At the end of 2023 I wrote on Caring Bridge: “I may post again when there is a major milestone, e.g. walking unaided…But that might be posted to my blog instead…” (unless I have a relapse, the Caring Bridge site will sit as is..so Blog it is) I began walking short distances unaided a couple…
Tempus fugit…or some such shit… When I last posted (on 11/24/23) I expected to post a week or so later about my second week in the hospital with lots of goodies from “my gizmo” (the dictaphone that I wrote about in that post). November 24 was almost 90 days ago?!?! WTAF have I been doing…
“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…