RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “The Untouchables” (COVID MEMORIES)

The Untouchables (COVID MEMORIES) Politico and medicos message is trust none All seen a potential disease carrying scum All untouchables Ground zeros of infection Police powers imparting lessons and obedience Like dogs on a leash Results of a bungled vaccination policy Canadian provinces blame it on the feds Everyone the enemy Imprison for “safety” atContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “The Untouchables” (COVID MEMORIES)”

“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: LOST MY MANHOOD: SO GLAD TO BE AT HOME!

LOST MY MANHOOD: SO GLAD TO BE AT HOME! Bob was up at 06:00 which is unusual. I ordinarily tell him, in my way, up and at em because it is time to perform my ablutions. Even stranger he had a bowl with a spoon coated in peanut butter ready for me to lick cleanContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: LOST MY MANHOOD: SO GLAD TO BE AT HOME!”

RKS 2025 Short Film: “The Hemingway”: Elbows Up

Canada currently faces threats of economic decimation and political annexation by you know who. Canadians have adopted a fightback phrase “Elbows Up” a metaphorical reference to hockey players aggressively using their elbows to defend and possibly strike back at aggressors. Patrick Sean O’Brien is saddled with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) where the muscles atrophy inContinue reading “RKS 2025 Short Film: “The Hemingway”: Elbows Up”

RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “The Age of Water”: Drinking to Death and Toasting Economic Short-Term Prosperity

In the Mexican state of Guanajuato, the town of La Cantera has a serious water quality problem. Independent professional testing and verifications have determined its drinking water drawn from the town’s well has a high degree of radioactivity associated with volcanic rocks leading to the formation of radon gas surfacing below from the groundwater whereContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “The Age of Water”: Drinking to Death and Toasting Economic Short-Term Prosperity”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Hoping You Avoid The Great Hernia Misadventure

What more can I say than best of fortune in your hernia adventure. Unfortunately it is no snip snip and hop off the operating table with your “normal life” rushing up to embrace you. Expect pain of some degree and disruption in your routine. It took me a month before I could bend over andContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Hoping You Avoid The Great Hernia Misadventure”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Kindness, Compassion and Gratitude

If mindfulness encourages self compassion, it also is partial to you expressing compassion and kindness to all those suffering with hernias and who will undergo or recently have had completed some form of hernia surgery. Mindfulness would have you meditate transmitting positive and encouraging thoughts to these fellow human beings they experience as little anxiety,Continue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Kindness, Compassion and Gratitude”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Devolution of Pain Into Annoyance as a Pain Management Tool

Imagine on day 28 after your hernia procedure the pain remains unwavering. It is on the low level of let’s say 4 or 5 out of ten. You have given up on your over-the-counter pain meds as how much more can your body tolerate and at a certain point they don’t seem to annihilate orContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Devolution of Pain Into Annoyance as a Pain Management Tool”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  Recovery from Inguinal Hernia Surgery: The Terror of Anticipated Pain and Opioid Pain Relief

Dr. Google/ChatGPT explain the over-the-counter pain relief medications and the big guns like opioids the latter instilling, perhaps rightly so, terror of opioids. I am sure you have your personal perceptions of the evils of opioids. On a scale of 1-10 my view is I’ll take post hospital when my pain scale is a 12/10.Continue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  Recovery from Inguinal Hernia Surgery: The Terror of Anticipated Pain and Opioid Pain Relief”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Recovery from Inguinal Hernia Surgery: PAIN AND SUFFERING

There would seem some consensus as to some of the temporal aspects of pain after inguinal hernia surgery and the bottom-line conclusion of expect some pain is not debatable! What is not so easily ascertained is the length and severity of the pain. Pain is a relative concept. The degree of pain experienced by thoseContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Recovery from Inguinal Hernia Surgery: PAIN AND SUFFERING”