Bob Murray

I read somewhere that Canada spends close to $350 billion on healthcare per year. That is about $7,500 per person per year. 

Yesterday, I had an appointment with my oncologist (cancer). The purpose was (I think) to bring me up to date with my progress in fighting melanomas (the trigger for re-emergence of my DM).

My dementia is slowly progressing in my brain. There seems to be continuous announcements with potential solutions to help those diagnosed with one of the many dementias. 

Three years ago (2021) surgeons removed two large melanomas (6.3 centimetres and 1.9 cm) from my left armpit area. Remaining were three small melanomas in my lungs.

Do you know what I am talking about? Of course you do. Virtually everyone has a cupa “Joe” every day and that includes me. This is a common phrase, known by everyone.

I’m sorry that I missed wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 

I first started writing columns about “My Voyage with Dementia” about 84 months ago.

I try to remember back to December, 2017. It was on this year that I had a SPECT brain scan and was…

I have been researching the medications and vitamins that are available to me and fed to me, while I was fed through my stomach.

Writing these columns helps to keep my cognitive brain active but sometimes confusion takes over.

The following medications and vitamins or typical to someone with a number of diseases. Not only…

Like it or not I’m not in control of the medications that are prescribed by my doctors – the specialists. However, I am in control of the vitamins that I take on a regular basis.

A few weeks ago, I started to urinate blood – not steady, just intermittently. 

The gut microbiome are the trillions of microorganisms – primarily bacteria, but also fungi, viruses and protists – that live inside the digestive system. 

No, no one had died. However, a good friend of the last nine years has moved away.