Brenda's Brainstorm & Trevor, a T Man Production 2009 - 2022

Trevor here, once again. It has been many months, since we last updated you. Much has been going on in Brenda's life. Some good and some, not so good. We want to bring out here, that even in the not so good things that have occurred, she was able to get through those, because of help from many kind people. That is going to be the premise of this blog post, helping others. Brenda went through, what we have referred to, as a year of medical challenges. It started out with a colonoscopy, where they found something not quite right, so they biopsied. Her surgeon, who is also a friend, just wanted to make sure they were not missing anything. He cared enough about Brenda, to take that extra step. We are happy to report that it turned out to be nothing serious, but being cautious is always a good thing particularly, because there is a family history. Next was her saga with her teeth. We touched on this before in another blog, which you can check out. 'A Tale of 2 Teeth' She r

Hello, it's Trevor, The Tell Tale Dog, to share another story of Brenda's life. In fact, this is actually going to be 3 stories, surrounding the same subject, her nose. Brenda had the great pleasure of taking an online writing course that CreakyJoints (I love that name) offered, taught by author, Lynn Lauber last summer. Here is an excerpt from that story. This will be in my own words. I hope good old Trevor here, can do it justice. BOL Brenda's mom, had told her this story many times. It seems while she was in the nursery, the nurses would just stare at her nose, because it was turned up a tiny bit and thought it was the cutest thing. Her mom always thought that her nose was her best feature, and when her deviated septum was discovered years later, she was afraid of what might happen, to as she put it "her beautiful nose." It was just a nose to Brenda that apparently got in the way of a door, when she was in grade school and ended up breaking h

Hey folks, it's Trevor here once again sharing another book review. This one is going to be a lot of fun to do. This particular person's book has had a big impact on so many people in the brain tumor community. So without further ado, we have a surprise for a very special person. He happens to think I rock and just for that, he certainly will get a dog bone, I mean a great review. BOL The book is titled, How Horseshoes Saved My Life: A tale of two brain tumors, by Rick Franzo.  Brenda became friends with Rick through his group that he started, Brain Tumor Talk. Wonderful title isn't it? Anyway, he had been working on writing this book and asked Brenda if she would like to see a rough not (ruff) draft? BOL I'm a dog, so ruff would make sense to me. So she read it and couldn't put it down. She just knew this was going to be a great book when it was published. She has spoken with Rick on the phone several times and one time, he asked her if should

Hi, Trevor here once again, to share another tale of Brenda's life. This is going to be about 2 teeth, that have been her nemesis for many years. Our title was inspired by the great author, Charles Dickens, with his Tale of Two Cities. We promise you, ours will not be that long. BOL It did start many years ago, with a nerve dying in one tooth, so a root canal was performed, by a dentist who specializes in them. By the time this was all said and done, several dentists and specialists will have been involved in this case. This was very complex to say the least. So she had the root canal performed almost on the wrong tooth, as he decided before starting, to test the nerves and low and behold, it was the tooth next to it. A crown was put on later and it seemed to be alright. Then the next tooth, the one that almost got a root canal in the first place, starting aching bad, so they decided to put a crown on it. She was told that a root canal was possible down the line

Hi, Trevor here once again, to bring our long awaited tale, that we have been promising you. This is going to be about things that Brenda is very passionate about. We ask that you read, with an open heart and mind. Brenda is very tenderhearted, but at the same time, she is also very passionate. She has gone through so much in the past three years. Brenda has been touched by tragedy in the form of 4 deaths in her family. She lost her beloved Mom, which she thought would destroy her, but someone came into her life just at the right time, and truly helped her see, that she still had some fight left in her. We don't want to say that he actually saved her life, but in a real sense he did, metaphorically that is. RA Guy was responsible for her getting back in the saddle, yes I love my westerns. He had a vision called "Show Us Your Hands!" If you have been our followers of our posts, you know what this is all about. We are not going to go into great detail here

Hi, it's Trevor here again. Sorry we have been absent for a while, but Brenda has been real busy and also has not been feeling that great. She is doing better now, so were are going to be doing something different this time. We are going to be sharing a book review. Brenda just read a wonderful book titled: "Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him," by Fmr. Army Capt. Luis Carlos Montalvan. Now any story about a golden, you know I would be all ready to read, if I could. BOL Brenda told me all about this wonderful bond between Tuesday and a wonderful man named Luis. I have heard of service dogs before, and how they really can change the lives of people, who are struggling, as Luis definitely was. He had come back from Iraq, where he had sustained a spinal cord injury and also a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Just for our readers here, it just happens to be National Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month, so this is pretty c

Hi, it's Trevor, The Tell Tale Dog, here with our first blog post of 2014.  We are going to start off by sharing some tips and tricks for you.  Living with a chronic illness can be a lot to juggle with at best, and Brenda has shared some great things with me, that I want to share with our readers.  This blog post was actually inspired by a couple of books that Brenda had a chance to read over the holidays.  So Young:  A Life Lived With Rheumatoid Arthritis by Daniel P. Malito, which she actually has been quoted on the back of this book.  What an honor that was for Brenda.  The second book was Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis:  Tools for Managing Treatments, Side Effects and Pain, by Lene Andersen.  You can purchase both of these books at Amazon. com. We will also just mention, that both of these writers, are featured bloggers for the CreakyJoints newsletter.  Here is the link.  http://www.creakyjoints.org/ Well, on with my tale.  Brenda has lived with Rheuma