Brand X Ranch: Healers Now Patients

We are the Old Soldiers, we have stories, battle scars, and even some shrapnel to remind us of the way it was. So now, we must give way to the young guns, the new generation full of youth and enthusiasm and knowledge, who will take Medicine on to greater heights. I sat with my Friend yesterday as he told me about his newly diagnosed, rare disease. His life is ending, sooner than he planned. My other Friend fights, without complaint or bitterness, a relentless autoimmune disorder that would knock the sap out of a lesser woman. And, ugly MS symptoms try to take me out of the race, as well. What a team!! But we were really something, back in the day. … We three, the Healers, have become the patients/ JanTri , Brand X Ranch. More here .

• Lessons /A Butterfly Moment
• A Yankee Doodle’s reaction to Marmitetoasty /Atmospheric Ruminations
• Living at the speed of light /Bent’s Beer Garden
• Is religion dying away?/ Community Comment
• That will learn him /Marmitetoasty
• More below & coming

Question: Have you reached the point in your work or social life when you are beginning to relinquish the reins to younger people? Do you begrudge the situation? Or embrace it?

• More trails of tears /Accidental Rabbit Trails
• Piracy tolerated by shippers /Bay Views
• High seas piracy is no Johnny Depp movie /Dogwalk Musings
• Easter expense /Simple Mind
• The return on treating Alzheimers /F-Words
• Poem: The lily /Gathering Around The Table
• Never judge a book by its cover /JeanC’s Cat House & Shooting Gallery
• Umbrella /Rants, Rants, Random Things
• Some thoughts on Easter — there is a God /Silver Valley Stories
• Easter seals and such /Slight Detour
• Warmer days /Synaptic Disunion

HBO Numbers (for week of April 5-11): 37198/20993