It’s been quite a while, dear reader, since I last published. I had all the good intentions in the world about this blog, but then life happened, and it got a bit dramatic, too. You see, I have this chronic kidney disease called igA nephropathy, and just after I published my last blog post in March, I started to feel very ill. My mother, who lives a few blocks away, came down and called the ambulance, and soon I found myself in the emergency room with a doctor confirming that “you are very ill now”. My blood pressure was through the roof, and the blood work soon confirmed that my…