The arrival of the new room-mate has been an irritating entertainment. He appeared on a rolling cart yesterday in mid-afternoon, attempting to command the Rehab staff to bend to his will. I think his name is Ken, though there were no introductions. I recognized some of it from my own behavior last month, and the […]

We weren’t sure about what to do today. There was the natural inclination to blow things off with the weekend but the serious discussion with case manager Paula suggested there were already too many new best friends suddenly huddled by the fire and we need to stay focused through the case management meeting on Monday […]

My crowd worked in the Pentagon for two military tours of duty, or about six years spread across nearly a dozen in the District. There were some classic days there, mostly when I still had time to worry about how things worked and what the limits of professional conduct were. I was theoretically assigned to […]

“Morning!” Is how this would have started when the first message came into the scrambled stack seen just before dinner. At morning in a western square state, it had been 25 under cloudy skies. I answered about it being 81 under cloudy skies now in the face of the oncoming front, a quick check showing […]

The institution which is managing our Rehabilitation started slowly today, easing itself into another vigorous week of emphatic success. That is what the Socotra House Legal Section told us to say, and to be flattering to both the Occupational and Physical Therapy staffs who are managing the process. We tried that, but the other stuff […]

I did not make any measurable therapeutic progress today. It was almost a perfect 360-degree arc from last Tuesday’s launch for recovery into disaster Wednesday, followed by Triumphant Thursday and into a satisfied Friday festooned with pride but without new landmarks. The weekend was marked by gentle Yoga and a few sit-ups and the onset […]

It would be premature to wish I understood the icons on this app too insert some bursting arcs of triumph here. I also understand overestimating the consequences of one good day after a host of days filled the clouds of struggle. But it is Spring, darn it, and this is the peak day of the […]

A day in which some Lessons-Learned yesterday were applied and others fell, in the manner of the Depends briefs on the return run from the Nurse’s Station at the end of Wing 1 North after all this . You can dispense with the details or skip to the end to see whose end is in […]

Summary: Most miserable day of recovery. It was not a function of over-exertion in anything in particular but rather a failure to recognize the important and significant excercise in simply sitting upright in one degree of gravity. The stranded Astronaut recover on return to Earth are an extreme example of the recovery necessary after a […]