Being human
and life's little mysteries

Over the past few days of being in the hospital, my mind and emotions have stabilized as I acclimate to the lowered doses of pain...

Being in the hospital going on six weeks can sometimes feel like a marathoner at the twenty-second mile. “The wall”, as it’s called in...

Five weeks. Five weeks! I never planned on a stay in the hospital this long. This wasn’t how my transplant recovery was supposed to go....

Today is my one month liver transplant anniversary. It is also the first time in a month that I have stepped outside of the hospital for...

You can’t always get what you want but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need. The Rolling Stones Often in life...

The first time I ever heard of the term Pain Management was February 2013, when I was lucky enough to meet my current Hepatologist. I had...

The two words that come to for me when I consider the past week of my physical and emotional healing process are Pain and Love,...

I woke from a daydream this morning feeling extreme nausea; I vomited, and started to cry. It felt good, to cry, something my eyes have...

I imagine there is a certain set of emotions that come with receiving an organ transplant from someone who has lost their life, and a...

I realize that when I write about the medical complexities of organ transplantation it’s not always easy to follow, even for me. Even for...

PYS 1.33: Maitri Karuna Muditopeksanam Sukha Dukha Punyapunya Visayanam Bhavantas Citta Prasnadanam Definition: Maitri -friendliness...

On Sunday, 9 days after the transplant surgery , a flicker of light went on in my body-mind and I began to feel just a little bit better....

Life on 10N is Very touch and go right now. Each day there are new emergencies and something physical, emotional and/or mental to...

Time, beyond being a measuring tool to make appointments which deem us too early or too late, confounds my cortical mind. It has been...

PYS 2.3 avidya asmita raga dvesha abinivesha pancha klesha There are five kinds of hindrances or obstacles of the mind (kleshas): 1)...

Yoga chitta vritti nirodhah (Patanjali 1.2) The state of yoga ceases the fluctuations of the mind (when you are in a state of yoga, all...

There is more to life than increasing its speed. –Mahatma Gandhi It never ceases to amaze me how people spend their time. Whether its...

I’ve always had a great admiration for people who are able to communicate directly. This isn’t always easy, especially for those living...

A beautiful being, friend, yoga student created this presentation for the NHS to increase awareness and numbers of registered organ...

If your life were a game, what type of game would it be? Chess, Monopoly, Solitaire? In the past six months, my life has turned into a...