How many times have you heard, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”?  For many New Englanders, it’s a kind of mantra–like “pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps,” which, when you think about it, is an impossible task.  People may try to lose weight, stop smoking, cut back on caffeine, or get pregnant.  But not really.  They either do lose weight, stop smoking, cut back on caffeine, get pregnant or not.

While this is a cute chart, every step until the top is an unsuccessful not.  Only the top is a successful do.

Back on April 21st, I had a car accident when I blanked out at the wheel and drove my car off the road.  While I never appeared to lose consciousness, I did lose a little over three days of memory.  Subsequent testing seem to indicate that I have a predisposition for seizures.  Not the cardiac or pulmonary…