Posts Tagged ‘PTSD’

The Strategy

I’ve decided that I only have two life options left. Within the next five years, I must either be my own boss or I have to change my name and work on a Syrian cargo ship and re-emerge after 15 years as a hardened terrorist.


Pain Diary

Today is the third anniversary of the surgery that delivered me from 12 years of chronic pain.  My shrink, who I went to under protest, told me to treat it as a holiday.  A birthday.  She said, for the rest of my life, I should take off April 19th and celebrate.  So, as you read […]


Our Little Deaths

I’ve been commuting to downtown DC for over a decade now, and combining about ten miles of walking with the commute as part of my “passive health plan.” Statistically speaking, I suppose it’s inevitable that I would get hit by a car. Though I live in fear of the increasing number of bicyclists who, despite […]


One Year Later

It’s been one year since my brain surgery. As you can read in that old article, I had Trigeminal Neuralgia, which made me wish for death every single day for over a decade. Luckily, I was too much of a coward to kill myself. But, whew, there were days, baby…


Holiday Resolutions

Back from two weeks in the UK – Christmas with a group of old friends, together for the first time in about a decade. All grown up and married with kids, so I was the weird bachelor who drunkenly played with the infant. I found myself, especially on New Years Eve, to be on the […]