FIT for a couple scopes
With long-term IBS and a near year-long H Pylori infection triggering a specialist consultation, I’m not sure I really needed to add anything to the 2020 GI bingo card. In the meantime, however, it occurred…
Category: Health
My interests in this area run the gamut from nutrition, to exercise, to general health and all points in between.
Helicobacter Pylori
My long-standing digestive issues already caused me regular grief, but I began noticing new symptoms in the fall/winter of 2019. In particular, frequent severe heartburn without any change in diet, intermittent stomach pain that got…
A digestive year from hell
Digestion is a topic that many people don’t like to discuss. Well, I’m going to talk about it because 2020 has been a gastrointestinal (GI) annus horribilis, and yet I’ve managed to come out the…
Cogent COVID thoughts on BC’s approach
Since we all have to exist in, and hopefully survive, this COVID-19 thing, British Columbia has been one of the best places in the world to be. Through a combination of good luck and the…
2014 Victoria Granfondo; riding ugly
Don’t let the title of this post fool you. On most any count that matters, it was a great day. The ugly was pretty much all me and my legs. I can’t really complain because…
Ride2Survive
I tried typing with a sore, swollen wrist with Naproxen and Tylenol 3s in my system the day after the event – not the most effective way of writing. As such I had to get…
Why anti-cyclists have it wrong
As someone who both cycles and drives a fair bit, I’ve got no axe to grind with either side of the bicycle-automobile debate. I’m an equal opportunity hater when I see a member of either…