Rain
July 22, 2009 6:02pm
Everyone mark your calendar, it rained in Albuquerque, NM yesterday evening, be sure to get the spelling of Albuquerque right. its …
Goal Completed on Apr 29, 08
Jiminator
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About Me
Jiminator
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About Me
Above knee amputation they refer to as AKA, and a serious brain injury refered to as TBI, a bad speller they call stupid, and The brain injury was very damaging, loss of motor functions, and loss of memory, at times, it is not consistant. I lost part of my pelvic bone to gangrene and infections. It was just that knd of thing that happens in a flash, and your life is changed forever, but it was also the kind of thing that just happens for no really good reason, that could have been avoided. If we are all responsible and respect the rules of the road, but we don't, here I am a victim of a drunk driver, and I myself drive with pain meds inside me, and the loss of depth perception, but I am very very careful. I decided to change my profile, because I have learned that no one needs to or wants to hear about your suffering, I have, I assure you, it continues to this day. The years have ticked by slowly, but the medical problems and the problems we all inherit later in life are arriving earlier in my life. I have had a very hard life. The sad part is I will not be able to enjoy the last years of life. The restrictions will grow and grow. I have always been a kind, generous person, and I do not feel that I deserved what happened, and it was so devastating, injuries that few people would have survived.
Above knee amputation they refer to as AKA, and a serious brain injury refered to as TBI, a bad speller they call stupid, and The brain injury was very damaging, loss of motor functions, and loss of memory, at times, it is not consistant. I lost part of my pelvic bone to gangrene and infections. It was just that knd of thing that happens in a flash, and your life is changed forever, but it was also the kind of thing that just happens for no really good reason, that could have been avoided. If we
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Interests
My true interests left me, because of my physical changes, but I have found others, art, photography, creating videos of animated cartoon characters, writing short stories, traveling to scenic area's that are accessible to me, and returning to my fathers native home of Dublin, IE, meeting his cousins, seeing the original family clans castle. and Driving over 180 MPH on the Autobahn, man was that cool, and it was a rent a car, a porsche. I do still grieve the body I once had, and it has been hard to accept.
My true interests left me, because of my physical changes, but I have found others, art, photography,
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Vacations
June 7, 2009 1:07pm
Do you all remember what they are, and how they seemed to either drain you, or refresh you? They have to be carefully planned out, to …
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Chronic Severe Pain
May 25, 2009 12:48pm
After 7 long painful years, I can say with great relief that my level of neuropathic phatom limb pain has begun to decrease. I have now begun …
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edited down to nothing
April 7, 2009 8:02am
Here is the latest communique I received from a person who I thought was a friend, it is absolutlely not true, those of you who do know …
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Flower
Hey, I haven't been around for awhile....the usual Lupus crap as well as family stuff. Seems things have not been so good for you?.....hope you are doing as well as you can....life can be difficult sometimes, to say the least! Anyway, sending all the healing and coping energy I can muster.....Take care friend....love, light and peace from the land of Aus.x
Little Love
I am so sorry about your son. When does your plane leave? I will keep you in my prayers. It is about time you got someone to escort you.. I know you don't like it, but at least you are safe.
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Moment of Peace
Well, you didn't even tell me that. Did you get rid of them? haha You can't send hugs in thousands, or even 2 at the same time. You can send private messages to everyone. How are you? It's been awhile since I seen you. I thought you forgot me.
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Flower
Sorry to hear you missed the fair....for a much more unpleasant ordeal! Yep....any fella who can build a hot vehicle would find plenty to do here, even though the world is having a financial crisis...Aussie boys love their cars! Though these days the boys who have the hot street machines are getting their vehicles impounded with monotonous regularity...we now have "anti-hoon legislation"....The government is making a huge dollars with this one, and the new impound laws for people who get caught driving without a licence. Looks like the wild times are coming to an end. Hot rods and V-8 Supercars are really popular though, so could be good dollars to be made if you picked the right location. I remember you mentioning you've travelled our land before......I can't blame you for wanting to disappear, with your family being so mercenary when you were down....For goodness sake, don't people have any manners anymore....I guess there's merit it that old saying, "you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family". Make 'em wait......and in the words of Spock....live long and prosper ....love, light and peace from the land of Aus. PS. My team (St. Kilda) are in the Grand Final this weekend, my middle stepson flew over to Melbourne on Wednesday afternoon to catch up with some mates and watch the game....his team (Geelong) are the other team....so one of us will be getting "heaps" when he comes for dinner on Tuesday night! Go the Saints!!!!
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Thanks for the message....I am feeling much better yesterday and today, didn't need any help getting out of bed, and even spent a few hours weeding and planting yesterday. Fortunately, I don't have to use a wheelchair, the fact I may have to have a cane handy for "bad" days bothers me a lot. My mother 'phoned me yesterday and said she had a cane belonging to my great-grandmother, and I was welcome to it .....what a blow to the ego...great gran was in her eighties when she started using it! Ah well, that'll teach me for being vain!
What kind of idiot designs a door for the handicapped that actually injures people when they use it!!! I can imagine you do feel you are being "chased by a black cloud" at the moment.
Glad you gave the lecturers "what for"....some people are just complete asses. Many moons ago I went to business college. One of the classes was shorthand (the original Isaac Pitman style)...it was a total nightmare, as you have all these little squiggles and strokes in light and dark ink that take an age to learn and to write legibly. We had an old crone teaching us that would delight in giving five or ten minutes fast dictation and then picking out the student who was having the most trouble writing and keeping up. That student would then have to stand up in class and recite back what they wrote. I could not believe how this teacher would smirk and stand with arms folded, while the poor student would um and ah and quietly fall to pieces in front of us. It still makes me angry when I think about it, and I wasn't even one that was "picked on". Don't think anyone uses shorthand anymore....it has gone the way of telex machines and punch cards....obsolete. I don't even think the Gen. X's know what it is.....crap...another indication of getting old!
Anyway, enough from me....keep giving them heaps at college and hope you had a lovely time at the fair.....love, light and peace from the land of Aus. x
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Support Groups
Close Chronic Pain
Severe Neuropathic pain, I do mean severe, it has total control of what I do and do not do.I will not list any meds I take on a public forum, for it you need to know why visit, http://wefellfine.org
Close Paralysis
Type: Paraplegic (lower body)loss of leg, pelvis all messed up, lower back nerve problems, complete loss of leg, even the joint the femur goes into
Open Brain Injury
TBI, Above Knee Amputee, Hip disarticulation, 52 not being able to walk anymore is the big one, spent 17 months in a coma from the brain injury, have some real problems with meemory and chronic Neuropathic Pain, like they deserve to be capitalized, hehe. I attend college now, trying to maybe find a way back into the work force, ran down by a drunk driver. I was on a motorcycle, and can barely remember the accident. drunk ran a stop sign, bout out of characters here.
Open Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Run down by a drunk driver on 9/12/03, with physical injuries so numerous and so severe, that I suffer horrible dreams and irrational fears, and would like to know how others deal with the fear, the phobia, the anger, the sleepless nights, the isolation that I seem to crave, and believe it is safer. Jim
Treatments
- Art Working / Worked
- I spend great amounts of time painting and playing with photo's.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Working / Worked
- working well but hard to remember the lessons under stress
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- It has been many years of couneling, but it is helping an hypnosis has helped to. it helped me to understand all that I suffer from emotionally, from childhood and wartime activities, to the day of the drunk,
- Reading Working / Worked
- I am not into self help books but I do love to read, and I love art.
- Talking Somewhat Helpful
- intensive counseling for several years now, and it does seem to help, for I have begun to trust others again.
Open Depression
Lets see, my story? I was run down by a drunk driver on 9/12/03, and I awoke from a coma on 5/25/05, to discover that I not only would never walk again because parts below the waist are missing, and that my arm sockets, and most of both hands have been replaced with plastic, steel, nuts, bolts, screws, glue, wire, ribbons, tape, staples, and coat hangers, that I have this fairly uncomfortable condition called Neuropathic pain, level 12 on their little 1-10 scale. need moe carrots
Treatments
- Getting Angry Working / Worked
- How could I possibly describe an experience that no one should have to survive?
