Advocacy, Access, and Movement for the Silenced.
We all need to be accountable, for our actions. Telling an outright lie, especially when that lie will get another person in trouble, it is simply wrong on many levels. I say this, because recently a very good friend, relayed a story about how she had helped a man, only to have that man, completely…
I don’t know how the topic came up, but my Dad once told a story, while we sat around the table, at my grandparents, one Thanksgiving holiday, of the bathhouses he used to use as a young man. It wasn’t until high school that their home had the luxury of indoor plumbing! I was astonished,…
Something I was watching, made me think of the fact, that there are people who will never enjoy the beauty of a snowy day. Or never see the magnificence, of an ocean sunset. And will live their entire lives, but never know the beauty and tranquility, of a lush green forest, on a warm summer’s…
As mentioned in a previous BLOG, I am working on a book. I thought I would share my introduction with my loyal BedHead’s! I thought I was going to die! Both from what I’ve been told, and what I’ve read, I should have. It was September 22, 2021, and I had a massive brain stem…
I try hard to maintain a positive outlook about my situation. Some days are easier than others. I lie in bed, and anxiously wait, returning to the man I once was. I am aware that the odds are against me, but I choose to, instead believe, that my life will not end with me in…
Over the weekend, I watched the movie, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”. It is a movie, about a man who has a stroke and wakes up in a hospital, to find that he has been diagnosed with Locked in syndrome (LiS). The movie is French made, and it was a little too artsy for…
I’m going to keep track of a typical day of my life. It will give you some idea of what it is like to be me. I will spare you from the times, when I feel an itch or some random pain, as I do with my caretakers. I feel itches all the time, and…
I have several announcements to make: first, I’m going to be writing a book about Locked in syndrome. Second, I will post the chapters, here on this BLOG, for you to read first. And finally, Celia has graciously agreed to write the forward for my book. I’m pretty excited, that I’m doing something that I…
For those that don’t know, I’m on hospice. In researching it, I found out that in order to go on hospice, you have to be deemed terminally ill, with a life expectancy of fewer than six months. Well, I just passed eight months, and have no intention of proving them right about the terminal part. …
We bought our 15 acres, more or less, around the spring of 2012, and moved onto it, in the fall of 2013. Our home wasn’t anywhere near complete, for that matter, it still isn’t. So we spent our first winter in one room of a single-wide trailer. When I say we, I mean my wife…