I spent years telling patients to disclose every medication, supplement, symptom, and substance to their healthcare provider. Then I became the patient who didn't follow his own advice.
Tag: Recovery
Sometimes the Best Medicine is an Inappropriate Joke
Dark humor isn't a lack of compassion. Sometimes it's the only thing standing between trauma and surrender.
Level 1,000 and Learning Grace
A gaming milestone, a new obsession with 3D printing, and a reminder that recovery from stroke, grief, and PTSD is rarely a straight line. Sometimes the hardest lesson isn't healing—it's learning to give yourself grace.
Nobody Is Watching
After years of worrying what everyone else thought, I made a surprising discovery: most people are too busy dealing with their own lives to pay much attention to mine. Oddly enough, that's one of the most freeing things I've ever learned.