January 2020 Two years passed by, relatively quickly, in a sense. Some major things happened along the way. I ended up learning a great deal about how to pace myself in order to level out my energy levels. I spent some time down in Bethesda, Maryland, being a bit of a guinea pig for a […] The post January 2020 in My Encephalitis and New Directions first appeared on Shawn P. B. Robinson ..read more

January 2018 At work, I did what I could. But, as the weeks and months passed by, what I could do was less and less all the time. As my wife researched the matter, she found a paper by the National Institute of Health in the US that pointed out this was common with post-encephalitis […] The post January 2018 in My Encephalitis and New Directions first appeared on Shawn P. B. Robinson ..read more

Friday, February 10, 2017 and the following months   In the weeks that followed, I found my life had changed. Significantly. I dealt with headaches all the time—something I rarely struggled with before. Or truthfully… a single headache that never left and only varied in intensity. I was suddenly weak. Sure, some of the muscle […] The post Day Fifteen and Beyond of My Encephalitis and New Directions first appeared on Shawn P. B. Robinson ..read more

Thursday, February 9, 2017   I awoke with my normal pain in my head, my itchy forehead, an uncomfortable eye, but no fear of belly needles.   It was already shaping up to be a good day.   I had nurses scheduled to come to my home each day. Their job was to make sure […] The post Day Fourteen of Encephalitis and New Directions first appeared on Shawn P. B. Robinson ..read more

Wednesday, February 8, 2017   The day finally came.   They relaxed their guard and decided the world would be safe once again with my presence among the general population. I was no longer a threat to public safety, and they no longer needed to protect the world from me.   I just had to […] The post Day Thirteen of Encephalitis and New Directions first appeared on Shawn P. B. Robinson ..read more

Monday, February 6, 2017   On Monday, I woke up to the familiar sound of a nurse walking into my room, giggling with glee at what she was about to do to my belly. Some nurses could do it with less pain than others, but I think they were just the less experienced ones. The […] The post Day Eleven of Encephalitis and New Directions first appeared on Shawn P. B. Robinson ..read more

Sunday, February 5, 2017   On Sunday, I continued to write.   If you’ve read my Arestana series, you know it’s pretty odd and silly. Since I hadn’t planned on publishing it, I didn’t hold back. I knew what made my sons laugh, and I jumped in with both feet. I had a lot of […] The post Day Ten of Encephalitis and New Directions first appeared on Shawn P. B. Robinson ..read more

Saturday, February 4, 2017   On Saturday, they placed me in an isolation room in the hospital.   An isolation room is a strange thing.   As you sit in your bed with the negative air pressure, you realize that by placing you in that room, they are declaring you to be dangerous to the […] The post Day Nine of Encephalitis and New Directions first appeared on Shawn P. B. Robinson ..read more

Friday, February 3, 2017   Lumbar Puncture…   I almost didn’t go.   The doctor who declared two days before that I’d had a seizure also decided that I should go to the Urgent Care Neurological Centre (UCNC) in London (not London, UK… London, ON). Since I didn’t want to believe that I’d had a […] The post Day Eight of Encephalitis and New Directions first appeared on Shawn P. B. Robinson ..read more

  Hey everyone! I wanted to share with you my exciting news! Ridge: Day One, my debut Fantasy Thriller Novel, is out today! This novel has been in the works for about four years... The post Ridge: Day One has launched! appeared first on Self Publishing on a Budget ..read more