I wish her good luck and glad you have a good time planned with her prior to the procedure she's lucky to get. My kiddo is researching neuroscience as a career. The last time I took a course a few years back the textbooks couldn't keep up with the science. I wonder how it will change in the next 10, 20 years. Maybe that will be a common procedure done by AI by then
Thank you so much Spunkie. We are home now, and the brain surgery was an incredible success!! I'm not exaggerating when I say it was like witnessing a miracle. We went into recovery, they pulled back the curtain, and my mom was lying there holding a cup of water in her right hand, totally steady, with a huge smile on her face. My sister and I yelled out in glee and danced, lol. I was literally feeding my mom before the surgery because she couldn't keep her hand steady enough to do it herself. After, we filmed her eating a couscous salad without spilling a single grain.
It was absolutely stunning that a procedure could so effectively and quickly change a life like that. They did the right side this time. The left hand will be fixed in about a year. But man, even with one hand now able to take on fine movements, her life is so much improved, I am beside myself with happiness for my amazing mother!! And that doctor who developed this incredible new surgery, and who also performed it... as far as I'm concerned, he deserves a Nobel prize.
Also, Sunnybrook is an incredible hospital. I've never seen anything like it. It reminded me of those hospitals in the TV hospital dramas, where they have the best of the best.
Finally, I found the people of Toronto to be completely amazing. Everyone was so nice, and they have a liveliness to them that you don't really find in Vancouver, where everyone is arguably too chill.
But the traffic was fucking appalling, lol. And the air there really fucked me up. It wasn't hot, but there is a disgusting humidity and heaviness to the air, it actually kind of messed up my whole system in a way,, like it made me swell up, clammy.... plus my hair hated it, haha. I missed the Vancouver air badly the whole time I was there.
I wish her good luck and glad you have a good time planned with her prior to the procedure she's lucky to get. My kiddo is researching neuroscience as a career. The last time I took a course a few years back the textbooks couldn't keep up with the science. I wonder how it will change in the next 10, 20 years. Maybe that will be a common procedure done by AI by then
Thank you so much Spunkie. We are home now, and the brain surgery was an incredible success!!I'm not exaggerating when I say it was like witnessing a miracle. We went into recovery, they pulled back the curtain, and my mom was lying there holding a cup of water in her right hand, totally steady, with a huge smile on her face. My sister and I yelled out in glee and danced, lol. I was literally feeding my mom before the surgery because she couldn't keep her hand steady enough to do it herself. After, we filmed her eating a couscous salad without spilling a single grain.
It was absolutely stunning that a procedure could so effectively and quickly change a life like that. They did the right side this time. The left hand will be fixed in about a year. But man, even with one hand now able to take on fine movements, her life is so much improved, I am beside myself with happiness for my amazing mother!! And that doctor who developed this incredible new surgery, and who also performed it... as far as I'm concerned, he deserves a Nobel prize.
Also, Sunnybrook is an incredible hospital. I've never seen anything like it. It reminded me of those hospitals in the TV hospital dramas, where they have the best of the best.
Finally, I found the people of Toronto to be completely amazing. Everyone was so nice, and they have a liveliness to them that you don't really find in Vancouver, where everyone is arguably too chill.
But the traffic was fucking appalling, lol. And the air there really fucked me up. It wasn't hot, but there is a disgusting humidity and heaviness to the air, it actually kind of messed up my whole system in a way,, like it made me swell up, clammy.... plus my hair hated it, haha. I missed the Vancouver air badly the whole time I was there.
That is truly amazing! I am so happy for your mom! This is life changing.
People driving me fucking crazy giving me their "unsolicited advice"
People who have all the answers to all the fucking questions. SHUT THE FUCK UP!! I didn't ask for your "expert opinion"!!!
Carry on
The occurrences of unsolicited advice forrrrr sure ramped-up once I became a father.
the utter condescension treating my generation of dads like the my dad's generation is annoying af. "are you babysitting tonight?". "no, they're my kids, I'm just being a dad. wife and I do 50% each (the stuff that is possible for a dad to do, obvioiusly)".
Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall
I was out at a karaoke 🎤 event at Soul Foods Coffee in Redmond Washington, USA on the evening of 6.20.25. It was a pretty good event. Interesting songs were picked, & performed. Not everyone was 100% the best but the audience was accommodating, knew how to enjoy themselves.
Things I just don't think happened 20-30 years ago
I leave my house and go to Walgreens. I walk up to the pharmacy window to get a prescription. The girl looks at me and says, "You are going to have to come back in an hour, I'm going to lunch." And she turned around and walked away. This was at 6:45 in the evening.
Take me piece by piece..... Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
A simple echocardiagram on my heart today. An echo should be fucking painless, right? Wrong!!!
3 jabs of the fucking needle to finally get an IV GOING. The IV that I was told I wasn't going to need.
Then having her jab the device they use all over the left side of my chest. The side of my body where they previously destroyed my sternum, brachial plexus, and ulnar, during heart surgery.
A simple exam today, was nothing but fucking pain.
Take me piece by piece..... Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
So I've been in my current apartment for 19 years now. It's ok, but it is so outdated and kinda small (about 650 square feet). Really nice view and I like the location a a.lot I Just want something a little bigger and more modern. All the modern apartments in my complex have a nice kitchen. Mine is so old it's just "falling apart". Walls definitely need repainting. Carpet is about 20 years old, I don't even have a dishwasher. So I'm nit renewing it and was pleasantly surprised i got accepted for another apartment. It's a little bigger and more modern. It's in another town but got decent reviews and the model at least seemed nice.
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
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Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
BAD news about your hair =LOL
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
4 Years Since 'Backspacer' Won Conservation International's "Great Sea Turtle Race" (April 24th, 2013)
Backspacer = The Turtle Album
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
I leave my house and go to Walgreens. I walk up to the pharmacy window to get a prescription. The girl looks at me and says, "You are going to have to come back in an hour, I'm going to lunch." And she turned around and walked away. This was at 6:45 in the evening.
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
An echo should be fucking painless, right?
Wrong!!!
3 jabs of the fucking needle to finally get an IV GOING. The IV that I was told I wasn't going to need.
Then having her jab the device they use all over the left side of my chest. The side of my body where they previously destroyed my sternum, brachial plexus, and ulnar, during heart surgery.
A simple exam today, was nothing but fucking pain.
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
So make sure you spend as much time as possible, on the internet, arguing politics with complete strangers.
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....