Author: vicSocotra

Situation Report 23 April 2025

Sorry, Folks. Got caught in charging hell and some details went down with devices dead as door-nails. Sequentially. The Apple laptop got hung up on something, iPhone cord got snapped in the hospital bed moving parts. Then the phone died and had to be dispatched to the nursing station in the next Zip Code. The […]

Situation Report 21 April 2025

HOLY SMOKES! LUNCH WAS SO GOOD AND SO PLENTIFUL that I COULDN’T FINISH IT! It reminded me I havn’t had a decent meal in nearly three months! Maybe I should back up up a little and get us on generally the same sheert of music. Today was scheduled to be a luncheon tour of the […]

Situation Report 20 April 2025

Afternoon, Gentle Friends and Family! I have had a busy day attempting to organize a modest week of activity that in more ordinary times could- oops, BP: 110/66- normally be accomplished with a couple calls or texts before breakfast. Some of the stuff is differentiated by proximity and chronology. Some is legitimate “old news” masquerading […]

JR Situation Summary 13 April 2025

Gentle Readers, I apologize for the erratic and volatile stream of these situation reports. They were intended to convey the stark horror of entering the health system as a fairly sentient adult and having independence shorn away in a manner equivalent to being beaten and incarcerated after having stuck up the 7-11 Bodega down at […]

Situation Report 12 April 2025

I tried to write to you yesterday, but it turned out bleak and could only send it to a few. My spirits were down due to the the condition of my confinement and the persistent low mutterings of “Hello!” and “Nurse!” that emanated through the afternoon and deep into the night from the occupant of […]

Situation Report 10 April 2025

A quick one today with nothing on the schedule except sponge bath and personal yoga. Expect a therapy session but no evidence of one appearing as yet. If one appears, intend to walk and demonstrate desired capabilities while protecting ankle from further damage. The Medication Specialist made her weekly visit to confirm reduction in morning […]

Situation Report 09 April 2025

There was a late note from Paula yesterday reminding me of the Appointment by stretcher today. Subject? Urinary was the one word description,which I think is about the quality of my kidneys and the urine they are producing. I hope I can ask for removal of the Foley device which requires the catheter. Based on […]

Situation Report 08 April 2025

I put a picture of the wound under discussion today that actually predates the dramatic femoral artery intervention. Then I deleted it as too graphic. It was, I think, a problem that dated back to the period of the 44-mile round-trip drives from the Farm in Culpeper to the wound specialist in Warrenton for weekly […]

Saint Patrick Celebrates: The Freedom of Our Seas

Saint Patrick Celebrates: The Freedom of Our Seas

Today featured a visit for the ages! It was one that evoked the spirit of Saint Patrick’s Days spent with comrades in distant places with a sense of solidarity and will. It is hard to compare unless you have shared some over the 47 years since I first saw Bronco in his crisp green Nomex […]

Arrias and His Muse: Comes the Spring

A silver Moon in a lapis sky, Perhaps a hint of frost, But tree frogs chirp to greet the dawn, And winter’s hard edge seems lost. Small buds seem to fill all the trees, Though the grass is still brown and dead, And no daffodils or day Lillies yet, But all the trees are tipped […]