Posted in Health, Humanity, Internet, Relationships, Society, Technology, tagged AIDS, chat, communication, condom, divorce, email, Internet, prostitute, prostitution, sex, sexual health, sexually transmitted infections, STD, STI, videocall, VOIP, webcams on July 4, 2008 | 10 Comments »
One story which has been causing a fair amount of sniggers in the press this week is a research report by the UK Health Protection Agency indicating that sexually transmitted infections have doubled in under a decade in people over 45 and are now rising faster than in the young. (The overall rate of [...]
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Posted in Health, Humanity, Mortality, Science, Uncategorized, tagged heart attack, angiogram, angioplasty, dye, CHD, cardiovascular disease, stent, valium on July 2, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I am now the proud owner of a third one.
The experience of getting there was quite difficult.
Let me briefly re-cap.
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Posted in Health, Mortality, tagged hospital, blood, arteries, phobia, heart attack, angiogram, angioplasty, Papworth, medical, groin on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two becomes three …
Although I can write about it now, I have been ‘internally speechless’ for days (if that makes sense).
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Posted in Health, Morality, tagged angiogram, angioplasty, cardiac, dye, heart, hypnotherapist, hypnotherapy, Papworth, phobia, Room 101 on April 23, 2008 | 8 Comments »
For any non-regular readers, there are two important things that you need to know in order to appreciate this post. The first, is that about three weeks ago I had a minor heart attack and spent a week in hospital (see The English Patient (1) and The English Patient (2)). The other, and [...]
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Posted in Faith, Health, Mortality, Religion, tagged Bob Newhart, Christian, God, medicine, mumbo-jumbo, phobia, prayer, praying on April 11, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Since my friends have got to know of my present health problems a number of them from throughout the UK have contacted me to assure me that they are praying for me, and I know that at least two churches are interceding for me. I am genuinely touched by the kindness of the sentiment [...]
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I mentioned in my last posting how communication was one of the issues that contributed to the high stress levels of my hospital stay. I want to expand on that today. However, I must acknowledge that the communication confusions were also a source of mirth, albeit unintended.
From my perspective there were four communication [...]
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Posted in Health, Uncategorized, tagged hospital, blood, arteries, heart, nurse, trauma, veins, heart attack, ward, cardiac, National Health Service on April 7, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Apologies, dear reader(s) for my unannounced absence - I know at least one person will have been struggling. I have been in hospital for a few days. The chest pains first reported while in Florence and which resulted in the blood test (see The Blood Donor) developed into a minor heart attack on [...]
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Posted in Health, Uncategorized, tagged blood, doctor, nurse, phlebotomist, phobia, Photoshop, trauma, vampire, varicose, veins on March 28, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Apologies, dear reader(s) for my less than prolific output in the past few days (I honestly don’t know how you have coped), but I have been living in ‘interesting times’. I have had several things preoccupying me and stealing the precious time that otherwise would have been devoted to filling this space. However, [...]
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Posted in Health, Humanity, Relationships, Therapy, tagged bitterness, burden, couples, dependency, depression, initiative, mood, resentment, sex, stress on March 12, 2008 | 10 Comments »
“I resent my depressed wife” is the title of an honest piece published in today’s Times about a reader and his wife. When she became depressed, the quality of their life and relationship changed for the worse.
Depression can come out of the blue and touch even the most seemingly happy and well-adjusted people. [...]
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Posted in Faith, Government, Health, Human Rights, Morality, Religion, tagged hospital, British Medical Association, BMA, Roman Catholic, abortion, Cardinal Murphy O'Connor, St John and St Elizabeth, contraception on February 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, has been criticised by the British Medical Association (BMA) after he dramatically increased pressure on the private Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, in St John’s Wood, North London, to implement a new code of Roman Catholic ethics. Members of [...]
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