{"id":26034,"date":"2024-01-22T17:29:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T22:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=26034"},"modified":"2024-01-22T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T22:30:33","slug":"episode-1008-convalescing-doing-hard-time-but-could-be-far-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=26034","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 1008: CONVALESCING — DOING HARD TIME BUT COULD be FAR WoRSE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOte:  Some readers may miss my daily story.  Some may think I am unwelll.<\/div>\n
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True.   had knee surgery De. 12.  Surgery went well.  Recovery has not been
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all sweetness and light.  No time to write.  I spend my time doing physical exercises to reduce pain and hasten recovery.  Bumpy road with little sleep.  Hate the pain.<\/p><\/div>\n


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So here  I am one month after knee surgery with one of the<\/div>\n
Queensway hospital physio persons.   Her name is Eva and her body must be made off <\/div>\n
rubber .  My body is not made of rubber.  It is made of old bone broken nerve connections.   When I was young a Junkman cruised our streets yelling \u201cRags, bones and bottles\u201d\u2026if he was around here today Marjorie might boost me on with alll the other junk.<\/div>\n
I could not resist.   Why would she do that?  Her work load is enormous.  She does everything including my socks, shoes and more delicate things. All because of those<\/div>\n
two little words\u2026\u201dI do.”<\/div>\n

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\u201c If you do the exercises three times a day you will walk again\u201d, Alan .\u201d says Eva.<\/div>\n
(note the word \u201cif\u201d)<\/div>\n

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In other words I am responsible for my own recovery.  Not so sure I\u2019m up to the task.<\/div>\n
Since entering the hospital on December 12, 2023  my muscles have weakened.Seem to have gone looking<\/div>\n
for a better body.  That says a lot for loyalty.  Muscles like good bodies Not my body<\/div>\n
They are only around for the good times<\/div>\n

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Today, January 20, 20 4, I need a walker to move from room to room.  <\/div>\n
Today it took me 24 minutes to put on my underwearl and<\/div>\n
 pants with Marjorie\u2019s help loosening sock tops from baby toes. <\/div>\n

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Today my life is circumscribed by a 15 x15 foot room.   No grand vistas of the <\/div>\n
Fifth line of  Erim tpwmship.  Like our cat, Chelsea Bun, I perch beside the windows<\/div>\n
and watch the sqirrels revel in their freedom.<\/div>\n

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Today,,,”CUT THE SELF-PITY, ALAN!\u201d, my mind screams. <\/div>\n
 \u2018YOU LIVE WELL<\/div>\n
ONLY PROBLEM YOU FACE IS A LOST KNEECAP”<\/div>\n

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Today there are people sleeping in door ways\u2026over heat vents wrapped in<\/div>\n
vermen laden sleeping bags.  No care givers.  No income.  No rainbow at the end <\/div>\n
of  the road.  Only escape for some is an overdose on opioids.<\/div>\n

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HOW MY TIME IS SPENT<\/div>\n

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So I spend a lot of time counting lame Canadians.   people like me or far<\/div>\n
worse than me.There are lots of them pushing their walkers in roof clad malls<\/div>\n
as we will do wen the pain eases.<\/div>\n

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We have four walkers.  one for the first floor, one for the second floor and a<\/div>\n
hey duty machine for city streets.. and one for spare parts.  All bought from our<\/div>\n
local Salvation Army Departmntt store. Two of them have fake headlights thanks to <\/div>\n
the advice from Caroline Laughton who whispered \u201cYou will need portable urinals.\u201d<\/div>\n
So Marjorie bought four (two for regular need and two for emergency need).<\/div>\n
I remembered my brother\u2019s advice \u2026\u201dNever pass a washroom \u2026 do so at your own <\/div>\n
peril.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u2018ENOUGH, ALAN\u2026MORE THN ENOUGH<\/div>\n

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bryce\u2026HOW BAD IS CURRENT COVID?  Recovered?<\/div>\n
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NOte:  Some readers may miss my daily story.  Some may think I am unwelll. True.   had knee surgery De. 12.  Surgery went well.  Recovery has not been all sweetness and light.  No time to write.  I spend my time doing physical exercises to reduce pain and hasten recovery.  Bumpy road with little sleep.  Hate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}