Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Month: September 2004
Why I Don’t Miss Grapefruit Juice
Posted on September 20, 2004 in College Medications Psychotropics
Two of my medications forbid me to drink the juice of or eat of the grapefruit. Not that I miss it.
Inside Information
Posted on September 20, 2004 in Health
I feel nothing except a little soreness where the bruises drift and itching from the work of the razor.
Naked Came the Patient
Posted on September 19, 2004 in Coronary
Hospitals — even Catholic ones — like to get you naked and keep you that way.
Adipose Blimp
Posted on September 18, 2004 in Cats
Fiona …. has evolved from a waif into an adipose blimp.
Dream
Posted on September 18, 2004 in Dreams
I’ve gone back to junior high, into the body that I had as an early adolescent.
Brief News
Posted on September 17, 2004 in Coronary
The diagnosis is minimal blockage (30%) compounded by a congenital narrowing of the arteries.
Kerry and Terrorism
Posted on September 17, 2004 in Campaign 2004 Terrorism
Again, they are accusing Kerry of their own worst fault.
Another Second to Last Thought
Posted on September 16, 2004 in Attitudes Originality & Creativity
Fear of death is a kinder, more generous goad than a deadline.
Finally….
Posted on September 16, 2004 in Health Medical Ethics
Medicine shouldn’t be a series of hoops to jump through.
Second to Last Thought
Posted on September 16, 2004 in Poems
One of many short poems that I have written in the last few days, emptying my mind of imagery. Was it Johnson who said that knowing that a man was going to die on the gallows concentrates his mind wonderfully? I do not know that I will die — I doubt that I will die — but the anxiety drives me nonetheless:
It is better
to be on the edge of a something and fall off
than to be the emptiness
dead center.
Delta of Angina
Posted on September 16, 2004 in Coronary Journals & Notebooks Prose Arcana
Friday, half past noon, the exploration of my delta begins on television.
Waiting for Tests
Posted on September 15, 2004 in Encounters Health
I murmured a little prayer of thanks.
