My Motorcycle Injuries

                          The Red Sox won the World Series last night. I got home from the evening church service in time to watch the game. I missed roughly 15 games out of 162 during the regular season, and I caught every game of the postseason. Yeah, I love the game and the team. We celebrated a little last night, but things are quieter at home now. My wife and my daughter have gone to work and I’m here alone getting some work done with MLBN on the TV. It’s been a fun season and the playoffs, along with the World Series, were all well played. Way to go Sox! A little while ago I left for a few minutes to make a deposit at the bank for the church. When I returned I noticed that the TV was on with World Series talk blaring loud and clear within the house. The unusual thing about this was that I never leave the TV on when I leave the house since the accident. I wrote about this once several entries ago within this blog....

Are you old enough to remember the days when FM radio guided your knowledge of new music? Regardless of the genre, you turned on the radio for hours and listened to the songs, all the while saving money in order to buy an album. Radio and albums…crazy stuff.           I realize that the music industry is completely different now in the way that things are run, along with the way in which people listen to music, but I can still remember lying in the sand at the beach for hours and listening to the radio without headphones or earbuds. If your bedroom never had a stereo that included a turntable and really huge speakers when you were a teenager, then you probably don’t know the heartache of scratching an album on your favorite song. You’re just a pup. The thing about FM radio was that you had to listen to a bunch of songs that you really didn’t like over and again in order to hear the ones that you actually did like. It always involved the need to tolerate a l...

                                            I know this man who received very serious injuries in an accident several years ago. He fell off of a cliff while riding a horse. The horse then fell off of the cliff and landed on top of him. He had very severe injuries and thought that he would never be able to get out of a bed and walk again. Through some “tough love” from a family member he was prompted to get himself up and eventually he recovered enough to walk again (with some level of difficulty). He even recovered enough to ride horses again. I met him after all of this happened, but I have always known him to be a physically disabled individual who is very positive and happy. I would only see him for short periods of time because he lives in another state and would only come to visit relatives here for a month or so at a time. I heard recently that he is not doing well at all...

I had an appointment with my endocrinologist yesterday morning. I go every four months for a checkup to monitor my diabetes. This disease remains a lasting gift due to the damage done to my pancreas by the accident. All of the numbers directly related to blood glucose and such were good. It seems that I’m managing this disease very well thus far. However, there was a problem with my triglycerides level. Triglycerides levels involve the amount of fat in your blood. Triglycerides serve the purpose of providing you with energy by storing unused calories in your fat cells. Too much of them can cause damage to your pancreas and liver, along with increasing the risk for heart disease and strokes. I had damage done to both my pancreas and liver in the accident, and diabetes helps to create major problems with the threat of heart disease and stroke. Yeah, needless to say this wasn’t good news. The doctor couldn’t understand how this happened because I’ve been in such good shape with all of my ...