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Triple Whammied

By Kirk M | Published January 27, 2010

I seemed to have triple whammied myself. Sucker punched, knocked over and kicked myself when I was down. Slam, bam, wham and I was out. Or wish I was.
I’m not going to go into any detail here but it has to do with an apple (Cortland—first one in two years), RLS and more RLS. The [...]

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Contrary to popular belief—I’m normal.

By Kirk M | Published August 2, 2009

A few years back my then Primary Care Physician (PCP) at the VA, whom I shall refer to as “Young Dr. Young” henceforth,  had me take a pulmonary function test. This just happened to be the period of my life that was several months after my parents had passed away (my sister and I [...]

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People living longer | Thursday ponderings

By Kirk M | Published July 9, 2009

I read an article in the New York Times today that stated that researchers have discovered an antibiotic that appears to prolong life in mice:
Rapamycin treatment had the remarkable effect of extending life even though it was not started in the right dose until the mice had lived 600 days — equivalent to a person [...]

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My body is brittle?

By Kirk M | Published June 15, 2009

I went to down Boston way one week ago today for a follow up appointment with my surgeon. She wanted to see how me and her fine work were getting along and I, of course, had a few of my own questions to ask her. Like what did she mean when she said my body [...]

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Please Excuse the Author From His Blog

By Kirk M | Published March 1, 2008

Still down and out folks, this virus will just not let go from either me or Laurie who has spent the majority of the last 3 work days at her shop, sitting in her hammock chair waiting for her head to fall off or her chest to explode. As for me I managed to take [...]

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And a Little Child Shall Infect

By Kirk M | Published February 27, 2008

I should have known better. How many times has this happened before and still I did it again and now I’m suffering the same type of consequences. Will I ever learn?
To understand the last bit you need to know something about me and that something is my immune system. It’s a rather good one actually. [...]

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Crap! I’m Sick!

By Kirk M | Published January 23, 2008

First of all I’m sick. That’s right; burning throat, runny nose, tissue burned lips and I just know it’s thinking of heading down to the lungs just to see what kind of trouble it can get into. And I’m sure it will. Laurie’s been sick with this all week so I have a good idea [...]

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Bifocals Baby!

By Kirk M | Published December 12, 2007

I’ve been handed my “old age” hat. The VA is sending me bifocals from my last eye exam. Sheesh!

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