A comment that came in reminded me that I have been entirely absent from my author site for a couple of months. I have not been writing. On the 8th of November, my youngest son had a hemor­rhagic stroke. The strokes with which I’m most familiar are ischemic — blood clots. Hemor­rahgic strokes differ by cause and by how damage to the brain is done. The cause was uniden­ti­fied high blood pres­sure, as opposed to an aneurysm, and it took some time to figure out what had caused this, although they now feel reason­ably certain they know (hyper-aldes­tero­nism). Of the four people in our family, he’s the one who’s in the best phys­ical shape — or he was, before the stroke. The stroke took left-side func­tion­ality from him, … Continue reading →