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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Git along little doggie

At the other end of that leash stood Keith's mom Joella.
Rehab walking Tumblrs: Paramount Ranch

This Sunday, we hiked the famous Paramount Ranch, which is now a national park. There were no gun fights, but in addition to the Western sets, we hiked through rock outcroppings and desert scrub that could've been scouted by cinematographers trying to set the scene.

While we were out of place in a Nineteenth Century Western town, we weren't the only ones who didn't belong in that setting. Just before we headed home, Joella spotted these birds perching above her resting spot. Call them the Parrots of Paramount, Polly want a cameo?


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Not a miracle recovery, but a miracle of modern medicine

In 2013 I fell into a six-week coma and nearly died after I contracted legionella. The Legionnaire's disease was in turn triggered by immunosuppression caused by the prednisone I was taking for my rare autoimmune disease, dermatomyositis.

I suffered a series of strokes on both sides of my brain when the sepsis caused my blood pressure to plummet. I fell into a deep coma. My kidneys and lungs began to fail, as my body was began dying one organ at a time. My doctors told my loved ones to give up hope for my full recovery. They expected me to die, and even if I somehow lived, I would remain a vegetable or at best left so hopelessly brain-damaged that I would never be same. But unbeknownst to them, while they were shining lights in my eyes and shaking their heads, I was telling them in my coma-dream--my secular version of a near-death experience--to leave me alone because I was trying to get back to sleep. I was experiencing what is known as covert cognition, the subject of my Skeptical Inquirer article "Covert Cognition: My So-Called Near-Death Experience," which appeared in their July/August issue.

But it wasn't a miracle--despite what so many continue to believe--that I recovered so fully. I owe my life not to God, but the miracles of modern medicine, as well as the nature of the watershed-area brain damage I suffered, as I detailed in my article and in this blog.