Tag: Mortality

Who’s the Boss?

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As hard as it’s become to love my body through the challenge heart failure imposes on it (and if I’m honest before h.f.), I absolutely don’t not-love her. I do worry that she will up and leave me altogether. The truth is, our relationship will end because all bodies end. It’s no secret that all of them are fallible and impermanent despite the corporatizing of them that says we can make them otherwise.

Cracks in the Facade

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In December of last year my father suffered a heart attack.  If there’s a such thing as a freak heart attack, his was one.  My dad is no Jack Lalane, but despite his penchant for fried chicken wings and bacon, he’s a pretty fit dude according to his doctors.  Up until that morning, he had [...]