Mélaine Innocent Schreiber 1976-2008

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Mélaine is at peace. At 10:30 (local time, 11th August) Mélaine died. She stopped breathing and her heart beat on for a few more minutes. She was peaceful and we were all around her, proud of her and privileged to be there. We felt sure Mélaine could hear us and […]

Happy Earth Day

I know that today is all about reducing one’s carbon footprint and cutting down on global emissions and the effect that we’re having on the environment through wasteful habits and overuse of resources. While I’m all for such things I can’t help but think of Bob the Builder and that really it just comes down […]

Cleveland Clinic

Sunday night we told Jay we were going on a trip. One that involved a four hour car journey there and back. For Jay, usually a long car journey means Chicago and the museums or going to stay with Mamie and Grandpa Jerry. He was extremely unimpressed when he realised that Monday’s trip involved four […]

Lincoln Museum Closure

Yet another piece of Fort Wayne culture and history slipping away. Nancy wrote a good post about it and said everything I would wish to say, only much better and more succinctly. As previous owner of my house I keep hoping remnants of her ghost will infuse in me the skill and natural ability to […]

Aplastic anemia explained and some updates

My blog may start to become a little bit medical over the next few posts, mainly because my recovery process is not going quite as we had expected. Infectious Diseases are still running tests on all my blood smears, etc but still have no answer or diagnosis as to what caused this. And as we’ve […]

Venturing forth, slowly

I’m not going to write too much right now, I really just wanted to post some photos from Jay’s 4th birthday party for the grandfolks.
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It has been quite a surreal couple of weeks. After three weeks of feeling utterly exhausted, as in I’d climb a flight of stairs, have to stop and catch my […]

Ethyl methylphenylglycidate, ethyl Nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerbate, heliotropin, hydroxyphrenyl-2butanone…& you want me to drink that?

I always knew the American government and nutrition scientists had pulled a fast one over everyone and that processed food has a LOT to answer for in the degredation of the nation’s health. And no wonder my health care costs and insurance are so bloody high - hello, ever heard of preventative rather than corrective? […]

Reason to learn a foreign language

This was forwarded to me today, it made me chuckle so I thought I’d share it:
After an exhaustive review of the research literature, here’s the final word on nutrition and health:
1. Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.
2. Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than […]