I took my first piano lesson from Fred Cadiente at ABC Music in San Bruno at the tender young age of six. I had my heart set on playing the guitar but thanks to my being born with small hands, the executive decision was made that I was going to play the piano. Every Tuesday [...]
Archive for October, 2008
The Last Waltz
Posted in Music on October 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Rants and Raves Revisited Volume 1 Issue 2
Posted in Rants and Raves on October 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Patients Like Me. I recently became a member of patientslikeme.com. It is an amazingly hopeful and helpful site and the people there have been very welcoming to me. It is a place where you can compare treatments and symptoms from a massive database or join in a discussion about anything at their forum section. I [...]
Who’s Crying Now
Posted in Treatments on October 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I attended my first “real” rock concert back in 1981 when I was twelve years old. I saw Journey at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. At the time of it’s release, Journey’s Escape album helped catapult the band to unprecedented heights in popularity. To this day, I personally credit the music on that record [...]
Rants and Raves Revisited Volume 1, Issue 1
Posted in Rants and Raves on October 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Some of you old timers may recognize the title of this post as a blast from your Mr P the math teacher past. Think back to the days when your son or daughter was in my sixth or seventh grade math class and every Monday I would send them home with an assignment sheet for [...]
Why Emma Will Not Be Dressing Up as a Hot Dog for Halloween This Year
Posted in Emergency Room, Emma on October 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last year, when Fehmeen was about five months pregnant with Emma, I vividly recall wandering around downtown Burlingame, window shopping all the cute baby clothes stores. The storefronts were awash with the latest Fall fashions and I remember entering one particular store and perusing their infant Halloween costume collection. We saw a fluffy duck costume, [...]
Mr P Says YOU Rock
Posted in Thank You on October 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am a man of many routines. When I get dressed, I put on my left sock followed by my left shoe and then my right sock followed by my right shoe. When I eat at a Chili’s restaurant, I always order the chicken fajita pita with french fries. And on Sundays, between the months [...]
Clinical Trial and Error
Posted in Treatments on October 5, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Near the top of the never-ending list of infuriating and frustrating things about having ALS is that there isn’t anything you can do about it. There is no cure, no magic elixir you can take to make it go away, or no hope of ever hearing the phrase uttered by your favorite neurologist, ‘Take two [...]
F as in Flower
Posted in Fehmeen on October 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Have you ever ordered an item on the phone or spoken to a customer service rep about something and you got to the point in the conversation where you had to tell them your name? In my wife’s case, 999 times out of 1000, the dialogue unfolds like this: First name, please? It’s Fehmeen. Um, [...]
