Blood Vials

Up before alarm at 0600. Out of the house by 0727, arrived hospital 0745, and processed at 0800, 15 minutes before my scheduled time of 0815. The clinic extracted a huge amount of blood. At the last blood test (almost two years ago) there were just two sample vials. Today there was a double line of blood vials, standing as erect as a company of British redcoats on parade.
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Four Hits In Ten Years

Somewhere in my web wanderings I came across information which stated brain injury is cumulative; one head injury predisposes you for the next. Each impact has the effect of increasing the severity of any subsequent head injury. I recently realized that I have experienced four hits in ten years. This is a record of each of those events.
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Wound Images

Subsequent to the accident I developed a food sensitivity to caffeine. Ingesting caffeine results in large blister formations that then pop and leave open wounds. The major site of these is on my left forearm but I also have similar activity on my left calf, a spot on my left thigh, and a spot on my left knee.
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