12-14 Safety, Healing, and Video Game Mechanics

I’ve talked about the widowhood effect before.  This is a phenomena found in widow/ers over the age of 65 (because there aren’t enough of us under 65 to study in a statistically significant manner) in which folks who have lost their partners report greater amounts of pain, are less responsive to pain medication, get sick…

12-5 Health Insurance: An American Tale

It is becoming common knowledge around the world that United States’ health insurance and medical payment system is completely fucked.  Here is my story about how lucky I am, and also how messed up this is. Health Insurance plans are required to continue coverage until the end of the month in which you had a…

11-29 Less Courts, More Hospitals

I have some good news and some bad news.  The good news is that a) I will not be having shoulder surgery and b) I can train again.  The bad news is that I have a labral tear that will never heal. I have a four week break from attending court, so instead I’m going…

9-13 Legal Proceedings

First, a disclaimer.  I am not a lawyer nor do I understand the legal process.  I had to ask how bail works.  (It’s the most backasswards system I can think of.)  All of these legal posts are my understanding of what is happening.  I might be wrong, things might change, I might not get what…

5-16 Injury details

For those who are squeamish, you may not want the rest of these details.  I’m not going to get super graphic, but I am going to spell out what happened to me and Jason and where my body is at now. I have exactly one split-second memory of the accident, so the next few things…