I’ve been asked several times now how I knew I was having a stroke and what it felt like. I think people are worried that they might have one themselves and wanted to know what it was like. I wish I had recognized it sooner but my brain was not working correctly at the time. I was in denial. My brain was working just fine, as far as I could tell.

Wednesday February 28, 2024. I woke up in bed alone. Mary was getting out of the hospital today and I would be picking her up and taking care of her — there are lots of reasons to be short of breath, and she found some.

Eldest kid Sam was coming off several months working in a COVID ward in New York City and wanted to do something big before she started medical school in August 2021. Some of her medical buddies suggested going hiking in Iceland, because Iceland was letting people in. With COVID testing, of course. Other voices thought going to Africa and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro would be fun. Tanzania was also letting people come. We climbed Mount Fuji in Japan in 2014. That was fun and a real adventure. How much harder could Kilimanjaro be?

Lots harder, as it turned out.

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I’ve been playing around with making videos of myself singing, multi-tracking with myself and with others. This post is a collection of the videos I’ve put out there on Vimeo and Youtube.

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