A decade. Already? Most times it feels closer to 10 minutes or maybe 10 months, but 10 laps around the sun means I have traveled nearly six billion miles without actually moving a muscle – yes, I did the math – which is pretty damn impressive. That kind of time and distance affords you the…
Category: Keeping perspective
Breaking the Habit
This blog is making me insane. My writing (or lack thereof) is making me nuts, too. As much as I wish both of those statements were true, I know that they are not. The only thing really making me feel bat-sh!t crazy right now is, wait for it… Me. There is a maxim out there…
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
It’s amazing how fast time flies when you’re busy “doin’ life.” The 6 months since I last posted have been a bullet train of consecutive surreal experiences, so buckle up for another crazy update! The shenanigans all began at the end of March when I attended peer mentorship training through the Christopher and Dana Reeve…
… And eating it, too.
I spent the last couple of days trying to come up with something earth shattering to commemorate the ninth anniversary of my accident. Hours were spent agonizing over mixed metaphors, word choice and tone. Then my night caregiver showed up for her shift with this: Yep, that’s a cake reenactment of the 40 foot fall…
Stealing someone else’s words
Hey, I’ve said before that I’m not above it. I have spent the last couple days (without sleep) trying to find the right words to commemorate today. I never would have thought they would show up secondhand in an e-mail my mom sent out to friends and loved ones this evening. Enjoy… Hi There, I…
Reason to Believe
George Carlin once said that, “inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist.” Well, after spending the near entirety of my adult life in The Bush Era, governed by the politics of Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, it should come as no surprise that I have viewed government, and our system as a whole, with…
Not just another day
So this is how it’s going to end?… I thought to myself, the helicopter blades beating their rhythmic cadence all around my lifeless body as the medevac carved its way through the night sky on its way to Harborview Medical Center. Barely able to breathe and slipping in and out of consciousness, I was sure…
Health-Scare
A nurse mentions surgery as my consciousness quickly fades. Most of the next week or so is blurred by a morphine haze. I wake up in a neck brace, and realize I have absolutely no feeling below my armpits. The muscles in my neck are on fire with pain. I have a feeding tube in…
Make your mark
So I was sitting in my hospital room the other day, high on a cocktail of morphine and Ativan (breakfast of champions), when my buddy Big Jim walked in. Yep, you read correct… my hospital room. Around 11 o’clock one Saturday last month, I started to get the chills, but didn’t think much of it. Just…
Happy birthday
St. Patrick’s Day. Such a goofy holiday (I mean, of all the saints that could be honored). Most of us think it has something to do with snakes in Ireland, anyhow. It’s mainly the day that gives that annoying kid in class an excuse to be even more of a nuisance, and the party crowd…
Kenny Salvini 