I am trepidatious

[mario_farufyno]

Good to know you're geting yourself back on track again, Peter. Be patient to get through the rehab process, our healing thoughts go with you.

[StephenR]

Healing vibes sent. Stay positive and focused and you will reach your goal. Meanwhile, this is a good place to vent if you need to, the community here cares!

[cozmik_cowboy]

Now my callouses are peeling off.

I appreciate the offer a venting ear, Stephen, but if I started, it would not take long before none of you ever wanted to hear from me again, so.....


Suffice it say I am pissed as all hell, thoroughly discouraged, and feeling extremely weak & helpless - which is not a fun place to be in.  But I will try to save for dumping on therapists here, OK?


Peter

[pauldo]

All though I don’t have a certificate, my birth initials ARE PhD.

Let ‘er rip Peter.

May not have answers, certainly don’t have solutions but willing to be a sounding board...

Let me throw this at you:
Up until this time in your life you have survived 100% of your worse days ever - do not stop now. ♥️

[cozmik_cowboy]

Staples removed today; you can't imagine how much more comfortable this damn wheelchair is without 30 pieces of surgical steel in the small of my back.

Also - today, microscopic movement - intentional movement - just in front of the inside right ankle bone!!!!  I mean, the foot ain't nowheres near actually moving, it was more like a tic - but I told it to move, and something happened!
At this rate I'll be able walk to my seat at my granddaughters' weddings................

Peter

[pauldo]

Progress! :-D

[edwardofhuncote]

Grand-dude is making a comeback. 

[cozmik_cowboy]

Positive test on the ward; my daily 3 hour visit with Her is over for the foreseeable future.
This sucks.

Peter

[pauldo]

poop

:-(

Hang in there Peter! 
FaceTime is a fun and functional tool these days... just sayin'.

[cozmik_cowboy]

I have my laptop here; it seems to have a camera, but the software says it doesn't.  I have a message into my friend the systems analyst to see if he can suss it.  If not, I order a monitor-mount camera tonight.

Peter (whose test from yesterday, BTW, came back negative)

[cozmik_cowboy]

Second positive test on the ward.  All therapy will now be in our rooms - which precludes at least 99% of the work, and thus both impedes my progress and extends my stay massively - over and above the risk to my health & life.

I will steer clear of the politics ban by refraining from what I think would be a non-political and purely logical rant against morons who try to make a public health crisis into a political issue, but I will urge you all to vote - and I think you can extrapolate what a proper vote would be.


Peter (who apologizes if that crossed the line - but who is really pissed [and more more than a little scared])

[lbpesq]

Peter:

I'll cross the line for you.  As Peter says, GO OUT AND VOTE.  And this vote isn't about individuals or political parties.  It's about democracy vs. fascism.  It's about science vs. witchcraft.  It's about free thinking vs. cult mentality.  Have things in this nation degenerated so much that stating that Biden, Kamala, and Hillary ARE NOT drinking the blood of children is a frowned upon political statement?   Has our nation been duped by Goebbels' "Big Lie"?

Bill, tgo (who hopes that at least Peter gets to see this before it's censored)

[hankster]

Peter, your situation is breaking my heart. I am so worried for you. And in my book you can say whatever you want. You have the floor, sir.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Thank you, Bill. 
It just infuriates me that over 220,000 Americans and - counting rapidly - have died needlessly because fools have tried to turn a national medical crisis* into a political issue, and get their medical advise from a moronic "reality" TV host and a bunch of reich-wing internet basement dwellers instead of from scientists.

*U.S./ Constitution, Article 1, Sec. 8:
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;" (emphasis mine)

There you have it right there; a specifically delegated power of the Federal government, and interpreted as such in centuries of jurisprudence: So much for the "But muh freedumbs!!" bulls**t.

Peter

[paulman]

Second positive test on the ward.  All therapy will now be in our rooms - which precludes at least 99% of the work, and thus both impedes my progress and extends my stay massively - over and above the risk to my health & life.

I will steer clear of the politics ban by refraining from what I think would be a non-political and purely logical rant against morons who try to make a public health crisis into a political issue, but I will urge you all to vote - and I think you can extrapolate what a proper vote would be.


Peter (who apologizes if that crossed the line - but who is really pissed [and more more than a little scared])

Peter this sucks,  hang in there!

As for the message, I remember Pogo possum ran for office in the swamp.  His platform was to GO OUT AND VOTE!  No party or political affiliation.  I am glad someone on this forum knows Pogo.

Glad your staples are out at least!