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My Recent and Current Illness

By CJoseph | December 3, 2010

Several people have told me I should write about my recent illness with the twists and turns it has taken. I will try not to make it read like one of those old folks talking endlessly about their sciatica or irregularity. It will not be written in chronological order, but memories and vignettes will be [...]

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Death in the Mirror

By CJoseph | November 19, 2010

After four or five days in ICU, I finally looked in a mirror and saw death staring back at me. My  face was all dry and wrinkled as if I had aged by 15 years in one week. It was startling to see. I examined the shape of my creases and noted that they weren’t [...]

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Visitors Bearing Gifts

By CJoseph | October 24, 2010

Sunday afternoon and evening, I had several visitors to my hospital room. I do not remember who all came. Perhaps you can cut me some slack on that. I was on morphine and Percocet; and still felt pain. I think Vladimir was there. Irene came and brought a most thoughtful gift: a small CD/tape/radio stereo, [...]

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Accidental Health Advocate

By CJoseph | October 23, 2010

On Saturday, October 16, one of the last things the host of Marketplace Money on NPR said was something like: “Before you go to the hospital, you should make sure you have a health advocate who can help you through the process and look out for your best interests.” She did not say how to [...]

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It’s Probably Cancer

By CJoseph | October 21, 2010

A doctor read my MRIs and concluded that I had a tumor about the size of a large plum or small apple attached to the interior side of my spine at L-11, L-12 and L-13. I was told to schedule a biopsy for oncology after I had been off of Valium for at least four [...]

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Heavy Metal Music

By CJoseph | October 20, 2010

On Wednesday, October 20, Hilary drove me back to Grand View Hospital for MRIs on my spine. I spent over an hour in the MRI machine for standard and with contrast MRIs. The huge machine makes a constant noise that sounds like it is straight out of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” starring Danny [...]

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Inexplicable Pain

By CJoseph | October 18, 2010

I started to feel a pain in my back on Sunday, October 3. There was no good reason for it, as far as I could tell. I hadn’t lifted anything incorrectly or slept on it funny. It just started to hurt. The pain gradually grew more intense over the next two weeks. On Saturday, Oct [...]

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Bush, McCain and Palin’s Holy War

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | September 5, 2008

Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin taught in her “Bible study” class at the Assemblies of God Church in Wasilla, Alaska, that the US troops in Iraq had been sent “out on a task that is from God.” 1 She also taught the School for Ministry graduates that it was God’s will that the natural gas [...]

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Rosalie, Pete, Jerome & Pops

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | August 15, 2008

Rosalie was born about two weeks before me in 1955. We’re both partially of Irish descent. We grew up at the same time in different parts of the same country in two very different worlds. I first met Rosalie in 1985 when she was an inmate in the Women’s Detention Facility at the Philadelphia House [...]

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