Carl Lance

The procedure

I had a medical procedure done this week. That name sounds so vague, so clinical, so nondescript that I don’t know why they use it. Perhaps the words are meant to convey reassurance as they tell you they need to cut you open and remove something that is causing you pain. Some people have a […]

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The Sleep Study

To be more precise, it was a study about what I do when I sleep. I sometimes have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep or going back to sleep after waking up. I also have some symptoms of sleep apnea, which can interrupt breathing and restful sleep. That’s why I ended up becoming the subject of

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The Change

     My grandson calls me Grandpa-Far-Far-Away, because he lives in Texas, and I lived overseas for all his 11 years.  Yes, we visited as often as we could and stayed in contact as much as possible, but we always lived “far-far-away.”   That changed when I retired and moved back to Texas.  Now I see him quite a lot.  I

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The Winner!

Hondo, Texas doesn’t sound like the birthplace of a winner. It isn’t much of a town now and must have been less 74 years ago when he was born there. What a place to start out, as it is too far from San Antonio to benefit from their jobs and there wasn’t much of a

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