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The Bonsai, Travels and Haiku of Vaughn Banting

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Local St. Patrick's Day paradeHello all I was feeling a lot better until I got too much sun at our local St. Patrick's Day parade;St. Patty's paradefeverish thoughtsafter a slow burnBut other than thatI'm back in the pink (pardon the pun).Vaughn

More episodesIt seems these new and different seizures are going to continue to plague me even though my blood pressure is under control now. Recent MRI scans showed no noticeable change in my brain (well that nixes any possibility that I may be getting wiser doesn't it) but my right foot now feels like it's a dead stump. Apparently I have been getting some tiny strokes along with these seizures. I have been trying to get more sleep and it seems to be helping the situation, as I've gone two nights now without having seizures; where we go from here I'm not really sure.

Right now I am also fighting this virus that seems to be going around. Some of my fellow cancer support group members seem to think it might be setting off some of these seizures. When I fight this thing off I'll have a better idea what I'm really up against I guess.

triggering a seizurethe caffeinein the teahouse Vaughn Banting

A recent health scareMy four sisters and I had been planning for a big reunion of just the primary siblings in our family but we unexpectedly had to hold it in my hospital room after I was unexpectedly taken by ambulance to the hospital after two unusual back-to-back seizures left me unable to move around on my bed in the middle of the night and quite disoriented.The culprit turned out to be a sudden increase in blood pressure;I survived the scary episode but I still feel a little bit like the cheese fell off my cracker.

The reunion went on ahead though

And I had a sweet little nurse too!