Month: April 2015

blood pressure lowering too low


In dialysis dry weight or target weight is very important… I have gained one kilogram in weight… nurses kept going one kilo too low much of last week…result too low a blood pressure at the end of the treatment..means they have to give me saline…good thing I was driven this week….last two days we got things sorted now shooting one kilo higher

Shape Shifting


Shape shifting day: walker pieces assembled in the kitchen, test drive on the back deck. Had fun chasing Grace. She was not entirely sure it was a game.

My doubts about balance gone.

Old poem: “Cycling”


Cycling

The bike store woman customer wore black shorts

And a yellow fleece jacket and had legs

That were not supermodel constructed

But could ride forever.

Health shone out of her like a herd

Of 1K lights without gels.

Her eyes were fifty five.

She needed nothing from me.

My legs were tired from driving the car

Twelve blocks from the house.  Will I ever learn to

Stop treating my temple like a body.

I bought bungee cords for my old bags

To drag up and down hill, the old glacier lake edge hill,

My kamikaze mission to commute to work on two wheels.

She passed me in the aisle, her hair was a plain light gold

And I tried to remember where I had seen that colour before and

If I had a bell on my old bike I could cannibalize

To beat the cops and a ticket.

Why do these questions keep rolling into my head

What ifs and maybes, possibilities and trajectories

Simple suspicions of physical joy, where do they come

Even as the great wipeouts of past rides and falls

Rush back like the latest breaking news on CNN

Once you learn how to ride a bicycle

You never forget.