Swallowed A Penny

I was a young child, perhaps 6 or 7 years old, as I lay on my bed, lost in a daydream as I rolled a penny around in my mouth with my tongue. My tongue lost control of the penny, and I swallowed it. I was brought back from my daydreaming with a panic, andContinue

Stupid People, Mad At ARNP

My psychiatric nurse practitioner was supposed to send in a progress report to the court, but she had not done so within the 45 days that were allotted to her, so when I had my appointment with her yesterday, I took the court papers I received in to her. While I was at it, IContinue

A Full Night’s Sleep

I got a full night!s sleep last night, and it was amazing! Most people may not be so grateful to have slept all night, but that’s because they take it for granted. They will just lie down and fall asleep. It hasn’t worked that way for me lately. I usually lie down for up toContinue

Autism, Muscular Dystrophy, & CRPS

Reading The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks tonight prompted me to write a few words; see the last section of that book, and you will see what I mean as you read on. I still hear people who believe that vaccines cause autism. Sometimes they will say that there are lot more diagnoses ofContinue

Chiropractors Are Quacks!

In late 18th century France, Franz Mesmer was riding high on his popular therapeutic sessions in which he allegedly cured patients by the power of what he called “animal magnetism.” In The Report of the Commissioners Charged by the King to Examine Animal Magnetism, the commissioners (which included Antoine Lavoisier and Ben Franklin) were givenContinue

Materialistic

Somebody asked me if I “needed to have material things.” What other things are there? Anti-matter? All things that we conceive of are “material things,” no? Sure, most space, as physics informs us, is “empty” space, but still all “things” as we know them are material; that is, they are made of matter, are physical,Continue