Being human
and life's little mysteries

All in all, today was a pretty good day. Since about midnight last night I was what hospital folk call “null by mouth”‘, when the patient...

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...

Today has been another eventful day at the Royal Free complete with wonderful visits from friends, and medical progress around the...

What a difference twenty-four hours can make. After yet another sleepless night (crazy talk, I tell you), I spend the early hours taking...

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...

What a difference a day makes. This morning I awoke to intense pain in my right abdomen, nausea, and a little increase in jaundice....

During the second week following surgery, my body and mind have undergone multiple transformations. I started the second week walking...

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...

When I got the call from the transplant team four months ago, going through the motions of getting prepared for the hospital and prepped...

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...

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest...

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...