Throwback: Still quantified
I was just beginning to explore the concept of health monitoring or self-quantifying back in 2013 when I wrote about my use of the Fitbit Flex. I was hoping that…
Quarterly health checks
My wife Irene has cancer. It is stage 4 breast cancer, so we have a lot of things to worry about despite the excellent care and good results she has…
Tummy troubles
My state of health has been a bit rough for the past twelve months or so. I had severe sciatic pain, then a mental breakdown, and following that some nearly…
Missing time
A few months ago over the Christmas holiday season I had a mental breakdown. I documented it a bit in previous posts, but there has been a significant gap of…
Physiotherapy
The last quarter of 2025 was a bit of a mess for me health-wise. It started in October with some kind of sciatic nerve disruption that left me essentially crippled…
Lower back MRI
I returned to the Trail (Kootenay Boundary) hospital on Monday night for an MRI. This one was of my lower back, and traces to my original problem with sciatica /…
Getting to hypomania: a litany of tests
I have been diagnosed with hypomania. It is an interesting diagnosis, not easily achieved. I am impressed by the diagnostic work the medical professionals involved went through. But what kinds…
EEG brain scan
I had to travel to Kelowna last week for an electroencephalogram (EEG). More specifically, mine was a "prolonged sleep-deprived EEG'. It sounds a little bit like torture, and it is...…
My diagnosis: Hypomania
I had an "event" on December 15. Simplistically speaking, I spent about five or six hours throwing things, shouting swear words, and generally being obnoxious. Out of this was born…
Weight loss via semaglutide
I decided this spring that my non-stop race towards morbid obesity needed to be addressed. I have been trying vainly for a couple of years to slow the process down by gradually increasing my activity levels and making a comically unsuccessful attempt to reduce my calorie intake. But it seemed as if my own willpower was insufficient to the task: the numbers on the scale kept going up. I made the decision to try a medical intervention via the modern ‘miracle’ of GLP-1 agonists.
This is my (hopefully succinct) story.
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