Today I could not hear the word “two.” Usually, even if I miss something the first go-round, I can play speech back in my head and figure out what was said after the fact (phonetic context clues – what a concept), but not this time. This time, I heard nothing. That kind of freaked me [...]

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Quote of the Day: “Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold… brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in [...]

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My neurologist assures me that it won’t actually happen, no matter how much I may feel like it sometimes, but I am writing this in case it happens anyway: My head feels like it is going to explode. The migraine is centered right above, below, behind – all around – my right eye. Sometimes, it [...]

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Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve posted. It has really been one heck of a week. I am super tired, because even when I am able to sleep, I’m so stressed out that my dreams are all over the place. One really cool thing did happen this week, and that was that my friend [...]

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For those of you who have not heard, including friends of mine who don’t even know but have been praying for the family, little Allison Sunaoka passed away today at the age of 19 days. She put up a good fight for her life but has now gone to join her identical twin, Rory. Not [...]

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I went in today for a follow-up visit with my neuro-otologist, Dr. Hadley, and much to my surprise, my head CT confirmed what he already suspected but that I hadn’t understood: I don’t have otosclerosis, I have superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS). You’re probably thinking, “Huh?” Apropos enough, that’s what I end up saying a [...]

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Huge congrats to my high school buddy Scott and his wife, Keao, on the birth of their triplets two weeks ago! The girls were born very early, and unfortunately, one of them had a heart condition and didn’t survive very long after birth, but Allison (the one whose water broke and started the whole emergency) [...]

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I haven’t done a photo spread in a few entries here, so I thought I’d post some photos from a work event I helped coordinate this past week: the Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i’s first ever Pau Hana. In the literal translation of the Hawaiian, pau means done/finished, and hana means work, so pau hana [...]

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After all these years of watching season after season of “Weeds” and “Dexter” on iTunes or on DVD months after the paid cable subscribers have seen it, I caved. I need to see “the Newmans . . . succeed where the Botwins have failed.” I need to know what Dexter is going to do, now [...]

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