September 20, 2016: I Can’t Be Sick Right Now…

And yet here we are – I’ve got a million and one things to do, I’ve got two newborns in the NICU and a recovering wife home to take care of … and suddenly I’m sicker than a dog. W.T.F. Truth be told, Christopher and I have both been sort of harboring this coughing thing for…

June 27, 2016: Kidney Stone(s), Revisited

Here I thought that we were done with this thing last Friday – I had suffered my fate and peed out my rocks, and it was time to move on with the rest of my life. Apparently the rest of my life was a mere two days because after waking up this morning with that same familiar ache that…

June 22, 2016: Kidney Stone(s)?!

Well … at least it’s not back pain??? 😯 Needless to say, things didn’t improve last night quite as I had hoped … I actually woke up thinking that I was feeling better, but throughout the day the pain somehow relocated and then returned persistently worse until I finally bit the bullet and went to urgent care where the nice doctor and…

June 21, 2016: Back Pain

The signs of getting older are becoming more and more apparent, from the teenage bagger at Publix offering to carry my lone shopping bag to my car to the fact that I’ve recently been actively shopping for the bounty known as life insurance, but nothing serves as a painful reminder of my own feeble mortality more than … back pain….

Mar 23, 2016: 24 Hours in Bed (Almost)

The human body wasn’t meant to spend an entire day at a time in bed … as much as I certainly do love my sleep from time to time! So yesterday was a bit rough when that nasty bug that the kid drudged his way through managed to snake its way back through the rest…