A good doctor is hard to find. When I moved back to Georgia in 2015, I had to find a new cadre of doctors to replace the excellent doctors I had while a patient of the UNC Health Care system. My “new” hematologist and oncologist is Dr. Charles Nash, whose practice is in Gainesville, Georgia. […]
What exactly am I going to miss? Like many, I was saddened to hear that the retailer Toys “R” Us was shuttering its stores in the United States. Just the name Toys “R” Us induces such a pleasant nostalgic feeling that whisks me back to a time when my biggest concern was hiding the pink slips […]
Cancer caught me off guard, even though it should not have. In February of 2010, I had a routine colonoscopy. I call it routine, but, actually, it would have been routine only for those in my situation. I had severe inflammatory bowel disease that had largely gone unchecked for ten years. It was not from a […]
I had my first brush with civic responsibility. I had thought, upon becoming disabled, that I certainly would never actually serve on jury duty. I require four liters of oxygen per minute. I also have an ileostomy. Both of those factors would require that I take multiple breaks during the course of proceedings to change […]
