Archive for January, 2008
At least once a season the Canucks go thru a period that makes me question my fan-ness. Not to sound like a talentless Vancouver Province sports writer who’s only trying to generate controversy, but man they sucked last night. For the last couple weeks actually. Listless, bored hockey, with few players stepping [...]
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Update on the surg…
Your smile lights up the hospital room,
please help me
please
During open-heart surgery,
please stay with me
During open-heart surgery….
“Open Heart Surgery”, Sense Field, 1999
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I’ll be meeting with the surgeon on Feb.7 and then going under the knife within a few weeks after that…could be the next day, could be 3 weeks. I’ve been doing [...]
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Yesterday, around 1 PM.
I watched my feet wriggle around under the blankets, making little shapes out of the sheet over top of them. My back was starting to hurt just a bit from 4 or 5 hours of lying on this hard bed, but nothing that would make me complain, really. The nurse was talking but [...]
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It’s called what?
“This body…this body holding me…Feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion”
Tool, “Parabola” 2001 Lateralus
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“Familial Hypercholesterolemia” Basically a genetic disorder in which the liver processes about half of the cholesterol it’s supposed to at any given time. Hence the reason I’ve had such ridiculously high cholesterol for so long. See [...]
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