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Daily Life

  • I have some experience with different hospital types. This post is spurred by the conversation with the chaplain the other day — knowledge of God. v. the knowledge of man. He said the fruits of knowledge concerning God were good, but he didn’t acknowledge that the knowledge man acquires may not be from or of… Read more

  • Three days, I guess. Today, I don’t have any visitiors, that I know of. Jason is safely back at the office. Little Sister is taking a self-care day. Mom is concentrating on other things. Good. Good. Good. I hate it when everyone has to drive an hour, chat about stuff for an hour, and then… Read more

  • I just finished a walk. The vac started to feel heavy and I was out for around half an hour. In case the Other stops by and we walk around, I wanted to take a break. I can also walk later, and if there are concerns that I’m moving too much, they could take away… Read more

  • Okay… This isn’t an old post. Rather, this is something that occurred to me while Mom was visiting. Loosely… Back in the 20s, marriage’s purpose was survival, children, alliance. It was in that order. Men and women united for surivial because what else was there? A core, if not THE, pillar of society was marriage… Read more

  • Last night was a little difficult. Well, difficult that I couldn’t get away with a lot. The tech Nick and nurse Busbo didn’t speak English well. They seemed competent, but they did everything strictly by the book. That meant that all bed alarms were on. When I declined the anti-blood clot belly stick, they gave… Read more

  • 10/22 – Part Two

    Okay. It’s taken me about an hour, but I think that I can use the arm. I’m just settling down. It’s taken me about an hour and a half, shamefully, but I have to pull myself back together. I think I took a nap somewhere in there. Scotty came in and asked if I was… Read more

  • 10/22 — Countdown – 8

    While eight days from now isn’t my release, it’s the next step on this long and phone-shattering gravel road. I’ll probably be released three or four days after, pending fate. But I feel that the honeymoon between the staff and me has completely shifted. In a recent post, I created a type of list for… Read more

  • 10/20 Day… ? Five? Four?

    Day ? I think it’s Tuesday. Someone told me it is. Updates – It’s almost time to order lunch. No update on plastics. Don’t know that. I keep getting an ever-revolving staff picks, understandable. Checked in on my non-class class. Satisfying; my replacement is a WHOPPING 70 assignments behind. That’s 20 more than yesterday. —… Read more

  • Three palword playstyles.

    I meant to type this a while ago. But stuff happened, and now that I have some hospital time, I thought I’d push it out. The Baby Sister, Other, and I all started playing Palword. How we reacted and interacted with the game’s goals is fastly different. It’s interesting. As a kind of future note,… Read more

  • 10/18

    Well, here I am. It got done. The piece that made me robotic – my spine – has been compromised. Well, more than that. It’s gone. I have one more date to add to my calendar – Oct 15. It’ll be added to the day Dad died, the day it went in, and now the… Read more