Bob Murray

Fall (the season not ‘falling down’) is now over and winter will shortly be on us. My doctors tell me to work on my exercise program as well as increasing my muscle mass by exercising the quad muscles.

I don’t feel that summer is over but our warm weather does continue. Maybe we will have an early snow. I am ready for anything.

This has been quite a past month. My health issues  – dementia, autoimmune, cancer, arthritis, a bad right knee and melanoma to list just a few – continue as in the last six months, but non-health issues keep cropping up. 

In 2017 I had a SPECT brain scan at a local hospital. The results: Abnormal perfusion in the right temporal lobe and right basal ganglia. 

Have you ever wondered what it is like to spend 24 hours in your home without escape? Well, I have. 

Support comes not only from the medical specialists that I have been fortunate to have. The five…

Believe it or not – I have written 191 columns under the heading “My Voyage with Dementia.” 

My last few columns have lamented my lack of information regarding my health care. 

There are a number of companies competing to build Artificial intelligence (AI) compliant operations. AI is portrayed as solving the world’s problems – one problem at a time. 

I was on a Zoom call recently and noticed that the call was identified as Zoom AI Companion. Introducing Zoom AI Companion (formerly Zoom IQ) – your new generative AI digital Zoom. 

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.