IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. – Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet. “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” Collected Poems (1952). This is just the...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “Adios, queridosseres, morir es descansar.” — (Farewell to all I love; to die is to rest) Jose Rizal (1861 – 1896), Filipino nationalist and polymath Mi Ultimo Adios (My Last Farewell) (1892) In 1892, at around the time that Jose Rizal was...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian-British philosopher on his deathbed, with prostate cancer Below a man’s urinary bladder and in front of his rectum lies a gland the size, the anatomist Henry...
Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “We thought the sky, the sky would never fall.” – Michael Franks (b. 1944), U.S. singer/songwriter “Mr. Blue” The Art of Tea (1975) If you’re an 80s (or late 70s) person, you’ve heard the songs of Michael Franks. He was in Manila in 1981...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “I tell you my blood runs out on the floor of this oak, gout upon gout.” – D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist “Under the Oak” (1916) In 2020, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un was presumed dead when he disappeared from the public...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is bad – it really is.” – Donald JohnTrump (b.1946), 45 th US president, to Larry King on CNN’s “Larry King Live” That quotation appears in Stanley Bing’s book “What Would...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “But blunt and flaccid is my pen.” — Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), English poet, “Time to Be Wise” (1795) Erectile dysfunction is “the inability to achieve and sustain an erection suitable for sexual intercourse.” Failure to achieve an...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “The advantage of having a bad memory is that you can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, “A Bad Memory” (1878) This is an aging person’s nightmare: waking up one...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “... the canker, and the grief are mine alone!” – Lord Byron (1788-1824), English poet, On this Day I Complete My Thirty Sixth Year (1824) While the big ones like cancer and stroke may overwhelm us, it’s the common inconveniences like ingrown...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “..he never straightens his knee joints… and in walking he does not tread but shovel and slide.” – Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist, Collected Letters , vol. 3. Thomas Carlyle probably described arthritis when he first met another...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, and twins even from the birth are misery and man!” — Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet, The Odyssey of Home (1726),Book vii. Line 263. When a task is “arduous and exhausting, demanding great...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “ Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.” — Mason Cooley (b. 1927). US aphorist, City Aphorisms, 7 th Selection, New York (1990) Gwarosa is the Korean equivalent of the Japanese karoshi which they describe as “sudden death due to heart...
