We’ve all seen the incredible response to the earthquake disaster in Haiti and, as a Canadian, I am proud that Canada has stepped up quickly and is playing such a major role. The world community has pledged billions of dollars to help rebuild the country and there is a movement to forgive the country’s massive [...]
If you wonder why there are so many homeless people, consider my situation. After the fiasco with the Salvation Army Centre of Hope, where they kicked me out because they screwed up, costing me a 42 day stay, they sent me to the Mission men’s shelter. It was now after August 1st, so they said [...]
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Somewhat fatalistic, I know, but I thought I had best know the warning signs before I slip off into the diabetic coma. It’s been four weeks now without my meds, for the first time since being diagnosed way back in 2004. I was better off not knowing. With the sole exception of cognitive problems, which, [...]
As Sinatra sang it, “and now the end is near and I must face the final curtain”. For what seems like far too long now I have been fighting an uphill battle to just work hard and survive, but I just can’t catch a break. It if weren’t for my friend and colleague, Sieg Pedde, [...]
This may be my last post, and not by choice. This site was a last ditch effort to turn things around and it’s failed. I was desperately hoping that kind people would donate the price of a cup of coffee to help me get back on my feet, and then help others in situations like [...]
Just when I think it can’t possibly get any worse, it does. That light at the end of the tunnel is, in fact, the oncoming train. At the moment I want to just not move and let the train put me out of my misery. First, the woman of my dreams, the one I thought [...]
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It’s said that friends are the family we choose. From those friends we made in our first years of school, through those made working and through sports and various social situations and, of course, governed by where we live through our lives, literally hundreds of potential friends come into our lives. Some, like those made [...]
When I opened my eyes today, for the first time in my life, I wished I had not woken up at all. With the holidays I have completely messed up my meds and it would have been merciful if this had just let me go peacefully. Instead I wake to tears in my eyes and [...]
Only a short two years ago my blood pressure was off the charts. My doctor told me in no uncertain terms that I had better find a way to get out from under all the stress. He said I was the “poster boy” for a heart attack. He put me on the needle for insulin [...]
When things go wrong there are many sayings that people use to try to “buck up” and get on with their lives. One is “when one door closes, another one opens”, suggesting a “glass half full, not half empty” approach when things go badly for them. After what I went through in Panama there were [...]
