In learning how to walk again, I found a way back to running.
Wellness Wednesday: How I Built Back Better
Wellness Wednesday: How the Fitness Habit Helped One Journalist Recover from COVID
What I had, you don’t want.
Surviving Amsterdam: Why I Celebrated My Two-Year “All Clear” With New Shoes
There was no question about trying to get my unresponsive feet into even the bigger Skechers — if you’ve ever tried to put a shoe on a baby, you get the idea.
Wellness Wednesday: Why Do I Miss Being a Patient?
I sat alone in the audiologist’s isolation room, my eyes closed, and concentrated on listening. And there it was, a beep. And another. And ... there, another. Why was I having my hearing tested? As we emerged out of the pandemic and into society, it seemed to me that I wasn’t hearing people as well.…
Wellness Wednesday: How Am I a One-in-a -Million Outcome?
In her opinion column in the Sunday New York Times, Dr. Daniela J. Lamas writes about unexpected ICU turn-arounds, when the grim repetition of bad news is trumped by unanticipated good news: … the one in a million outcomes, the patients who surprise and humble us.Daniela J. Lamas, pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham…
Wellness Wednesday: How I celebrated my second anniversary of being alive
As I sipped my first cup of coffee this morning, I checked for the Amsterdam time. It was about two in the afternoon, two years ago to the hour from when my heart stopped on May 5, 2019. My second anniversary We’d just crossed the Atlantic on a Holland America cruise ship and should have…
Travel Tuesday: Looking At The Dutch Tulips
Visitors tiptoe through the tulips in Dutch virus test, wrote Mike Corder recently for the AP, documenting the opening of the famed Keukenhof Gardens for a lucky 5,000 people. It is one of hundreds of public venues that the Dutch government has allowed to reopen under strict conditions to evaluate whether rapid testing can safely…
Wellness Wednesday: Three Strategies Behind My Recovery
Here I sit, on the eve of the second anniversary of my nearly-lethal aneurysm and three-month hospitalization, stronger than ever and completely myself. How did I do it?