by benforred | Sep 26, 2023 | Cancer, Health, history, Medical Procedures, Medical Providers, Mental Health, Ostomy, Pain, Short Bowel, Surgery, Survival, Symptoms
La Mémoire Noire or The Dark Memory is a letter series written to my first surgeon. The man who caused everything ultimately in my life to reach this point today. I was to have 2 surgeries beginning at the age of 9 and his surgical errors altered the course of...
by benforred | May 23, 2022 | Anniversaries, history, Milestones
It’s Life’s a Polyp’s 10 year anniversary! One of the ways to celebrate I thought would be to do the 10 Year Challenge but blog style!So much has happened for LAP and myself in the last 10 years. I shared about previously in The Evolution of...
by benforred | Dec 31, 2014 | Activity, Health, history, Symptoms
Energy is a funny thing. It changes rapidly, without notice. And yet, even at our lowest we somehow manage to summon enough strength and energy to at least do the bare minimum of what’s required of us. And then we collapse. I’ve fought with energy on...
by benforred | Feb 16, 2014 | Anniversaries, Health, history, Medical Providers
I’m not very good about remembering health milestones. I don’t usually think about how many years since my first surgery or my last and when I do it’s not typically anytime around the anniversary. But this year I did remember that it’s been 20...
by benforred | Jun 30, 2013 | Health, history, PTSD
It’s been so long ago, the medical tests and procedures, the surgeries and the struggle for life. It’s been a lifetime ago but it doesn’t always seem like my life. I have to remind myself that it was my life and not someone else’s life. I feel...
by benforred | Mar 25, 2013 | Health, history
Throughout the day while at my desk, clothes shopping, getting ready for a function, or even just lying in bed I’m reminded of what once was and what threatens the future by a single scar and it’s never healing abnormality. This single spot as well as...
