Time flies it does (original) (raw)
January 7 2008, 08:13
Well a milestone has passed without incident....more or less.
Exactly four years ago, in 2004 for the math dummies, at this point I was in a coma which would continue for about six weeks. Damn Maryland teenagers in their SUVs and their habit of T-boning Zenkrak's car in the driver side door.. Now four years later after the hospital put me back together and helped put me back on my feet, literally, here I am. They didn't know if I was going to be able to walk, talk, feed myself, or most anything that we all take for granted in our daily lives.
So four years later how was my day? I woke up in the morning to my beautiful wife and our puppy nudging me to let him out. Then I heard the scampering of my step-daughter coming to make sure we were awake. She comes to stay the night at our house with us at times. So we got up and had morning coffee and made tasty bagels. Then I drove us to Hardees for some more breakfast yumminess. Then in the afternoon I went to work at the bookstore until about 10:30 (past my normal old-man bedtime).
Now here I am drinking my morning coffee and typing this. Later There are no plans for this day off from work. There will be much playing about online and maybe some reading. The is the possibility of a nice walk with the dog and misc. poking about, who knows. The whole point is that I am here and can actually do these things and I can enjoy them with the one that I love.
P.S. Send warm thoughts and positive healing energy and such toward my uncle in Maryland who was hit yesterday while on a bike ride. He is OK...sort of. From what i have been told it broke his arm/shoulder badly.
What a way to mark the anniversary of my near fatal accident in the same state huh?