A small, nondescript headache. An over-all tingling sensation. Achy joints and a general ‘something doesn’t feel right’ mood. After all these years, you’d think I would know these are my pre-cursors to developing a fever. Nope, not me. These feelings are followed by picturing various fruit juices (which I’m not…

As hard-headed and determined as I think I am, it’s always a surprise to find out that may not be the way I appear in public! The one trying to make one trip with arms loaded, the one used to grabbing things from a top shelf for somebody, the one…

Time marched on…more infections, more antibiotics, more life. I read everything I could get my hands on about this PKD. Computers weren’t as available so it was a lot of footwork with even more dead ends. I was persistent and determined to get as much information as possible. Knowledge to me…

This is a wonderful way to make a fellow human feel good! Selfishly, it will make you feel the same. I passed a man walking on a back road today and we nodded and smiled. On my trip back, I slowed, kind of stuck my head out the window of…

Staring wide-eyed at each other in sheer shock, standing in a dark parking lot with the cold drizzle of the rain blowing across my sister and myself is a memory I’ll never forget. It was like a really bad dream.  I remember hugging my friend later and whispering in her…

ESRD. End Stage Renal Disease. Sounds ominous, even final. How about ESD? End Stage Death. Now, that really sounds final. This is a given in all our lives people. Whether it be accidental, natural causes, or the unwitting, non-watcher of horror flicks jaunting off into the dark forest with an ax murderer clearly on…

It’s an odd experience when you think you’re having the obligatory mid-life crisis (20 years late), but you are the happiest you’ve ever been. Especially when the crisis starts the realization of your own personal mortality which, in most cases, makes people panic. It’s had the opposite effect on this…

First off, it’s highly embarrassing to write about myself! Introduction-wise that is. Alas, in her infinite wisdom, my lovely, albeit insistent, editor demands it of me. I’ll give it a shot and try not to sound so ‘cookie-cutter’ because THAT is what I’m most definitely not. At best, you can call me quirky or quirky-ish. Like…