Re: The Will to Shower, notes to myself
Posted: February 2nd, 2011, 2:36 pm
My tires are good for the rest of the season, Jack. Next winter is problematic.
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How do you say ptsd?Got the last dream in the latest flurry cleared from the boards this morning.
Someone won't make peace with the past now being hunted by lions. Can you say Holy Babylon & the Great Goose Mother?
Signs of Approaching Death
When a person is just hours from death, breathing often changes from a normal rate and rhythm to a new pattern of several rapid breaths followed by a period of no breathing. This is known as “Cheyne-Stokes” breathing—named for the person who first described it.
Cheyne-Stokes respiration
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I compressed much of my grief into an odd fantasy that in the afterlife they had moved down to Miami Beach and were experiencing eternal bliss together, with endless sunny beaches and Early Bird specials. Florida, I imagined, was actually some form of Shangri-La where all of our deceased elderly could be found happily wandering around if we just looked hard enough.
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No other period of life has such a feared and mysterious ending. Childhood ends with the budding of puberty and the new challenges of adolescence. Adolescence passes away in the excitement of pulsating hormones, shedding its awkward, uncertain skin in the journey into young adulthood. The subsequent stages of adulthood bring undiscovered treasures of love, children, work, and spirit. Even in the face of failure or lost opportunities, there is always hope for something new. But aging seems to bring this process to a halt. The horizon is unknown except for the single fact that a true ending will come ...