Five Questions, Five Answers: Recovery Process

Q1. You are weaning yourself off pain meds, but are still relegated to sit still. As your brain fog clears, what do you plan to do with your time today?

A1. I have a commitment to do the following things:

• get therapeutic massage treatment (trying my best not to scream like a wounded animal when my injured bits worked over)
• exchange materials at the library after appointment
• attend to correspondence from SGI
• resume research and hunting for vehicles online
• rebuilding a new training schedule (dependant upon medical consults)
• make appointment to get bike tuned up*
• provisionally, figure out bus schedules for work and downtown*

Q2. What were the wildest pain-killer induced hallucination experiences you had?

A2. Anything to do with watching and tracking movement. For example, using the elevator in my building. Instead of watching the elevator move up and down, it felt like as I watched the elevator lower, that the elevator stood still, and the whole rest of the building was moving up and down. At times, Ella scurrying across the floor looked like a weird black blur. It probably makes matters worse with me experimenting with new contact lens and reading glasses.

Q3. What are/were you reading/watching on TV for entertainment?

A3. Continuing to read non-fiction: At Home, by Bill Bryson. Magazines: Wired, Popular Science, Make, Popular Mechanics, Consumer Reports, PC World. I'm following Vikings from the History Channel, and catching up on Hannibal on television. The favourite movies were Django Unchained, Men in Black III. I have been tuning into a lot of the TEDx video lectures, and some thought provoking documents as well. To tame my anger, I did my best to avoid the endless news loops about that idiot Boston bombing suspect, and the Al Qaida linked terrorist bastards they arrested in Toronto and Montreal.   

Q4. What has been the most useful assistance you've had during this process?

A4. The chiropractic work, and a five meter length of HDMI cable connecting my laptop and TV in my living room.

Q5. What are the ones you wish you had?

A5. Someone to do my laundry, take out garbage, and do all the rest of my spring cleaning for me. Having someone around to take the dog for long walks would have been useful as well.

*- The tire wear is quite bad, and I'm sensing imminent strut/suspension failure; thus it will be going to the wrecking yard sooner than I anticipated. So, I'm planning alternate transportation in the event I don't find a replacement very soon.