with my neurologist, Doc Plotkin, specifically with regards to the chemo med I’m on. ...

H.R. Giger Sometimes I feel like an alien. A stranger in a strange land but NOT a stranger as written by Robert Heinlein (the Ayn Rand of...