Tag Archives: GERD

Surgery is on! With or Without Sugar.

By Kirk M | Published February 18, 2009

Three times a charm they say and in my experience what they say (in this case) is often true. In parley with my surgeon down at the Boston VA yesterday we finally came to an accord. Surgery will take somewhere between the 15th and 30th of April, exact date depending on what her monthly surgery [...]

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Surgeons and Partials and Pills, Oh My!

By Kirk M | Published January 27, 2009

Did you ever notice that there are times when everything comes together at once? Well, Tuesday turned out to be one of those days indeed. Okay, maybe it’s not exactly a day I’d want to call the local newspaper about but it certainly wasn’t bad.
First the mail arrives with a letter from the Boston VA Surgery Clinic [...]

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General Announcments

By Kirk M | Published December 19, 2008

Seems like every time I seem to be ready to sit down and write a bunch of stuff something always gets in the way. This time, as usual, it was a combination of a flare up (disabilities, three each, the really bad one), a snow storm with all the wonderful cleaning up thereafter and the [...]

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Drawn, Quartered and De-Brained

By Kirk M | Published December 8, 2008

You know, it’s hard to write anything intelligible when you have a knife stuck somewhere in the area of your solar plexus. In fact, it’s nearly impossible. I’m beginning to feel a bit like Mel Gibson at the end of Brave Heart just after the executioner shows him an item that strangely resembles a $3.00 [...]

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Too Sweet for Surgery

By Kirk M | Published November 9, 2008

For those of you who are wondering what ever happened to me and the surgery that I was supposed to have had (yes, I said supposed to have had), it was cancelled at the last minute due to my blood sugar being too high. So what has high blood sugar have to with anything? According [...]

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On The Art of Not Posting

By Kirk M | Published October 3, 2008

The art of not posting…it isn’t as easy as it you might think. You have no idea what I have to go through to keep myself from posting so I’ve decided to make a short list of these items to let other bloggers know what they have to do to keep from posting no matter [...]

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