Niki Naeve

December 15, 2023 Dearest Dad, I’m afraid that, once again, you have mistaken me for someone with unlimited time, energy and inclination to believe they can do a better job at a formal investigation than the DOJ, federal officers in Delaware, and/or a pack of trained lawyers regarding a laptop.  Since this is your fifth Read more

The Body Beat August 2023 Hello and happy summer, everybody! I know no one will read this whole thing, and that’s very much all right. Yes, I write these things to have my wounds kissed, but just as much to organize and crystallize information in my own head.  The medical stuff makes more emotional sense Read more

October 2022 So It Appears I Finally Have A Plan… Houston, it appears I finally have a plan. Sort of. This week I met with the generous vascular surgeon Kurtis Kim, (thanks to a grant from a grateful patient of his) and a bariatric surgeon from UCHealth, Dr. Akshay Chauhan. Between them (and more than Read more

So, here’s my Covid-19 – related story today. Of course it probably wouldn’t have been Covid-19 related if it had happened a month ago.  But today I got to see what life is like for the amazing folks at Urgent Care and and an ER prepped to the nines for the oncoming wave. So February Read more

State of the Niki, April 20, 2019 “When you’re healthy, you have a thousand dreams.  When you are sick, you have but one dream.”  – Unknown So this is the latest: I’m seeing a new Immunologist, Dr. Isaac Melamed, and a new Rheumatologist, Dr. Stuart Kassan. Dr. Melamed ordered a total of 46 tubes of blood Read more