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snotsnot 
i am just getting over yet another infection in my left leg. surgery #14 was july 25, for debridement. same bug as last time (pseudomonis), just below the knee this time. it started from the inside out, from a "dissolvable" screw in the tibia. been on massive iv antibiotics for the last 6 weeks, they always make me nauseous and give me the shits. fun fun fun.
still living with my parents, ready to get my own place again but a little nervous about my newly limited budget (havent worked in 2 years, on disability now).
not really doing a whole lot, staying indoors, lost touch with most of my friends, cant keep up with them anymore, trying to get motivated to join a wheelchair basketball team or get into swimming. there is a big intimidation factor there for me, even though ive always been into sports. i am so out of shape it's not funny.
ordered a couple books from amazon: Injury: Learning to Live Again, and Coping with Physical Loss and Disability: A Workbook (New Horizons in Therapy). havent received them yet.
just trying to move on, trying to be patient with myself in accepting where im at every moment, learning to slow down without stopping altogether.
that's where i am these days.
