neurorehabilitationFromTheTrenches

As the title suggests, I'm going to talk once more about my double vision. What do you mean that wasn't clear? OK, I'll admit it, that was a cynical ploy by me to appeal to my Japanese and Honduran readerships. More on that in the Appeal section. One of the many take-homes I had from Autonomie was a factoid I learned from my Logopädin. Namely, the reason for the ubiquitous eye-patch seen on a pirate, is not what you might believe. My memories of pirates, from my childhood, were based on the stereotypical pirate with the eye-patch and hook-for-a-hand. I put 2 and 2 together, with no google to research, and deduced that he must have accidentally gouged his eye out. I thought it was safe to assume that an eyepatch is to prevent infection of, and staring at, a wound the pirate had received or inadvertently given to himself. I could not have been more wrong. As I have since confirmed, the eye-patch was used unintuitively to give the wearer the power to see in the dark. Imag

Happy brain injury awareness month! I failed in my new year's resolution, to submit an article each week. This necessitates two actions. Firstly, and most importantly, I need to urge you to submit a guest article, as I've said, in any language, declan.treanor@gmail.com -- we have google translate, so it's not too much to expect readers of this blog to use it -- and, secondly, I mean to compensate for a weak February, with a busier-than-usual March. We might even break our current record of 8 in a single month. This month is perfectly primed for a record, given that it started with a weekend and has 31 days. Last weekend, I enjoyed a visit from my friends Cathal and Stephen. As you can see Cathal introduced sophistication to Bergedorf with his coat. It even got its own seat on the plane, both ways. This was helped by the corona virus, but who'd expect a coat like that to have to stay crumpled in a ball in the overhead luggage compartment?