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My Dog Molley...who is my Service Animal...had to have her right eye removedTuesday. There was a large tumor inside, and no way to save it. She is now recoverin and doing well. She has been taking this better than I have, I am the one who was a wreck! lol Just an FYI to let everyone know she is good, thank you.
To any and all who wonder if I do not respond to you this next week: I am on a road trip to North Dakota. Lisbon, to be exact. I iwll nto be in and iwll get back to everyone sometime the week after :)
Sam
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ok, I just got chastised for not starting a journal. Thing is, I am a bit self concious, so I basically believe I SUCK at these things. I am also not that self-introspective anymore...hahaha
in 1990, I hit a small boulder head first going 45 mph. I was on a 12 speed bike going down hill when a car ran me off the road on purpose. He was honking his horn and swerving at me, playign lets mess wiht the bike rider. I lay in the road for 45 min, (on a Sunday, no less) until a 7 year odl little girl came along and found me. She went home and said "Mommy, come see the dead man!" "Mommy" called the ambulance company, who picked me up an hour after my crash (we figure).
I was dead for three minutes at the hospital.
Since then, I have re-learned how to walk, talk, eat, drink, and think. My left eye is closed (nerve damage), and I can no longer paint, draw, or play guitar like I used to. I have short term emeory issues to this day (I wirte things down alot), am slightly numb on the left side of my body, and fight a daily struggle to maintain emotional stability and calm reasoning.
Part of my Voc Rehab was testing, and it turned out I have aptitudes in Nursing/Therapy. They paid for me to become aCertified Nurses Aid. Since then, I have studied Phelbotomy, and worked my way into becoming a Rehab Therapy Technician. I also have developed and run an Animal Assisted Therapy Program in the hospital I work in.
I have my down days just like I have my up days. Just like you. Some things I will work with, struggle with, all my life. That IS life. I do the BEST I can do every day, in every situation, and move on. I hope and work to make sure that the following day, I do it better.
Questions? Comments? Contact me. I might even give an answer that makes sense! hahaha
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Good job, that wasn't so hard was it? I have been in two bad wrecks, but I just came out with crushed knees and a couple of broken ribs. I was accused today of mailing some really rude comments to another member. I didn;t do it, they weren't my words. Is that possible? It was at 5:30 in the morning too. I am not a early morning person! I go to bed about 1:00 or 2:00. This is weird and unsettling!
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Thanks for sharing. It is so wonderful that you have become a therapy Technician. I am sure those you help really appreciate your perspective; You have been there and have found ways to overcome and make a difference.
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Just saying hello again. Have a happy day!!!
Just hoping your trip was for pleasure!!!With my delightful brain I don't rememnberwhere you live so I don't know how far you are from N. Dakota!!! BE safe, have fun, come back to us soon!!!
Wishing you a safe and pleasurable trip!! Drop me a note when you are home safe!!
Just "QT" in TX
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REMEMNBERWHERE? I "dunno" but I bet that ain't in the dictionary!!! I need to proofread "BEFORE" I hit send message!!!!! But I ain't never heard of "iwill" either!!! Just being a smart a**!!! At least you know I am thinking of you!!! Have fun, be safe!!! I thought Lisbon was a foreign country!!!
Qutee AGAIN!!!
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