MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'autobiography'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:09:14 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159631&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F25%2Fthere-are-some-blog-posts-id-like-to-forget-on-returning-to-the-ndp%2F I’ve always tried to make this blog somewhat of a record of my life, however fragmented, warts and all.  Here in the archives is my defiant abandonment of the New Democratic Party for, let’s say, greener pastures.  However right it felt at the time, and for a couple of by-elections and a general election after, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159631 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:54:54 +0100 5159631 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5069735&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F07%2F27%2Fthere-is-no-hierarchy-in-grief-of-norway-and-amy-winehouse%2F Please read this from Scott Dagostino, whose writing makes me admire the way his mind works. Being someone who might preemptively describe myself as naive (which endears me to world-wise friends and the ne’er do-well-alike), I must say the title of Scott’s post took me in with more than its most obvious sarcasm and led [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5069735 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:14:52 +0100 5069735 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4953268&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2F19%2Fnot-pictured%2F View Full Album I am mindful, on this Father’s Day, that I do not have many photographs of Thomas Arnold (“Arnie”) Chaplin.  (The additional ones I do have are wedding party shots with people who might not wish to be published.)  However my memory informs me of many more, in safe-keeping with Mom, from the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4953268 Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:51:16 +0100 4953268 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4953269&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2F18%2Frustling-the-branches-of-my-old-family-tree%2F You’ve probably seen the advertisements for Ancestry.ca (or dot-com elsewhere). A few weeks ago I decided to give it a test-drive and I must say I’m hooked! The program isn’t doing all the work, mind you, as I leaf through two or three family-specific books that have been largely ignored by other members of the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4953269 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:53:10 +0100 4953269 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4953270&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2F17%2Fa-change-in-mr-gs-eye-exam%2F  Mr. G’s eye exam has been changed again, maybe for the last time, so that the antagonist, though dead for more than a decade, might only be identified by his last initial and the responsibilities he held. (Anyone familiar with the school at the time does not need to have him named.) I’m doing this [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4953270 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:01:52 +0100 4953270 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4852940&cid=t_106499_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F05%2F22%2Fam-i-a-defensive-pessimist%2F Photo credit: vrogy (Flickr) This blog post, I’m convinced, will be a real disaster. I mean, just think of all the things that could possibly go wrong! If I post it at the wrong time of day, no one will read it. If I don’t write with super-engaging language and in a clever tone, potential readers will bypass my post for something else on the internet that’s far more exciting. Oh, and I’ll probably (unknowingly!) insert a blatant typo that my eyes refuse to notice — even after several rounds of proofreeding. Or proofreading. Yeah, that second one. I’ve painted a pretty gloomy picture there, haven’t I? It feels a little awkward to admit that I’m a pessimist. The world really seems to be riding the wave of optimism these days, at least as far as... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4852940 Sun, 22 May 2011 22:14:59 +0100 4852940 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4813609&cid=t_106499_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F8SkMHFuSFRE%2F Image via Wikipedia I have been writing a lot lately, which you cannot tell from here because I have posted almost none of it. I am not going to correct that situation now, but put down a list of my favorite autobiographies — few in number. Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe Lit, Mary Karr Filed under: books Tagged: Autobiography, CIDER WITH ROSIE, Laurie Lee, Look Homeward Angel, Mary Karr, Thomas Wolfe (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4813609 Wed, 11 May 2011 23:22:01 +0100 4813609 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4797878&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F07%2Fmays-contradictions-2%2F The month of May is one tinged with melancholy for members of my family. On May 4, 2002 my father dropped dead in his garden which, for him, could not have been a more suitable place. Yet he was only seventy-five, a birthday celebration only a few weeks earlier for which the entire family had [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4797878 Sat, 07 May 2011 16:44:23 +0100 4797878 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4742607&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F21%2Flicence-to-drive-licence-to-vote%2F When I vote in advance polls this weekend I will not be asked to dip a finger in purple ink.  Armed guards will not be inside or outside the polling station.  My vote will not be influenced by bribes or intimidation.  Sad then, isn’t it, that so many Canadians, having seen the struggles for democracy [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4742607 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:14:52 +0100 4742607 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4704873&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F12%2Fandr-gagnon%2F The upright grand piano in our living-room was given a good work-out most days when I was a kid, if not from older brother Craig or me (our sisters never took to it) then most certainly from Mom’s many piano students on weekdays after school, evenings and the occasional Saturday.  Piano music, therefore, is something [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4704873 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:42:13 +0100 4704873 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4693461&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F07%2Fmessiah-the-musical%2F I know, I know – George Frederick Handel’s famous work is actually an Oratorio.  (A musical would require lots of period costumes and at least one big dance number!  Now imagine combining that with Mel Gibson’s gratuitously blood-letting Passion of the Christ.  No, let’s not.) This was the time of year, probably forty years ago, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4693461 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:27:48 +0100 4693461 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4684667&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F06%2Fan-early-political-rally%2F It seemed, in hindsight, to be less of a political rally, such as go on during an election campaign, and more of a small-town welcome to a Prime Minister.  It might well have been both. On the lawn in front of a specially-built stage across from the band-shell, between beautiful Stewart Park and the stately [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4684667 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:28:17 +0100 4684667 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4545010&cid=t_106499_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F03%2F03%2Fcultivating-creativity-every-day%2F On June 4, 2007 artist Noah Scalin created a skull on his blog and promised to create a different skull every day for a year. He did. He created a variety of skulls: everything from his first orange paper skull to a flower skull to a PB&J skull to a skull made out of pennies. That’s 365 skulls and counting. (He continues the project today with submissions from readers.) His daily project inspired the book 365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life! In it, Scalin encourages readers to create their own year-long project. He shares one suggestion each day to help spark readers’ imaginations. He writes that “a daily project is a personal journey that can offer you a rare opportunity for self-discovery and personal growth with tangible results�... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4545010 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:35:58 +0100 4545010 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4525046&cid=t_106499_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F02%2F26%2Fnew-web-technologies-of-biomedical-self-presentation%2F Like biography, autobiography has always been an important genre for science communication — like Francis Crick’s autobiography What Mad Pursuit (1988). A couple of decades ago, only a tiny scientific elite had, in practice, access to present themselves autobiographically in the form of book-length memoirs and interviews in newspaper and magazines. Science communication through self-presentation was thus largely restricted to famous life scientists, medical doctors and their famous patients. Now, thanks to the web, and especially social web technologies, public self-presentation has become an opportunity for the global biotechnoscientific multitude. Medical and nursing students, life science PhD students, and all kinds of ordinary patients are blogging, facebooking and t... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4525046 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:08:29 +0100 4525046 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4525146&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F26%2Fmusic-of-the-movement%2F One of the first activists’ songs that had any resonance for me was “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?” (1961) and then “Give Peace A Chance” (1969). Dylan’s “Blowin’ In The Wind” (1963) was an anthem, if ever there was one, and I remember making a connection with “One Tin Soldier” in 1969. While grown-ups [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4525146 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 05:29:00 +0100 4525146 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4512575&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F23%2Fback-to-paying-greater-attention%2F When this link Mindfulness and Psychotherapy nudged itself toward my consciousness today on my Facebook page I thought it worth exploring if only because I have too often come down hard on myself for having let slide my mindfulness mediation practice. (Such self-flagellation is, need I say, not part of this discipline – nor, come [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4512575 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:59:04 +0100 4512575 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4495379&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F18%2Fawesome-task-or-perhaps-not-bridging-the-perspective-gap%2F Excerpts from my tweets (and a RT) from early this afternoon: Death by daily repression and near-starvation or death by desperate martyrdom via the State responsible? Your choice? #Bahrain #Libya #Yemen MD from #Bahrain: “Pls, pls, where is the #UN; we need the world; ppl are being killed in the streets!” Ambu’s BLOCKED frm #PearlRoundabout [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4495379 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:06:06 +0100 4495379 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4470514&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F12%2Fhope-as-verb-noun-andor-feeling%2F Everything I am feeling in this moment is in the context of having watched, via television and Twitter, the roller-coaster of events in Egypt these past 18 days, of having just listened to the Feb. 6 (2011) edition of Tapestry from CBC Radio with Mary Hines, and of having made the seemingly Herculean effort to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4470514 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:03:43 +0100 4470514 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4455433&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F09%2Ftxt-telephone-or-blog-lets-talk-about-mental-illness%2F This is Bell Let’s Talk Day. Multiple Olympic medallist Clara Hughes, lead spokesperson for the campaign, was on CTV News in Toronto today. From among the calls she fielded came this articulate gem, “To kill the pain too often means to kill oneself.” However, and this was Clara’s message, help and hope are available to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4455433 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:48:33 +0100 4455433 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445972&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F07%2Funpacking-more-personal-baggage%2F Pardon me for the humourless dissecting of my neuroses Have I mentioned before having used, for many years, the esteem-busting mantra “If anyone deserves AIDS, I do!”  (Looking at it now I feel like each word should be italicized for emphasis, rather than just one or two.) What a message: If anyone deserves AIDS, I [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445972 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:21:00 +0100 4445972 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4442091&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F05%2F30-years-out%2F If ever I’ve had a “But for the grace of God, there go I” occasion (even though I have problems with that expression) it would have to have been February 5, 1981 – thirty years ago today. At 11 p.m. that night, more than 150 police carried out simultaneous raids on four of Toronto’s most [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4442091 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:39:02 +0100 4442091 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4438991&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F05%2F30-years-out%2F If ever I’ve had a “But for the grace of God, there go I” occasion (even though I have problems with that expression) it would have to have been February 5, 1981 – thirty years ago today. At 11 p.m. that night, more than 150 police carried out simultaneous raids on four of Toronto’s most [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4438991 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:39:02 +0100 4438991 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4399759&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F25%2Fthe-shack-allegory-and-empathy-but-forgiveness%2F “I brought a book I think you’ll find interesting,” my cousin said as we sat down for lunch recently, handing me a paperback copy of The Shack by Wm. Paul Young. I will not suggest motives she might have had in giving me this book other than the fact that she knows, perhaps as much [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4399759 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:08:17 +0100 4399759 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4394687&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F25%2Fthe-shack-allegory-and-empathy-but-forgiveness%2F   “I brought a book I think you’ll find interesting,” my cousin said as we sat down for lunch recently, handing me a paperback copy of The Shack by Wm. Paul Young. I will not suggest motives she might have had in giving me this book other than the fact that she knows, perhaps as [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4394687 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:08:17 +0100 4394687 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4382923&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F21%2Fmichael-kimber-is-out-torontoist%2F A really great read from Torontoist: Michael Kimber Is Out. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4382923 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:41:40 +0100 4382923 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4361249&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F17%2Fthank-you-candy-crowley-and-state-of-the-union%2F “I think you might have bipolar disorder,” he (psychiatrist) said. “Oh, thank God,” I answered. Surprise registered on his face. “I don’t think I’ve ever had that reaction before.” “No, I am so relieved,” I said. “Now that we know what it is, we can fix it.” Andrea Ball (Statesman.com) – Jared Loughner and the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4361249 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:22:55 +0100 4361249 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4272496&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F20%2Fa-doggone-christmas-morning%2F It started off like any other Christmas morning.  My two sisters and I were up first, kneeling in front of the tree, keeping a respectful distance for our first assessments, but sliding in ever closer, checking the weight of a few parcels, seeing if there was anything we could guess.  We pointed out the missing [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4272496 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:28:49 +0100 4272496 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4266136&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F17%2Fa-simple-gesture-over-the-holidays-that-could-make-a-world-of-difference%2F   I know that I was not the only Canadian very proud a few years back when Parliament passed legislation designed to make it easier for generic pharmaceutical companies to ship life-saving AIDS medications, and others, to developing nations of the south. So it was rather shameful to learn that, so far, only one shipment [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4266136 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:49:11 +0100 4266136 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4259129&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F14%2Factivists-warmly-received-okay-met-with-mild-bemusement-during-very-cold-die-in-for-bill-c-393%2F It was such a cold walk down to Yonge-Dundas Square this morning I was glad to be able to walk the full block south from Gerrard to Gould Streets through the corridors of Jorgenson Hall at Ryerson University. I was dressed for the outdoors reminiscent of my childhood in Quebec.  Fluorescent red earmuffs, attached to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4259129 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:20:09 +0100 4259129 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4259130&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F13%2Fa-ps-chapter-11-and-my-chapter-1%2F A & P, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, is being ahem reorganized. The company’s Chapter 11 filing today is juxtaposed in my mind closer to Chapter 1 of my life. The biting cold wind of this mid-December day reminds me of the A & P of my childhood.  (You might have read a [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4259130 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:49:06 +0100 4259130 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4253397&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F12%2Fthe-re-activation-of-an-aids-activist%2F While no one could say that I had ever completely stopped my AIDS activism I have, I would suggest, limited myself in recent years to writing or speaking about it on a smaller scale. It was consistent, determined protests – some of which I was a part of – that led to government speeding up [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4253397 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:45:55 +0100 4253397 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4251234&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F11%2Fdefying-the-christmas-based-economy%2F Were it not for Christmas, we hear constantly, many retailers would not make it through a year.  The exploited workers of China, whom we have increasingly employed since local manufacturing jobs became of secondary concern to our finding cheap goods, now make most of our clothes and gadgets (luxury and otherwise).  Their jobs are secure [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4251234 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:25:24 +0100 4251234 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4245490&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F09%2Fdie-for-access-to-generic-aids-meds-in-the-poorest-of-countries-it-wont-kill-you%2F Over the lunch hour this coming Monday the Bill C-393 Student Coalition, along with members of AIDS ACTION NOW and other allies, will join in creative protest in support of vital legislation before Canada’s Parliament. Bill C-393 is designed to reform CAMR (Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime), the legislation passed back in the dying days [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4245490 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:37:35 +0100 4245490 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4241909&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F08%2Fya-had-to-know-id-have-a-true-john-lennon-story-of-my-own-didntcha%2F I just wouldn’t bet on it ever making it into The Complete History of Music. On the evening of December 8, 1980, a Monday, I had attended the regular weekly meeting of St. Catharines City Council in my capacity as a news reporter for a local radio station. I returned to the office, housed in [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4241909 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:06:53 +0100 4241909 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4241910&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F08%2Fmusic-therapy-after-which-you-may-need-some-without-the-music%2F I cannot remember a time when music was not a vital part of my life.  Music is in my genes, especially from my mother’s side of the family, with my grandparents having been matched up in the early 1920s as a violinist/fiddler being accompanied by his pianist.  What I wouldn’t give for a cell-phone video [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4241910 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:12:55 +0100 4241910 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4238094&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F07%2Fobservations-from-buckstars-coffee-shop%2F I’m home from picking up prescription refills to paint a story-picture.  Note to self (the umpteenth): always, always carry a pen and paper! Having dropped off written prescriptions for repeats of my head meds, I walk briskly in the fresh cold wind over to the Cabbagetown location of Buckstars to wait.  A grande Americano should [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4238094 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:20:20 +0100 4238094 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4233361&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F06%2Ffor-mark-dailey-a-tweet%2F RIP Mark Dailey – 1st hrd read’g v/o of film intros o’nite whl I @ undiscl. TO loctns; + incl’d in acct of my ’03 smash http://tiny.cc/a41ia (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4233361 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:26:43 +0100 4233361 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4233363&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F05%2Fmemories-revisited%2F Holiday stories are nothing if not repetitive. These memories crossed my mind again today so, after double-checking to see that I had covered mostly everything, I’m left only to re-post! From 13 December 2009, I give you Christmas church candles and Coca-Cola chuckles. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4233363 Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:03:05 +0100 4233363 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4230284&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F05%2Fmemories-revisited%2F Holiday stories are nothing if not repetitive. These memories crossed my mind again today so, after double-checking to see that I had covered mostly everything, I’m left only to re-post! From 13 December 2009, I give you Christmas church candles and Coca-Cola chuckles. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4230284 Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:03:05 +0100 4230284 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4229246&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F03%2Fthank-you-lpn-to-rn-bridge%2F I know I’ve been on worse lists! Top 50 Blogs About HIV and AIDS (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4229246 Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:40:39 +0100 4229246 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4225565&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F03%2Fthe-fear-factor%2F During a lunch meeting with friends today someone spoke of past states of generalized anxiety which professionals often tried, unsuccessfully, to pin down – fear of flying, fear of social situations, “What are you afraid of?” That didn’t work. Then, my friend recounted, while sitting with people she didn’t know she blurted out her frustrations [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4225565 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:39:30 +0100 4225565 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220414&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F01%2Fambulance-chasers-aside-world-aids-day-provides-an-important-focus%2F By “ambulance chasers” I mean media who wish they could report on the illness, the meds, a cure and some drama all in about 52 seconds.  And they try. This year, rather than run to the annual UNAIDS report on HIV prevalence (good news and bad news as usual), I invested some emotional energy in [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220414 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:32:00 +0100 4220414 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220416&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F01%2Fworld-aids-day-2010-by-aless-piper%2F Each writer in this series has generously given me permission to post their work. The views and experiences shared are their own. Where applicable, links will also be provided at the end of the piece. Tony Kushner wrote in the Playwright’s Notes for Act 2 of Angels in America – Perestroika that Harold Bloom translated [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220416 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:00:10 +0100 4220416 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220417&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F01%2Fworld-aids-day-2010-collected-stories-4-the-prequel-to-my-journey-with-aids-and-more-by-kenn-chaplin%2F These days I still only started to think about trying to get a meal in my stomach once an almost painful hunger came upon me, seemingly out of nowhere, on this occasion at about three in the afternoon. I had just been to Sunnybrook Hospital where I was part of a clinical trial combining AZT [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220417 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:16:44 +0100 4220417 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220418&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F01%2Fworld-aids-day-2010-stories-3-kim-and-alex-by-jpk%2F Each writer in this series has generously given me permission to post their work. The views and experiences shared are their own. Where applicable, links will also be provided at the end of the piece. The best thing that I can say about Kim at this point is that she blessed the world with her [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220418 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:13:47 +0100 4220418 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4214405&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F01%2Fworld-aids-day-2010-stories-1-excerpts-from-the-prologue-of-crooked-road-straight-the-awakening-of-aids-activist-linda-jordan-by-tina-a-brown%2F Each author in this series has generously given me permission to post their work. The views and experiences shared are their own. Where applicable, links will also be provided at the end of the piece. AIDS didn’t become important to me until somebody I knew died. I imagine that is also the case for most [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4214405 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:50:32 +0100 4214405 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4203281&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F25%2Fa-call-out-for-stories-yes-you%2F First of all, this is not a contest.  Every story will be published on my blog (and re-posted to Facebook & Twitter via links) in the order in which I receive them. You may send them to me within the body of an email, or by attaching a document, and I will post them.  I [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4203281 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 03:17:03 +0100 4203281 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4197295&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F24%2Fbalderson-cemetery-revisited%2F I like visiting cemeteries, at least on those occasions when I am not there in mourning.  ‘Twas ever thus, be it the Protestant cemetery two blocks from our church in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Elmwood Cemetery in  Perth where several Chaplins (and even an older, related “Chaplain”) are buried and, much more often recently, Scotch Line Cemetery on [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4197295 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:10:19 +0100 4197295 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4197296&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F23%2Ffor-betty-ann%2F   I’m the only one, I dare say, who can appreciate at this very moment – Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 04 04 06 01 EST – both the frustration and the ‘been punk’d’ feeling I have after experiencing countless “(Not Responding)” messages from any number of programs I’ve successively tried to employ in writing [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4197296 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:03:23 +0100 4197296 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4190427&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F20%2Fa-veritable-piece-of-music-history-heads-down-the-highway%2F The family piano is on its way to southern Ontario from Perth, having been wrapped in quilts with care this morning, under Mom’s watchful eye, and loaded into a moving van.  It is about to find another appreciative home at my sister’s where my young niece and nephew are at a good age to learn [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4190427 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:23:03 +0100 4190427 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4187025&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F19%2Fthe-magic-of-a-meeting%2F I am by habit, if not by nature, quite a loner. As an example I often recall the extraordinary lengths I went to in learning my way around London ahead of a trip there with a group of fellow high school students. Why? So I could go out on my own unencumbered by group decisions [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4187025 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:10:48 +0100 4187025 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4168144&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F15%2Fan-aids-day%2F I can’t remember who first coined the phrase (and whether he’s still alive), or where I heard it, but I’m having an “AIDS day” – not as bad as they used to be,  mind you, but unmistakable all the same. My stomach feels bloated, despite not having eaten anything solid since mid-morning, and the bathroom [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4168144 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:31:50 +0100 4168144 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4168145&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F15%2Ftown-crier-silenced%2F ‘The voice of Valleyfield’ has died and, while I hadn’t given him any thought for many, many years happening on to this story in The Gazette brought back great memories. Anyone of a certain age from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec will remember this man’s voice as he drove around town making paid announcements via loudspeakers on the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4168145 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:02:21 +0100 4168145 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4105940&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F26%2Fa-facebook-friend-writes-please-tell-the-story-behind-this-picture%2F Happy to do so, Barbara, particularly because I have so little to lose with this tale ever-imprinted on my Facebook history.  I’m not getting any younger, however,  so my memory may not be one hundred percent.  Halloween, preceded as it is a few days earlier by my birthday, prompted me this week to muse about [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4105940 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:31:00 +0100 4105940 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4027305&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F03%2Fa-stroke-of-spirit%2F Jill Bolte Taylor, author of “My Stroke of Insight” and featured in a popular TED lecture, was this week’s guest on CBC Radio’s Tapestry program. I still get goose-bumps listening to her story, in which she “experienced that absence of experience which becomes one of bliss” as I shared about a year-and-a-half or so ago. [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4027305 Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:42:12 +0100 4027305 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3942979&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F09%2F07%2Fhiv-and-friends%2F “HIV and friends” as in HIV and other diagnoses which have been visited upon me and/or HIV and how friends can, and do, help – with apologies to my favourite English teachers for lack of sentence structure. What physically ails me most are HIV and diabetes type deux. After-effects of the broken femur and wrist [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3942979 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:35:50 +0100 3942979 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3934591&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F09%2F05%2Ffirst-days-of-school%2F I know I’m not the only one to feel some sort of generalized angst about the first day of school – even though it was thirty years ago last May that I graduated college!  As Labour Day passes a temporary sense of dread settles over me.           Gault Elementary School (above [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3934591 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:29:00 +0100 3934591 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3891802&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F08%2F22%2Fa-streetcar-stop-reunion-brings-back-memories%2F The other night, my arms heavy with groceries, I heard my name being called at the corner of Yonge and Carlton. That’s a very busy corner so this is definitely a ‘small world’ story. He told me, as I didn’t immediately recognize him, that he was Pete Bailey from The Standard (in St. Catharines) and [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3891802 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:37:10 +0100 3891802 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3780516&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F07%2F22%2Ffussin-fessin-and-feelin-better%2F The drug holiday hasn’t been as long this time. I just hope, as my specialist said the first time, that I still have “horseshoes up (my) ass” (medical-speak for good fortune) with no irreversible consequences. No doubt there’s a reason my blogging hasn’t been as prolific as usual lately. I cracked open some fear and [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3780516 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:55:04 +0100 3780516 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3573892&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F17%2Fon-this-international-day-against-homophobia-and-trans-phobia%2F To Head Teacher/Principal wannabe Carl Glenn, who rarely missed an opportunity to taunt me, terrify me, pit me against his son and my other classmates; To the kids who teased me for the friends I chose; To those who often made the forty minute bus ride to and from high school each day so frightening; [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3573892 Mon, 17 May 2010 13:58:15 +0100 3573892 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3570024&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F17%2Fon-this-international-day-against-homophobia-and-trans-phobia%2F To Head Teacher/Principal wannabe Carl Glenn, who rarely missed an opportunity to taunt me, terrify me, pit me against his son and my other classmates; To the kids who teased me for the friends I chose; To those who made the forty minute bus ride to and from high school each day so frightening; To [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3570024 Mon, 17 May 2010 13:58:15 +0100 3570024 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3549521&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F09%2Fwhen-mothers-day-isnt-happy%2F Mom insisted that I send no Mother’s Day flowers this year.  I can’t blame her if she can’t look at the designated special day the same, not yet anyway.  The cruelty this year, in particular, stems from the fact that this second Sunday in May, May 9,  was the day in 2007 when Mom’s first-born, Craig, died of his [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3549521 Mon, 10 May 2010 01:00:32 +0100 3549521 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3519650&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F30%2Fit-was-seven-years-ago-today-in-the-wee-hours-of-the-morning%2F Chopin, Roman Polanski, and a cab “What a great film!” I thought. “No wonder Adrien Brody won the ‘Best Actor’ Oscar.” As I walked out of the Carlton I welcomed the freshness of the night air. I glanced at my watch. It wasn’t quite midnight. Heading east along Carlton Street, the music of Chopin still [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3519650 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:06:42 +0100 3519650 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3502808&cid=t_106499_93_f&fid=35707&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FHemodynamics%2F%7E3%2F3aREVeW6loY%2F1996-what-color-was-my-parachute.html I was looking through old files for something else, and found this. Since you're reading this blog, you know what finally happened. Math was hard, but I stopped letting that stop me. I bought an algebra book, re-learned algebra and trigonometry, took science classes, went to medical school. Apparently What Color Is Your Parachute? knew what it was talking about. Maybe.Also I had kind of forgotten how into REM I was back then.Whenever someone asks me what I’m up to these days, I say, “Oh, trying to figure out what I’m doing with my life.” Then they chuckle. Heh heh. They’ve been there.But were they ever really as desperate as I am now? Because I’ve turned not once, but twice to What Color Is Your Parachute? It’s maybe the most famous self-help book ever--so I must be in bad sh... hemodynamics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3502808 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:58:00 +0100 3502808 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3502952&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F24%2Fthe-happy-and-the-dreadfully-sad-of-april-24%2F Does anyone in Toronto know where I could get French-language greeting cards? Well, one more time, I had to mail an English birthday card to Craig’s partner, Claude.  Now he’s always up for anything that will improve his second-language skills but, as a gesture, I just think French-language cards for him would be nice. April [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3502952 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:07:38 +0100 3502952 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3490819&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F21%2Feasy-does-it%2F It was not for lack of Vitamin D, absorbed during a short photography walk yesterday, that I awoke before dawn today coming out of an unusually coherent dream and gasping for breath. I knew my blood glucose had crashed; no need to waste a test strip on this. (I had been fasting since [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3490819 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:56:01 +0100 3490819 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3457979&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F10%2Fself-forgiveness-even-when-it-seems-so-unnecessary%2F While I would acknowledge there are probably exceptional circumstances I am generally of the restorative justice point of view, as described by Correctional Service of Canada. The holiday weekend news that Graham James – variously described as “hockey predator Graham James”, “convicted pedophile Graham James”, etc. – had been pardoned for his repulsive crimes took a [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3457979 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:35:28 +0100 3457979 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3420714&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F29%2Fan-easter-i-wish-i-could-do-over%2F In my second year at college I hitchhiked from Niagara to Burlington, as I would do occasionally, just a few weeks before Easter. A cousin, her husband and their young family were happy to pamper me with good food and fun. On this particular weekend they also shared their enthusiasm with me about [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3420714 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:57:49 +0100 3420714 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3416245&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F28%2Fthe-infuriating-sins-of-the-fathers%2F As I walked up to the subway this morning I passed a Tamil-Canadian family crossing the street from St. James Town to attend Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church – so a confession is in order. I have received Communion from Jesuits there which, as a Protestant, I am not permitted to do. [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3416245 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:42:53 +0100 3416245 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3383026&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F19%2Fhow-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-having-no-score-for-the-sound-of-music-wedding-march%2F As I followed some suggestions, during a morning stroll through YouTube, after viewing an organist handle a Bach piece with flair I found another one with a story much like one I can share. Many years ago, I’ll bet it’s pushing forty years now, my mother was asked to play for a family friend’s wedding.  Mom [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3383026 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:03:00 +0100 3383026 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3374333&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F16%2Funearthing-one-of-my-early-newspaper-appearances%2F   After the cathartic experience here this morning of again recalling Craig’s struggles, in the early days of his ministry, I was remembering some of what was going on in my life 700 km away from Craig.  In the raucous days of an Ontario Human Rights Code amendment debate, giving gays and lesbians protection in the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3374333 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:02:00 +0100 3374333 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3366385&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F14%2Fthe-roof-over-my-head-a-touchstone-of-my-gratitude%2F A brief look at Kengi’s blog reminded me to take stock of how grateful I am to be living where I do, as I do, with rent geared-to-income. This spring marks the beginning of my nineteenth year in this apartment – I’ve had to do a couple rounds of finger counting just to come to believe [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3366385 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:26:33 +0100 3366385 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3363789&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F14%2F3115%2F When I used to deliver the long-defunct Montreal Star through the late afternoon streets in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield there was an elderly customer on East Park, who shall remain nameless lest her great-great-grandchildren read this, who would meet me at the door on pay day, in her bathrobe and slippers, often without her teeth in. Her accent [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3363789 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:14:31 +0100 3363789 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3363790&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F14%2Fblogging-about-being-blogged-about%2F I was quick to post this link to Facebook yesterday from a website in Princeton which featured an interview-by-email with me on the subject of blogging about HIV/AIDS. Shruti Kalra, the writer of the piece, first contacted me early in the year, wondering a few things about me and this blog, and I wasn’t long agreeing to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3363790 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:29:48 +0100 3363790 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3350607&cid=t_106499_158_f&fid=36018&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcaregiversbeacon.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F03%2F1965-slice-of-life.html Seniors, have you tried writing your life story? Or just short anecdotes or vignettes? Here is one from my blog at http://lifestorytelling.com. 1965 - A Slice of Life - Scandal and Me Open the mind's closet for 1965. I'm 13 years old, and this is the era of "Scandal and Me." Scandal was a black half-Arabian, half-thoroughbred mare. Scandal and I often stayed out on the trails in the snowy winters until after dark. I leaned down low over her neck, shining a flashlight on the paths. It was an adventure. It's 1965, and I'm in the 8th grade. A huge horse farm was built a few years ago across the corn field behind our house. For several years I've been working there after school and on Saturdays. In the 6th grade I started at $2 a day and now I'm up to $3. I give the money to my parents to he... The Caregiver's Beacon - Resources, Links, Ideas, News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3350607 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:52:00 +0100 3350607 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3251362&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F02%2F07%2Fthe-lead-story-is-their-own-newsroom%2F CTV Ottawa is, sadly, the lead story on its own, and every other, newscast around eastern Ontario today.  A massive fire early this morning destroyed the newsroom as well as the station’s extensive archives.  That is a particularly poignant loss as longtime news anchor, and public servant extraordinaire, Max Keeping retires in April after an [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3251362 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:05:00 +0100 3251362 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3231754&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F02%2F02%2Fa-major-breakthrough-in-the-still-mysterious-to-me-web-of-hivaids-research%2F I didn’t have the radio or television on Monday so I nearly missed this – what, to this layman anyway, has remained such a mystery since the early, crudest diagrams of the virus first appeared. I am still doing okay on protease inhibitors Prezista (and one of the originals Norvir) and a nucleoside (yes it’s a [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3231754 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:49:02 +0100 3231754 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3231756&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F02%2F01%2Fretirement-wishes-for-andy-barrie%2F It’s only right, I suppose, that someone – even Andy Barrie – who is fifteen years older than me and fifteen years younger than my mother would be retirement age. When he made it official today, however, it reminded me how ageless the medium of radio can make somebody – and, as the Globe and Mail [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3231756 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:35:25 +0100 3231756 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3231757&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F02%2F01%2F2975%2F So this afternoon a friend’s Facebook status update reads “Feelings, nothing more than feelings” to which I reply “Trying to forget my feelings of luououove…” 70s…Morris Albert…don’t tell me you weren’t there! So I get thinking that one of my songs from the 70s, thumb-drumming on my desk, was Andrew Gold’s “Thank You For Being A Friend” [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3231757 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:46:50 +0100 3231757 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3189345&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F01%2F20%2Fthe-seventies-certainly-werent-all-bad-r-i-p-lindsay-cullen%2F Yesterday I learned of the death, on New Year’s Eve, of one of my favourite high school teachers. A reporter from The Gleaner, the local small-town newspaper, contacted me when she saw that I had written a letter which mentioned Lindsay Cullen a while back. I was a student of his from approximately 1972 to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3189345 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:10:34 +0100 3189345 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3176080&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F01%2F14%2Fit-really-is-an-honour-just-to-be-nominated%2F A few days ago, the twelfth day or so of a miserable cold (which explains only my delay in posting) I received this email: Kenn, I just wanted to let you know that My Journey with AIDS has been nominated in the Health & Wellness category of the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards! This is a new, juried competition [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3176080 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:42:59 +0100 3176080 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3133770&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F12%2F30%2Fpost-christmas-pictures-from-perth-ontario-canada%2F (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3133770 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:14:37 +0100 3133770 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3129522&cid=t_106499_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F12%2F30%2Fwhich-terms-do-you-use-for-first-person-accounts-written-by-scientists-and-medical-doctors%2F I think first-person accounts — that is, acccounts about oneself and one’s relation to the world told in ‘I’-form, as opposed to accounts of ‘you’, ’he/she’ or ‘they’ — are fascinating. Such accounts tell something about the people who produce them and they also reveal much about their authors’ relations to others and the culture and environment they live in. In fact, one of my basic historiographical convictions is that even the concepts, theories and objects of science, technology and medicine are, at least to some extent, first-person accounts (’science as autobiography‘). First-person accounts appear in many forms, which you could call ‘genres’ (or ’sub-genres’), like &#8... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3129522 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:00:23 +0100 3129522 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3108516&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F12%2F20%2Fpictures-of-christmas-in-and-around-perth-lanark-cty-ontario%2F The chiming clock atop Perth Town Hall Maximilian’s on Gore Street East (a great menu with greater service!) Code’s Mill and the original Code family home overlooking beautiful Stewart Park The former Bottling Works (now condominiums) overlooking Stewart Park Entering Stewart Park from Code’s Mill Inn & Spa past former Bottling Works Code’s Mill now houses restaurants and boutiques and [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3108516 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:59:39 +0100 3108516 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3083168&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F12%2F13%2Fchristmas-church-candles-and-coca-cola-chuckles%2F As I look forward to hearing and singing the music of the Christmas season I think back to the break-neck pace we kept in the family at this time of year when I was a kid. This probably would have been the Sunday for our church’s candlelight service, or perhaps the 20th, and it was always [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3083168 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:24:56 +0100 3083168 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3023371&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2F23%2Fschlumbergeras-ability-to-lift-spirits%2F From my holiday letter of 1998: My Christmas cactus hasn’t bloomed this year. Alas, I don’t think I can attribute that to the strange weather. I “pruned” it last summer and I think I must have killed it, ironic given the fact that the fellow, from whose giant cactus I spliced it fifteen or twenty years [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3023371 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:18:13 +0100 3023371 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2984979&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2F11%2Fbringchange2mind-org%2F More than a few tears of understanding, and being understood, came to my eyes tonight as I watched NBC Nightly News. Brian Williams featured a report on an initiative of Glenn Close called Bring Change 2 mind.  Ms. Close and her sister Jessie, who is bipolar, were part of an amazing public service announcement shot at [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2984979 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:37:12 +0100 2984979 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2934914&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F10%2F27%2Fa-milestone%2F On my facebook page this morning I wrote, “Kenn Chaplin is very grateful for all the 50th birthday greetings and to have reached such a milestone without doing myself too much irreparable harm.” It could have been much different. As a teenager I thought I wouldn’t live to see forty, nor would I want to. When diagnosed with [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2934914 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:39:13 +0100 2934914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2902929&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F10%2F15%2F1909-picture-only-tells-a-fraction-of-the-story%2F Thomas Butler was born in Bathurst, Lanark County, Ontario in 1826, one of nine children of 1819-1820 Irish immigrants John Butler and Alice Warren. While six of his siblings married Warren cousins, in 1852 Thomas Butler married Dorcas Radford, born in 1835, also in Bathurst Township. That’s their picture, taken in 1909! According to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2902929 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:50:53 +0100 2902929 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2899152&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F10%2F15%2F1909-picture-only-tells-a-fraction-of-the-story%2F Thomas Butler was born in Bathurst, Lanark County, Ontario in 1826, one of nine children of 1819-1820 Irish immigrants John Butler and Alice Warren. In 1852 he married Dorcas Radford, born in 1835, also in Bathurst Township. That’s their picture, taken in 1909! According to a 1974 family history Barker and Warren Families from [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2899152 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:50:53 +0100 2899152 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2846584&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F29%2Fice-cream-it-melts-out-in-the-open%2F With the encouragement of Eileen (see her comment after the original “Ice Cream” post) I have edited the story down to the following: Ice cream Two of my favorite places for ice cream were about one hundred-fifty miles apart – one in Valleyfield, Québec, the other in Glen Tay, Ontario where Dad came from and not far [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2846584 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:54:25 +0100 2846584 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2839136&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F28%2Fice-cream%2F (second draft) Ice cream There didn’t need to be a special occasion for us to go for ice cream when I was a kid. The very act of going was a special occasion. Two shops stand out in my memory, one in Valleyfield, Québec where we lived, the other in Glen Tay, Ontario where Dad [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2839136 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:53:05 +0100 2839136 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2832365&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F24%2Fwhat-makes-a-good-teacher%2F Another victim of my elementary school teacher-as-nemesis, Carl Glenn, has been in contact with me and I can’t describe the sense of validation I feel. It’s like having a friend in my corner, even if we were years apart. (I am also hoping he can jog a few memories about some of the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2832365 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:27:36 +0100 2832365 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2782278&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F10%2Fprobably-more-than-six-degrees-of-separation%2F In a precedent-setting case,a Quebec judge has sentenced a serial drunk driver to life in prison. Aside from the obvious ‘but for the grace of God, there go I’ the court house in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec – where sentencing took place on Wednesday – faces the east side of a park which my very first place of [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2782278 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:43:52 +0100 2782278 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2782279&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F10%2Fto-bipolar-beat%2F Re: Which Came First – Substance Abuse or Bipolar Disorder? I’m so happy to have come across this site, particularly this article, as I checked out different areas of my news reader. I’ve been in and out of recovery (from alcohol abuse mostly) for about 20 years, now just two-and-a-quarter years sober again. Not too long before [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2782279 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:47:51 +0100 2782279 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2782280&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F10%2Fautumn-writing-group%2F Following three successful summer workshops seventeen participants, including facilitators Linda Dawn and me, have signed up for the fall writing group starting 15 September and continuing most Tuesdays thereafter through 8 December from 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. You do not need to have attended the workshops to join us nor are you required to commit [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2782280 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:29:31 +0100 2782280 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2772685&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F06%2Fspiritus-contra-spiritum-an-old-favourite%2F Even though I related to them both in isolation, until today I had never made a personal connection between “spiritus contra spiritum” and one of my favourite psalms. It’s as if I am the last to find out (in my agnostic theist sort of way). (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2772685 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:31:29 +0100 2772685 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2758052&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F01%2Fback-to-school-jitters-terror-call-it-what-you-may%2F Classes don’t resume until after Labour Day, and that doesn’t affect me any more, but the first of September has a Labour Day feel to it and I can’t help thinking about how privately frightening the first day back always seemed.  I say ‘privately’ because I had this 1960s idea that my parents would not [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2758052 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:21:39 +0100 2758052 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2741562&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F08%2F27%2Fyou-seem-like-a-good-fit-for-the-therapy-group-cue-pin-drop%2F During an intake interview for a therapy group I was stopped cold by the question, “Do you have a best friend?” This was asked in the context of establishing what existing supports I had, past relationships, etc. Perfectly understandable. I was absolutely stuck to name someone and, equally telling perhaps, I was very surprised [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2741562 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:49:06 +0100 2741562 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2734219&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F08%2F26%2Ffacebook-has-distracted-me-away-from-blogging%2F Ted Kennedy Tribute: 2008 DNC Convention in Denver Over the din of commentators, warming their robotic hands against the barely dead Ted Kennedy, and please read this report on his pioneering political fights against AIDS, I have been trying to remember the 1980s with a little more precision than is usually called for. See thanks to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2734219 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:10:08 +0100 2734219 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2678823&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F08%2F06%2F2457%2F This was a therapy day so, as the subject of self-love came up, I did a search for Jai Michael Josephs’ song “I Love Myself the Way I Am”, which was included on an early Louise Hay tape I bought in the late 1980s. I’ll paste the lyrics below the YouTube recording by Steve [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2678823 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:55:59 +0100 2678823 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2641468&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F26%2F2451%2F Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have you ever seen the rain? I remember Craig had this on a 45 rpm when we were teenagers. While I became too tall for his hand-me-down clothes I was always happy if he passed along, or at least shared, his records! (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2641468 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:44:43 +0100 2641468 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2626228&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F21%2Fraging-like-our-lives-depend-on-it-because-they-do%2F The vote, 52-1, was not even close but Manhattan New York State Senator Tom Duane took no chances after rival Republicans killed two of his bills earlier in the day. He unleashed this impassioned speech, with long pauses and end-of-phrase shouts – in the state legislature in Albany, speaking in favour of capping subsidized [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2626228 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:58:41 +0100 2626228 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2606188&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F16%2F2404%2F The successful launch (finally) of the latest Shuttle astronauts comes on the eve of a very significant date in the American space program. Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. About three months shy of my tenth birthday, between swims and bonfires at my aunt and uncle’s rental cottages [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2606188 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:20:51 +0100 2606188 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2598443&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F13%2Fjohn-marks-reminds-me-of-my-struggles-with-faith-and-that-we-dont-have-to-be-right%2F Here’s a recent video of author John Marks being interviewed on The Bully Pulpit. It’s a great way (if you’ll take the 45 minutes or so to watch) to get a sense of where he’s coming from in his book and why I was so fascinated by it. The Bully! Pulpit Show: John Marks from [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2598443 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:55:00 +0100 2598443 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2512727&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F23%2Fbonne-fete-quebec-401-years-old%2F It used to be called la Fête de Saint Jean-Baptiste, back when the people of Québec were much more loyal to the Roman Catholic Church, John the Baptist being the province’s patron saint. As a youngster, I’d guess six years old or less, I remember seeing a lot of nuns around (Salaberry-de-) Valleyfield, dressed in the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2512727 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:52:52 +0100 2512727 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473570&cid=t_106499_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F06%2F13%2Fhappy-100th-mental-health-america%2F Mental Health America (the singer formerly known as the National Mental Health Association) turned 100 this year, and we’d like to wish them a Happy Birthday. They trace their roots back to 1909 and Clifford W. Beers: We began our work in 1909 when Clifford W. Beers, a young businessman who struggled with a mental illness and shared his story with the world in his autobiography “A Mind That Found Itself,” created a national citizens’ group to promote mental health and improve conditions for children and adults living with these health problems. It was a revolutionary act and attracted prominent national leaders of the time, including the philosopher William James and the Rockefeller family. The modern NMHA organization wasn’t formed until 1950, and in that time has help... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473570 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:10:30 +0100 2473570 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2474056&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F13%2Fbread-passed-along-for-my-journey%2F One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice—- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2474056 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:44:15 +0100 2474056 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2464359&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F05%2Fpride%2F CP24 asks “What does Pride mean to you?” Pride this year celebrates the 40th anniversary of what most consider to be the biggest spark to the gay rights movement, the Stonewall Riots in New York. I was too young for that to have meant anything to me at the time but I well remember Toronto’s [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2464359 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:31:17 +0100 2464359 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2458423&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F05%2Fpride%2F CP24 asks “What does Pride mean to you?” Pride this year celebrates the 40th anniversary of what most consider to be the biggest spark to the gay rights movement, the Stonewall Riots in New York. I was too young for that to have meant anything to me at the time but I well remember Toronto’s [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2458423 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:31:17 +0100 2458423 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2442531&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F05%2F24%2Fits-been-twenty-years%2F Because I do not know the exact date in May this seems as good a time as any to mark the twentieth anniversary of my HIV-positive diagnosis. It was March of 1990 when I received definitive word at which time suspicious blood samples from the previous May were tested for HIV specifically and they were also [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2442531 Mon, 25 May 2009 02:49:06 +0100 2442531 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2442902&cid=t_106499_158_f&fid=36018&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcaregiversbeacon.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2F81-year-old-youtuber-over-5000-5-star.html Peter Zimmer, an 81 year old widower, of AskGeriatric.com has had over 2 million visitors to his youtube channel.He provides a huge variety of helpful information for senior citizens, as well as telling his life story on videos. Featured in many international magazines, such as Time Magazine, he is an incredible example of someone born during the "Paper Generation" who has joined the "Online Generation." (Source: The Caregiver's Beacon - Resources, Links, Ideas, News) The Caregiver's Beacon - Resources, Links, Ideas, News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2442902 Sun, 24 May 2009 20:55:00 +0100 2442902 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2381058&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F04%2F30%2Fcall-it-h1n1-influenza-virus-or-swine-flu-im-staying-in-tonight%2F With the World Health Organization (WHO) listing swine flu as a 5 (on a scale of 6) - as former Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman famously barked, “Who the hell is WHO?” - this public health watch reminds some of us, and some more than others, of SARS which was ravaging Toronto six years ago. In fact [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2381058 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:46:46 +0100 2381058 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2349479&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F04%2F19%2Fa-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way%2F …to church this morning. I was awake in plenty of time, well before the alarm, and decided to walk the distance from my place here in the heart of the co-op cluster of Cabbagetown West to Trinity-St. Paul’s Church on Bloor, west of Spadina. For a little fuel I stopped at the Tim Horton’s at [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2349479 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:00:17 +0100 2349479 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2298743&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F03%2F27%2Fthe-ride-home%2F I may add more to this story as details come back to me. As I told a friend tonight, these rides home all seemed alike to me so it’s difficult to recall specific details of any one ride. It just boils down to a large chunk of bad memories during, as adults called [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2298743 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:22:58 +0100 2298743 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2267789&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F03%2F14%2Fwatch-what-you-think%2F A friend and I were talking recently about the CBC’s report on Jill Bolte Taylor (featured in the video) which, in turn, reminded me of an episode over a period of months back in the early ’90s tentatively identifed and diagnosed as aseptic meningitis. This was a couple of years after I tested HIV-positive [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2267789 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:00:07 +0100 2267789 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2241110&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F03%2F07%2Fim-back-here%2F I am very grateful to have indefinite use of a friend’s old laptop. It is so very good to be back as I confess that I did not make very good use of computers available to me elsewhere. It is difficult to quantify what you have missed during the absence, and presumptuous of me to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2241110 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:54:53 +0100 2241110 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2232638&cid=t_106499_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F03%2F04%2Fbiodigital-lives-making-consuming-and-archiving-the-lives-of-technoscience%2F One of the potentially most interesting workshop titles I’ve seen announced so far this year is ’Biodigital lives: making, consuming and archiving the lives of technoscience’. The meeting — convened by Kate O’Riordan (Sussex) and Adrian Mackenzie (Lancaster) and hosted by the Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen), the Centre for Material Digital Culture and the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research at the University of Sussex on 14 July — will “examine issues and questions about digital and biodigital life, lives and identities framed by biosciences, contemporary media and biopolitical cultures”: From the lives of scientists to the technologisation of life, ‘Biodigital lives’ will ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2232638 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:38:12 +0100 2232638 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2182578&cid=t_106499_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F02%2F13%2Fbiomedical-memoirs%2F Although I don’t like Twitter, I must admit that it is an interesting ego-document genre. A written trace of daily life — a publicly available diary, easily written, easily forgotten. Which made me think about the memoir genre, which is more difficult to write and less easily forgotten. Gore Vidal defined memoir as a story of “how one remembers one’s own life” in contrast to autobiography, which is “history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked” (from his own memoir, Palimpsest, 1995). Memoirs loomed large in 19th and early 20th century libraries and book stores. Then they almost disappeared. But now, after decades of oblivion, the memoir is an increasingly popular genre again. There are all kinds of memoirs, of course, but this ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2182578 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:26:10 +0100 2182578 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2033310&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F12%2F12%2Fcomputus-interruptus-part-deux%2F My computer woes continue but I am getting used to the necessary changes (taking the elevator to the computer centre just off the front lobby of my building, for example. While I try to look presentable it need not be a fashion show.) To add insult to injury the web-based email which is associated with [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2033310 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:46:24 +0100 2033310 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1975263&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F20%2Fcomputus-interruptus%2F For several weeks now I have been without my computer, a laptop, because its screen is apparently dying. I’m without the funds right now to either repair or replace it and so am relying on public computers for the picking up of email. Of course I can also write my blog but I [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1975263 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:36:01 +0100 1975263 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1914741&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F28%2Fmedical-update-the-news-is-great%2F My CD-4 count (an indicator of immune system health) has doubled to 520 and my viral load (which detects the level of HIV in my cells) has dropped precipitously from 125,000 to just 271.  Notwithstanding the ultimate goal is “undetectable” this is a major leap towards that.  My diabetes, too, is under control and I [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1914741 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:38:52 +0100 1914741 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1853674&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F05%2F1871%2F As someone with Bipolar II disorder, when I saw something on the CBC about this guy I went looking for one of his routines from the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. It gave me plenty of laughs!        (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1853674 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:02:01 +0100 1853674 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1853676&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F05%2Fmedical-update-minimal-side-effects-so-far%2F It hasn’t been too long since I checked in about my health but, seeing as that was kind of a new beginning, I thought I would report that all is going well - at least as far as I know. I’ll get the results of my blood work-up in a couple of weeks. [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1853676 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:46:17 +0100 1853676 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1754808&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F09%2F02%2Fmedical-update-my-16-month-holiday-is-over%2F I am back on meds to do battle with HIV. (Don’t worry Medic-Alert, I’ll be emailing you soon.) With the help of a lot of insulin, steadily increased since I started it July 17, my blood glucose levels are well enough in control that my doctor told me today that “We’re ready” or “It’s time” [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1754808 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:27:16 +0100 1754808 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1750668&cid=t_106499_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F379818946%2F Over the last few weeks I have been reading Recollections of My Life, the impressive autobiography by Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934), one the founders of modern neuroscience. I will provide more context on his work and the book when I have the time today or tomorrow, let me now share some of the quotes I have enjoyed the most: - (on his traits of character): a profound belief in the sovereign will; faith in work; the conviction that a persevering and deliberate effort is capable of moulding and organizing everything, from the muscle to the brain, making up the deficiencies of nature and even overcoming the mischances of character-the most difficult thing in life. - "...I am a fervent adept of the religion of facts. It has been said innumerable times, and I have also repeated it,... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1750668 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:22:01 +0100 1750668 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1639279&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F18%2Fmy-diabetes-journey-has-moved-on-to-insulin%2F It was no surprise when, after reviewing my latest blood glucose monitor readings, my HIV specialist prescribed insulin injections. (He’s been working on me about this.) Diet was not doing enough and the pills could only do so much for so long (approximately five years). I had already been to a diabetes [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1639279 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:47:36 +0100 1639279 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1637845&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F18%2Fmy-diabetes-journey-has-moved-on-to-insulin%2F It was no surprise when, after reviewing my latest blood glucose monitor readings, my HIV specialist prescribed insulin injections. (He’s been working on me about this.) Diet was not doing enough and the pills could only do so much for so long (approximately five years). I had already been to a diabetes [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1637845 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:12:20 +0100 1637845 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1543402&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F25%2Fbreakdown-canadas-mental-health-crisis%2F This article on addiction and mental illness is just one in a Globe and Mail series this week.  It is a revealing mix of personal stories and professional observations with an emphasis on breaking through the stigma surrounding those who are impacted and the various manifestations of illness.     [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1543402 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:36:25 +0100 1543402 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1522256&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F16%2Fthe-green-piano%2F The cottage was simple, primitive by modern standards, but my memories of it are as warm as a favourite sweater. “Hillcrest” belonged to my Auntie Dot and Uncle Homer who owned and operated a cluster of weekly housekeeping cottages on Big Rideau Lake collectively known as “Homer’s Haven”.  There was the cottage over the boat-house, “Rideau”, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1522256 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:21:09 +0100 1522256 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1475463&cid=t_106499_158_f&fid=36018&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcaregiversbeacon.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fwhat-is-it-like-to-be-108-years-old.html The video below features Australian Olive O'Riley, now 108, who went back to visit her childhood home in 2004. She was born in 1899 in the heart of Australia in Broken Hill. Her visit was recorded in the video below. She is known as the oldest blogger on the internet. You can visit her website at All About Olive.Her friend, Mike Rubbo, assists her with the blog and makes the videos. The entire video All About Olive is available for purchase at Ronin Films . (Source: The Caregiver's Beacon - Resources, Links, Ideas, News) The Caregiver's Beacon - Resources, Links, Ideas, News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1475463 Wed, 28 May 2008 17:51:00 +0100 1475463 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1463874&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.files.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F11-every-sperm-is-sacred.m4a Jim Loney needs no more effective publicist, for the broad spectrum of social justice issues he cares about so much, as long as the Roman Catholic Church and ‘her’ operatives carry his water and are so hung up about his sexual orientation.  Last week Jim gave a characteristically impassioned speech at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre after the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1463874 Fri, 23 May 2008 04:01:37 +0100 1463874 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1449406&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F16%2Fjim-loney-receives-chaplin-memorial-award-addresses-utc-convocation%2F Further to my description of some of the events at last week’s Convocation of McGill’s United Theological College, when Craig’s Memorial Award was presented for the first time, click here for the inspiring convocation address of the recipient - Jim Loney of Christian Peacemaker Teams. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1449406 Fri, 16 May 2008 16:05:33 +0100 1449406 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1439677&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F13%2Fmeanwhile-in-toronto%2F While I was in Montreal last week the anthology containing two of my stories was released in Toronto. Still Here: A Post-Cocktail AIDS Anthology OHTN - The Ontario HIV Treatment Network - acts as a collaborative network of people living with HIV/AIDS, health care providers, consumers, researchers, community-based organizations and government policy relating to the care [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1439677 Tue, 13 May 2008 16:05:36 +0100 1439677 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1434552&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F09%2Fcraigs-death-one-year-later%2F Friday It was one year ago today (May 9), while my sister Lynn and Craig’s partner Claude slipped out for a bite of lunch, that Craig took his leave from us in his Montreal hospital room. This has been an amazing week for Mom, Claude and me as the inaugural presentation of the Chaplin Memorial Award was [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1434552 Sun, 11 May 2008 19:21:48 +0100 1434552 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1432583&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F09%2Fcraigs-death-one-year-later%2F It was one year ago today, while my sister Lynn and Craig’s partner Claude slipped out for a bite of lunch, that Craig took his leave from us in his Montreal hospital room. This has been an amazing week for Mom, Claude and me as the inaugural presentation of the Chaplin Memorial Award was made at [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1432583 Fri, 09 May 2008 22:32:06 +0100 1432583 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1426544&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F07%2Fa-day-of-firsts%2F This afternoon, in a Toronto hotel ballroom, the anthology containing two of my short stories, will be released at a wine and cheese party.  I will not be there as I am in Montreal for another significant event - the inaugural presentation of Craig`s memorial award.  It is a lovely day and Mom, Claude and [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1426544 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:25:27 +0100 1426544 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1420504&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F05%2Fdays-of-memories-and-reflection%2F - I’m off to surround myself in memories of Craig. It’s a beautiful, sunny spring morning although the forecast calls for rain in Montreal mid-week. Will report in again Friday, if not before. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1420504 Mon, 05 May 2008 11:57:26 +0100 1420504 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1417886&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F02%2Fat-least-im-feeling-something%2F On this day last year, one week before Craig’s death, I was very grateful for all the messages of support I had received. Now, in 2008, I am anticipating (that would be a neutral enough verb, yes?) being in Montréal again, this time to celebrate Craig’s legacy as the award in his name is presented, for [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1417886 Sat, 03 May 2008 03:49:48 +0100 1417886 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1409786&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F30%2Ffive-years-ago-today-my-relationship-with-taxis-changed%2F Although I didn’t write this until much later, it was April 30, 2003 when the mishap took place. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1409786 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:21:37 +0100 1409786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1408289&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F29%2Fshaking-my-fist-at-diabetes%2F The point was driven home today that diabetes is a bigger threat to me right now than nineteen years of HIV/AIDS. I’ve heard it before and frankly, despite taking blood glucose-lowering medications, I just haven’t managed to get the crucial numbers under control.  Things went off the rails this time last year, with Craig’s accident and death, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1408289 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:00:28 +0100 1408289 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1400703&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F25%2Fwas-just-thinking-about-craig%2F …and I thought I’d re-post this. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1400703 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:19:23 +0100 1400703 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1396276&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F24%2Fstill-here-a-post-cocktail-aids-anthology%2F Mt. Sinai Hospital I will be out of town so I’ll miss this, unfortunately, but here’s the information: Life Rattle Press is pleased to invite you to a reception celebrating the publication of STILL HERE: A POST-COCKTAIL AIDS ANTHOLOGY Mount Sinai Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry, The 2008 Narrative Matters Conference: Storying Our World, Ontario HIV [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1396276 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:57:53 +0100 1396276 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1395156&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F24%2Fa-year%2F It was one year ago today, April 24, that my brother Craig fell, outside his home in Montreal, and suffered severe brain trauma.  He died the following May 9, four days shy of his fifty-second birthday. We’ll be honouring his memory closer to that day. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1395156 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:22:22 +0100 1395156 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1380570&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F17%2Fjohn-marks-reminds-me-of-my-struggles-with-faith-and-that-we-dont-have-to-be-right%2F Reasons to Believe: One Man’s Journey Among the Evangelicals and the Faith He Left Behind Browse Inside this book Get this for your site A little while ago I bought this book, by John Marks, that I’d heard about while clicking around TV, the subject matter of which resonated strongly with me. (Here’s a fair review.) Marks, a former [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1380570 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:14:12 +0100 1380570 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1338073&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F30%2Fa-bit-of-my-reality%2F For the past ten days or so I’ve been sick with an antibiotics-required cold (sinuses, chest, the works).  It’s the third or fourth of the winter.  Oh wait, it’s now spring.  Thank goodness Mom didn’t catch it when I visited her Easter weekend. I don’t feel like talking to people just for the sake of reaching out.  Besides, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1338073 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:55:51 +0100 1338073 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1307761&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F14%2Fwhy-i-am-voting-for-the-greens-chris-tindal-on-monday%2F I’ve been asked lately, particularly by members of the NDP, why I have switched to the Toronto Centre Greens after many years as an active New Democrat for whom I even considered running this time last year. Recent polls show many others, some of whom I have mingled with at Green Party campaign functions recently, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1307761 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:05:58 +0100 1307761 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1304983&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F14%2Fwhy-i-am-voting-for-the-greens-chris-tindal-on-monday%2F I’ve been asked lately, particularly by members of the NDP, why I have switched to the Greens after many years as - I even considered running for them this time last year - an active New Democrat. Recent polls show many others, some of whom I have mingled with at Green Party campaign functions recently, might well [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1304983 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:50:22 +0100 1304983 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1236246&cid=t_106499_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F15%2Fone-year-on-im-reminded-of-scuttled-mothers-day-plans-and-the-sad-reason-why%2F Around this time last year, my siblings and I were excitedly planning a Mother’s Day gift.  Today I learned that the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Director of Development Operations will be leaving that post next week.  I wrote him a brief email wishing him well and letting him know how the Mother’s Day plans last [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1236246 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:27:11 +0100 1236246