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  • Straightening My Cape

    Tomorrow it will be two weeks since the news that is heart transplant barreled in to my life and brain with less ceremony than a Mack truck. The first week I was pretty numb, I spent a few days laying in my bed, on my couch, and on the floor of various rooms of my…

  • New Path

    Every six months I steady myself. I spend a couple therapy sessions talking about my anxieties and worries about my impending cardiac appointments. We talk about all the ways I feel well and all the ways I want to feel better. We talk about the types of testing that will be done and the various…

  • No Safe Place

    Mo Practices Mindfulness and Meditation: A Play in One Act We open on Mo in her car driving home from her ophthalmology appointment. Mo just learned that at 36 she likely is suffering from glaucoma which is causing a rapidly growing blind spot in her left eye. Mo has had a rough week, she spent Tuesday…

  • Broken Hearted

    I talk about my heart a lot. I talk about how it works, and how it doesn’t and all the ways it is not typical. My heart is a special heart, it is it’s own little science experiment, my personal Frankenstein’s monster. People ask me about my heart a lot, they wonder about how it…

  • Pressing Play

    For the last six months I have been scared. If you asked me in person how I’ve been of course wouldn’t just come out and say it, but while my mouth was busy saying “Oh, I’ll make it.” my brain has been shouting “I’M FREAKING OUT MAN!”. Getting defibrillated shocked me you guys. Pun intended. It…

  • Circle

        Two months ago I had the wind knocked out of me both literally and figuratively and since then, things haven’t been quite the same. It shouldn’t have been a surprise when after four years living with my ICD (internal cardiac defibrillator) it finally had it’s first go at “thumping” me. I was on a…

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