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winning at “words with friends”

January 11, 2012

I wrote at this site every day for a while. Not because I had critically important thing to say, but because my therapists would recommend working my brain. Write, they said. Think, they said. Post, they said. But, do it well. Notice they didn’t say THAT! After I got back in the habit of posting [...]

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taking it all off

May 15, 2011

Before you watch this video I should explain a few thing. My dress isn’t crooked. I wear it that way on purpose.  All the cool kids are doing it these days. That’s a seatbelt I’m wearing for safety. I wear it all the time.  It’s ugly.  I know.  So is face-planting. That lump square on [...]

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yes, this

March 16, 2011

*This is not an ask for money* *Do not start a therapy-pool fund or I’ll be forced to stab myself in the face with marshmallows* *Sharp stuff hurts, yo* *But, I am serious* Peter’s trying to build something. He’s always trying to build something. Or taunting me with the something that he’s going to build [...]

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they started the path

January 13, 2011

I got interviewed for the magazine Shepherd Hospital publishes. Shepherd Center is the hospital that helped me get home. There outpatient program at Pathways was a huge part of my therapy progress. Yeah, I have a LONG way to go. To getting better. Not to a casket. I’m well enough to be writing my story. [...]

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i sound like a freaking Gatorade commercial

November 9, 2010

I got the news I was anticipating and dreading. My times at rehab for OT and Speech have come to an end. It’s not that I won’t have a lot of work.  It’s that right now they’ve taught me all the exercises they can. They’ve showed me all the tricks it’s safe to teach me. [...]

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days that are hard

September 7, 2010

It’s hard. Being in a wheelchair. Struggling for everything you get. Dreaming of the normal only to wake to reality. Therapy is difficult. It’s one thing to have pain. It’s another to know the pain is coming and you have to pay to endure it. It sucks. Sometimes it gets no more eloquent than that. [...]

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I really need a different posse

August 29, 2010

Let’s get a few thing straightened out.  Everything may not be totally clear. I have three therapists at Pathways, which is a part of the Shepherd Center, where I do my outpatient therapy. Physical therapy – done by Beth, this deals with my walking, transferring,  lower extremities, getting up when I fall, pool exercise and [...]

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