PSW's Blog

There are many blessings in my life.  Being able to walk on the ceiling is not one of them but the others are doing their best to compensate. Undoubtedly the greatest and most constant is my wife, Mary.  Basically my day consists of lying here and asking for things.  The staff at The Laurels will do a lot but Mary is the one who will go searching for the obscure item I need from home and then try to make it work for me, all while satisfying her own church and family commitments.  She has been adapting her life to mine for a long time. Read More →

From most of the generally offhand comments from doctor and Therapists, it seems likely that I will be in braces for months.  Luckily that does not seem to mean that I will be here for that long.  Appears that, if my improvement continues apace and we get a few mods done at home, then I could go home in a couple weeks. We are blessed to have friends in construction, so the ramps and the conversion of a tub bath to a walk in shower should occur next week.  Those will make the house accessible. The other major mod is disposing of my easy chairRead More →

Simple things make life improvement.  After getting my staples out and my new braces and boot, it became possible to remove the braces and boot and have … a shower.  I still don’t have mobility on my own, so it was a full fledged production number involving two therapists, a wheelchair and bench, and a number of assistive devices, but it happened and it felt really good. Now I need to get to where it is a simpler process. Nope, no pictures of this.  Doing us all a favor.

My roommate is checking out today. I think I have been quite lucky. Nice guy and no conflicts. But he has the window. And the AC. I have just been asked if I would like the window unit after he leaves. I said yes, so we will see if there is any real advantage. … Here are pictures of my new space.                     Not as roomy as it may look but nice to have a window, if only for the extra light. Keith and Vanya brought me the Pitcher Plant. I do have a new roomie.  Not as alert and chatty as the previous oneRead More →

Oxycontin is my friend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone Things went very well yesterday. I had about convinced myself I would be fine on just tylenol. Got my new braces in the late afternoon. They felt fine. …… …… . {The braces have a hinge that can be locked to provide a limited range of motion. I think 10 degrees is what is prescribed at the moment but therapy will increase that over time.} .. … until about 8 pm. Then, although everything else felt fine, I started getting shooting pains in my right big toe. Like a little demon with a hot needle was stabbing it. Every coupleRead More →