Month: November 2023

“It still doesn’t seem Real” ends with me being paralyzed. This piece, and any that follow, will be getting help with excerpts from “my gizmo.” The “gizmo” is a Sony Dictaphone. {I bought one for my Dad several years ago in the hopes that he would tell lots of his stories into it, so that…

Eight weeks ago, on September 18, I woke up in the Critical Decision Unit at Cox South Hospital in Springfield, MO.  Five days earlier I had my 75th birthday. I was paralyzed from the shoulders down. I could move NOTHING. As I tell the story, as I see my body that morning in my mind’s…