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Seizures Suck
July 2023. Started having seizures. Learned it was brain cancer. June 2024. Surgeries successful. Radiation successful. Immunotherapy successful. But I had a seizure while riding a bike. Hundreds of people on the Bronx River Parkway, closed for cyclists Sunday. I’m eternally grateful to the people who matter-of-factly helped me off the bike and onto the […]
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Reading with Brain Damage
The first book I read after brain surgery was Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood. You don’t know me well enough to understand how incongruous that is. I read cyberpunk, travelogues, dark mystery novels, and math journals. Not romance novels with a science bent. But here’s the thing. Hazelwood writes clearly. There are only […]
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Everything is fucked.
Stay positive. I get admired for my positive outlook, but it’s just like going to the gym. Fitness doesn’t build itself and staying upbeat is the same thing. Staying positive takes focused, structured practice. It’s exhausting. But the alternative is worse. Here’s what life was like after brain surgery: I couldn’t find my body. I […]