This morning I got to witness a once-in-a-lifetime event; Two humpback whales passed within a few hundred yards of my house! The wayward whales, Delta and her calf Dawn, finally made it underneath the Al Zampa ( Carquinez) Bridge , hopefully on their way to the pacific ocean. I had basically camped out on my [...]
Exercise&Fitness
My next caper
OK, I’m slowly emerging from this dark hole I’ve been in for the past two weeks and I think I ‘ve finally found something to cheer me up. A nice hilly half marathon with a non-walker friendly time limit! For sometime now, I’ve been wrestling with a decision on whether or not to do the [...]
Asthma
The evil candy
(The Prednisone Molecule) Thanks everyone for checking up on me. I’m fine! ( well,… almost) I’ve been out of the hospital for 5 days now, and while I’m finally breathing better again, the party has just begun. Thankfully, I’m already well into my steroid taper ( the worse part) and hope to be off it [...]
Asthma
#85
I don’t know if walking 26 miles had anything to do with this, but what started as a simple chest cold the day after the marathon, turned into : 27 hours on a ventilator , five days on bi pap, 72 hours on continuous albuterol, 6 arterial punctures, one arterial line, eight IV insertions , [...]
Achievements
Eugene 2007
Warning: this is a very long post Pre-Race I had planned on leaving my house on Friday at 7 am for the 8 hour drive up to Oregon, but as is the norm for me, I was too wired to sleep and ended up leaving at 3 o’clock in the morning. I made it to [...]
