Closer To My Heart

It has officially been one week since I returned home from a 6 day, 5 night stay in Parkview Regional Med Center for a deadly high blood pressure. A combo of ignorance on my part and a healthy dose of work-related stress brought me to a staggeringly 220/180 BP. That’s stroke alley right there, and […]

Home

After five days in the hospital and one whole day in the ER I finally was able to come home Thursday afternoon. You really take for granted the quiet of your own home; the whisper of air emanating from the furnace vent, the subtle hum of ceiling fans, and just those ghostly whooshes of the […]

Greetings From Room 1139

Hello everyone. I’m reaching out from my lovely room at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Why am I in a hospital room in the cardio unit of a major hospital you ask? Well, simply put last Friday I was in the throes of heart failure. Turns out that after three months of […]

Hot n Cold…Cold n Hot

Here I wax ecstatic about the weather and how different it was 40 years ago when I was a kid. Old man yells at clouds sort of thing.

Mid-March

Hard to believe it’s nearly mid-March in the year of our Lord 2026. We enjoyed 70 degree weather over the last few days, and today we’re back down to 29 degrees. Sunday will be a high in the 60s, then Monday we’ll be back into the 30s. So those folks sensitive to the up and […]

Long Winter

Winter usually doesn’t affect me mentally. I don’t get the winter blues or anything like that. If anything, I just get tired of how gross the outside becomes; ground and roads muddied from melting snow and ice, brown grass, and all the debris that falls throughout winter in the yard that I’m too lazy to […]

Pisces Birthday(s)

21 years ago my wife and I had left an appointment at the OBGYN, what would be our final OB appointment before our “son in the oven” was to be introduced into a strange and quickly declining world. But it was 2005, and at that time things seemed to be moving along nicely. We had […]

Took Some Days Off, So I thought I’d get Sick

At this point now it seems like it’s a given that if I take some time off I’m going to get sick. It’s the vacation playbook; take a couple days off for a nice 4-day weekend and 24 hours in I’m going to start feeling like crap. It was the case last week, as I […]

Check-In : Extended-Release Anxiety

Man, this week has not been the best. Started out Sunday where I had that weird little twinge in the pit of my stomach that usually indicates anxiety is just around the corner. Ended up going to the Y and walked three miles which helped that twinge. It went away, thankfully. But once I got […]

Wishful Thinking(Monday Thoughts)

I had a dream late last week that I’d gotten a call at work from someone wanting to hire me. It was the company that we currently share a building with. This medical company out of Kentwood, MI actually bought our facility when my employer was planning on closing and moving our manufacturing to Costa […]