IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly,and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” — Abraham Stoker (1847 – 1912), Irish author. “Dracula” (1897) Chances are your doctor has given you a strong...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “They tried to make go to rehab, I said no, no, no.” -- Amy Winehouse (1983-2011), English singer/songwriter “Back to Black” (2006) I guess “no,no,no” was as much poetic as it was truthful. Amy Winehouse died at 28 and the official coroner’s report was...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “My two assets my pen and my voice – and it had to be the esophagus.” – Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011), Anglo-American writer and journalist, Mortality (2012) There are at least four alcoholic writers, (Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Alan Watts) that I admire....
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “Whole nations annihilated… the vast cities of America, the fertile plains of Hindostan, the crowded abodes of the Chinese, are menaced with utter ruin.”— Mary Shelley (1797-1851), English novelist, The Last Man (1826) Mary Shelley, best known for the Gothic novel...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d!” – William Cowper (1731-1800), English poet and hymnodist, Walking with God (c.1779) Here’s a conundrum: here you are WFH (working from home) and yet – you’re stressed (!). It comes as an irony that William Cowper suffered a...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST DR. JOSE PUJALTE JR. “Here I and sorrows sit.” – William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and playwright King John , Act. iii, Scene 1 (1623) Not that we have obliterated smoking as a health hazard – society continues to a pay a price for a smoking public in...
