Monthly Archives: October 2019

I started working in our living room this morning. Caroline, my wife, left the apartment to take out some garbage. She was wearing my hearing-assistance microphone, and when she left, I heard her whimper. When she came back, she said that someone in the next apartment was making bacon or sausage. Then, about thirty seconds […]

If I’ve given you the impression that it’s been all fun, games, and excitement since this journey started, that’s a wrong impression: it’s not. As I write this, I have a very heavy heart – the mountain seems so high, the goal so unreachable, the required time infinite. I don’t see any light at the […]

Well, the first weekend of the rest of my life is over. It has been a weekend of learning and of discovery. I have discovered that if you put a little effort into it, you can make veggies interesting. Corn with a little bit of butter and a little bit of salt actually, gulp, has […]

And so we started things going today. My appointment with Lisa was scheduled for 2:00 in the afternoon, and I had asked Caroline to please join me. We are in the midst of a huge October snowstorm, very unusual for this time of year, so Lisa and I determined that the best way to go […]

Thank you for looking at my blog. In case you’ve somehow stumbled on this accidentally, my name is Bruce Toews. I thought I’d make my first post to the blog an introduction, explaining what I’m doing and why I’m doing it. I am very obese. I have been all my life. The matter was really […]