Category Archives: Health

Chaff

Posted on June 5, 2017 by sputterpub

A radar countermeasure from before I drew a breath, a noun that makes me laugh – is what I think of when you bring me more minute details – it’s like you scattered chaff around – my mental air is … Continue reading →

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Exhortation

Posted on May 19, 2017 by sputterpub

Desert the bay for desert solitude. Forsake for sand asphalt security. Give up the bath and smile on the crude appliances of camping purity. Adjust the pack and venture on a trail that’s never felt the surface of a wheel. … Continue reading →

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Design

Posted on May 18, 2017 by sputterpub

Redundancy’s a benefit in smart design, along with sensors and alerts. And symmetry’s a necessary part, aesthetically and practically. Then hurts are not catastrophes. Malfunctions do occur, but engineering kept in mind the likely fails and rarer problems too, so … Continue reading →

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Irregretful

Posted on May 12, 2017 by sputterpub

The medicos have not been good for me. In general I’ve had less help than pain from doctors, nurses, techs and pharmacy, but every now and then the docs explain a situation, show a stretch or teach, and then I … Continue reading →

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Patient Progress

Posted on May 8, 2017 by sputterpub

My belly is a pouch of ripply fat that hangs apart whenever I prepare to touch the floor, and on my lap it sat last night when I relaxed within my chair. My buttocks have an action all their own. … Continue reading →

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Malaise

Posted on March 13, 2017 by sputterpub

Three weeks ago I caught a heavy cold, or maybe it was flu infecting me, but I was stricken then with manifold complaints, among them loss of energy and aching joints, bronchitis threatening, and lack of appetite. All pleasures off, … Continue reading →

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Virus

Posted on March 6, 2017 by sputterpub

I must be ill – I lack the energy to exercise, the stamina to eat. I’m guessing it’s a virus – remedy cannot be bought – I sit, I use the heat and rest until invasion runs its course – … Continue reading →

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Bad Pain Good Pain

Posted on February 14, 2017 by sputterpub

Eleven years of age: false modesty erupts; beginning sarcasm appears. “Because I’m dumb,” my daughter says to me, when I interrogate her. Leaking tears from gruff frustration, with a tweener flounce of head, she’s that embarrassed to be wrong. “I’m … Continue reading →

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Spindle

Posted on January 31, 2017 by sputterpub

Perhaps our spinning wheel was alcohol. Our parents had a cocktail many nights, and wine was shared on holidays, with all of us imbibing sips amid the lights of candles and the mammoth-plattered foods. But no one told us drunks … Continue reading →

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Smoking

Posted on January 27, 2017 by sputterpub

I took up smoking 50 years ago. A little pot in high school started me. Progressing to tobacco, deep and slow as if it were the same commodity, I purchased Winstons through my college years, and switched to Players when … Continue reading →

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