run on sentences

My friend Bob showed up today for our run barefooted and wearing some soccer shorts that must have belonged to one of his kids. It wasn't that he was in a hurry. He wasn't late meeting us at Dan's Foods where he, Tom and I agreed to meet. It was because no one in his family was awake to help him pull on his usual running shorts and get his socks and shoes on. Bob has ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. This disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually lead to their death. When the motor neurons die, the brain can no longer control muscle movement. Bob can't use his hands very well any more and has lost almost all of his upper body strength. Sadly in some ways, the mind is not affected and people with this disease are aware of how...

If you are one of the wonderful nurses who attended my lecture in Pittsburgh on writing for publication, welcome to my blog. You are the first group I have "put myself out there" for so feel free to comment. Let me say how much I enjoyed talking with you and I hope you will all publish something - nursing related or not. I know each of you have experiences in your job or experiences that are unique to your family - like the ones I have written about here. We are all connected and all alike in so many ways. Thanks for being such an attentive audience and for inviting me to speak. Someday you will see my book titled "Dirty Bathroom Dreams". I wish you all the best.