Category: Nonfiction
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My CKD nurse is kind
Another chapter from my book on chronic kidney disease
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What I am currently reading…
I am currently reading an important book about a man who suffered greatly for Christ, as well as a an actor bio and an excellent mystery novel
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I’m good!
Excerpt from my new book on kidney disease… Someone asked me recently how I was doing. I said what my doctor said, “I’m doing well, for someone who is not doing well”, or words to that effect. Basically he was saying that for someone with stage four kidney disease, I was tracking reasonably well, but…
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Protein is too high!!!
Excerpt from my new book on living with kidney disease So, I was doing some volunteer work in town, and I was painting benches for about 4 hours in the sun. Normally I would be okay with that, but this time out I got super weak, and didn’t feel great. Later that day I had…
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I’ll stand pat
An excerpt from my new book on kidney disease… So, I figured I could sue my doctor but then I reconsidered. I am a Christian. Does that give me a degree in morality? Not necessarily, but Christians aren’t to sue other Christians. I figure we can’t love people while suing them for the shirt off…
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My main breaker what?
From my 2023 book, Solar 102 One of the dirges of the solar world, or any contracting world, is having to tell people when something they want can’t be had… at least not without spending an inordinate amount of money. To hack NBT (Net Billing Tariff or NEM3, PG&E’s newest and draconian tariff), one still…
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The In-Between Time
A Short Story Brendan Shea Mercury Press No part of this book may be reproduced, recorded or transmitted in any form by any means, without the express written permission of the author, with the exception of a few brief sentences for review purposes. Text copyright © 2024 by Brendan Shea Mercury Press, an imprint of…
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A rant on expectations
From my new book on Kidney Disease… So in the beginning, I was asked a simple question. It was as though I was at the drive-up window at Jack in the Box, and I got to decide if I wanted French fries or onion rings. I had been diagnosed as having Stage 3B Kidney Disease,…
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New Book, Next Chapter
Here is the next chapter of my new book on kidney disease, “timestamp” Hit me again? So I went in to Kaiser to see a Nephrologist. This was new territory for me. I was concerned, and so I ought to have been. The specialist, in retrospect, glossed over some items, and later, too, the nurse;…
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Chapter 2 of my New Book
About CKD: Chronic Kidney Disease I’ll try to publish several chapters to my blog before going on to publication (this book is not yet completed) Bipolar 1? After the holdup in New York, my stepfather drove me to Pennsylvania, where he and my mom were then living. I was unstable in mind, and soon would…
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