Page views: 329 A dark chapter in the animal trade is coming to an end. It was a gigantic business. A place where animals were not treated as living beings, but as commodities. Zoo Zajac in Duisburg, known as the largest pet shop in the world, sold around 200,000 animals at a time on 12,000 square metres - including monkeys, reptiles, sloths, crocodiles, parrots, rodents and fish. A...
Page views: 147 About ALS, eye pain and underestimated diagnoses The Sunday question(s). In conversation with my sister. Sandra is my ophthalmologist. The fifth past interview, recorded on Monday, 24 February 2024. Katrin: How's the eye actually doing? Should I send the ophthalmologist a current photo? Patrick: Yesterday wasn't good. Better again today. Katrin: Can you pinpoint what...
Page views: 86 After the last intensive care stay, when it was clear... „a new intensive care service has been found and will soon be available“, we decided to go home a few days earlier. To enjoy the peace and quiet again before things really get going with familiarisation etc... Just to be alone for a few days... We had already realised in the intensive care unit that we were moving in together, into a new...
Pageviews: 106 Guest post by Yvonne Butter For all those who don't know me yet or know me or probably know me somehow.... and why I have decided to support relatives of people in need of intensive care at home online... ??I came to this wonderful planet over 40 years ago.... Until I was 30 years old, my life was quite...
Page views: 188 When we recently watched a political talk show on the German TV programme Ersten, the question of what the debt brake actually is came up. In conversation with one of my carers. The fifth past interview, recorded on Wednesday, 15 January 2025. Spelling corrected, apart from that unchanged. Bear with me, I wrote this off the top of my head in one piece. It's amazing how different opinions are....
Page views: 99 c There are times when the body simply won't play ball. Pain, exhaustion, the fight against illness - all this can paralyse you. But then there are these small, almost invisible miracles: a smile, a little inner peace, a spark of hope. And suddenly the healing process seems to take a leap forward. But why is that?.
Page views: 127 Sometimes pain is not the worst thing. It's the struggle to be heard. The daily struggle, in a world that keeps telling you what you need - without listening. It's been decided that I won't get any more painkillers until the next visit. The reasons? Oh, who knows. Maybe bureaucracy, maybe principles, maybe worries about side effects...
Seitenaufrufe: 82 Es ist nicht ein Sturm,sondern hundert flüsternde Winde,die leise schreien.Ein Tropfen auf brennender Haut,eine Unordnung im Spiegel des Tages Die Augen sprechen in Schmerz,nicht in Tränen.Sie sehen ein Meer aus Papier,aus Feuchtigkeiten, aus Schichten –ein Chaos ohne Zentrum. Der Tisch, der leer sein will,trägt die Last der Tage.Das Bett, ein Altar der Müdigkeit,gehüllt in Ringe, Rollen,und die...
Page views: 167 About conjunctivitis, conjunctivitis again and if I tell you now, I'll take all the suspense out of itThe Sunday question(s). In conversation with Marion and my sister. The third past interview, recorded on Thursday, 25 December 2024. Completed in the first week of January 2025. Patrick: How nice that you two are here. Today I'm turning the tables on you. Today I'm...
Page views: 130 Now that my right eye is getting better, my left eye is offended that it has had to do everything on its own for the past few weeks. And it looks like this: Right eye 31.12.2024 Left eye 1.1.2025 Plus my left ear, which has been „closed“ for weeks. And my world looks like this... In the morning. This short phase between dreaming and the...
