“The doctor has ordered a medication that will help rid of the fluid in your lungs and will help you breathe better, but it will make you pee constantly.”“Oh, I understand now.”Her voice was quiet but was more steady. Doctors come and go while the nurses are steadfast with her ca...
Makepung buffalo race, Negara 14 of Bali’s best beaches 14. Running of the Bulls (Spain) This one might be a bucket list cliché, but there’s no adrenaline rush quite like the fear of being gored and trampled by one of the world’s most powerful land mammals. The biggest Run...
Makepung buffalo race, Negara 14 of Bali’s best beaches 14. Running of the Bulls (Spain) This one might be a bucket list cliché, but there’s no adrenaline rush quite like the fear of being gored and trampled by one of the world’s most powerful land mammals. The biggest Run...
Mom’s fifth birthday beyond this realm last month felt like a bad hangover. The kind where you’re perpetually nauseous for eight to ten hours but not nearly enough to actually expel any of the toxins making a home out of your insides. The fifth anniversary of her death this fall will ...
The cold wash cloths for fever, the flat glasses of Coke for an upset stomach; all were administered with an almost business-like calm that made me think being sick was no big deal and feeling better was inevitable. You could tell my mother three or four symptoms and she’d diagnose you...
“I bet they make you really happy. My baby boy makes me happier than I’ve ever been. And you know what I realised when he was born?” said the lady. “What?” asked John. “When I felt the love I have for my boy I realised how much my Mum loves me” said the lady. ...
Your body gets put on alert, but physically you get light-headed, nauseous, and your body expels waste at an alarming rate. If you don’t do something to combat that continued assault, anxiety can lead to much larger issues than general body aches. ...
“Your son cannot come to our school. You can send him somewhere else, but not here.” he reiterates. “You’ll be seeing him tomorrow. Make sure you remember the number for the police.” “Is this conversation over?” he asks. ...
Being a DC runner and having never run the Army Ten Miler is unheard of. No really. It’s actually kind of weird. So when I knew that I would be training for the Marine Corps Marathon throughout the summer and fall, I figured why not make the ATM a speed bump in the road to tap...
More so than injury or sudden calamity, the slow burn—the long grind of the psychological epic—is the one I consider most epic: being on pitch 11 when there are only supposed to be nine, and the climbing is a lot harder than it should be. Or in that storm where all you can do ...