Category: Health
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Locked-in Syndrome: Diving Bells, Butterflies, Freedoms and Families
Amy and I recently saw The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (or, more properly, Le Scaphandre et le Papillon), during an unexpected extended layover in San Francisco. The movie is about the late Jean-Dominique Bauby, former editor of the fashion magazine Elle, who at age 43 suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed except for…
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Six month update on my elbow Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) treatment
Amid the broad range of emotions and activities in which I’m engaging this week – a sad last week at Nokia before an exciting new start at MyStrands – I was able to schedule an appointment for my 6-month followup visit with Dr. Mishra regarding progress on the platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatment for my right…
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Three month update on my elbow Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) treatment
On Monday, I had a followup visit with Dr. Mishra to evaluate and discuss progress and prospects for the restored health of my right elbow, three months after my treatment with Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP). One week after treatment, things had gotten worse (though, as Dr. Mishra had warned, this is often the case shortly…
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An update on my elbow, one month after Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) treatment
I had my one-month followup visit with Dr. Mishra today, to review progress since undergoing a platelet rich plasma (PRP) treatment for chronic elbow tendonitis (or, based on an earlier comment, tendonosis) on July 12. I’d posted an update at the 1-week mark, and given all the comments I’ve received on the blog and via…
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Progress Report on Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP): Week 1
It’s been a little over a week since my platelet rich plasma (PRP) injection for chronic tendonitis; as with my [blog posts about] my wife’s anal cancer treatment (which was successful, as far as we can tell, having recently passed the two year milestone of being cancer-free), I’ve received email and other inquiries about the…
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Mending Tendonitis via Platelet Rich Plasma (I hope)
I have been suffering for the past several months with the 3rd episode of tendonitis in my right elbow in 3 years. The first episode occured in November 2004 after excessive raking – I spent every waking moment for 2 consecutive dry days raking the wet leaves that had fallen over several rainy weeks from…
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Mobile Persuasion 2007: Triggering Changes in Attitudes and Behavior
BJ Fogg and his colleagues brought together an interesting and diverse collection of researchers, developers, designers, entrepreneurs and [other] activists at the Mobile Persuasion conference at Stanford University recently to discuss and debate the use of mobile technology to change people’s beliefs and behaviors. The twelve pages of notes I took are evidence that I…
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ABSolutely Obsessed: Men’s and Women’s “Health”?
In the checkout line at Whole Foods last week, I looked over and noticed a couple of magazine covers: I was struck by a couple of thoughts: obsession over ab[domen]s does not appear to be gender specific … and neither does sex. Browsing around a bit for online images of the magazine covers, I was…
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The Health of Nations: Inequality, Stress and Dissatisfaction
Stephen Bezruchka wrote an article in Sunday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer noting the higher average health found in nations with more egalitarian distributions of wealth. The article, "Economic equality is best medicine" bore the subtitle "Health of societies mostly relies on political and economic policies, not the individual treatment of disease." Bezruchka notes that Japan has the…