And now comes the boring part

[dagbrown]

Car crashes and surgery are very exciting and all, but after the dramatic bit, there’s this long, slow, dreadfully-boring process called recovery. With its considerably-more-tedious cousin paperwork.

The paperwork has been in the form of the clerk at the insurance company that holds the policy for the car that ran me over. The office I’ve been

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[a_cubed]

Ah yes, the assumption that any foreigner living in Japan must be an English teacher. When asked what I do I've told people "I'm a Professor" and half the time I get "oh, linguistics?" back - i.e. "oh, not really a professor, of course, just a glorified English teacher". They get even more confused when I tell them I teach Information Ethics in the Business School.
(Note: linguistics is a very worhtwhile subject when it's studied and taught as a real academic subject. What these people mean, and what many "linuguistics" appointments in Japan are, is English teachers at University, usually of people without PhDs who don't do research and teach nothing except English lanugage skills.)

[knemesis]

My dad is in the school of being decidedly not helpful with wheelchairs. He kept pulling it far too close, or far too far away from my mom to easily use. She was also attached to an IV pole and he had a very difficult time understanding that you cannot just wheel the chair with the feet *under* the bed because where was she standing up from? He would then sometimes wheel her just to the door of her four person room and expect her to magically get up with nothing to grab onto. Let's not even get into how fast he thought someone who had just had brain surgery needed to go when he was pushing the chair.. There was a reason mom would tell me to get the chair and hold onto it. I suppose those courses I took when I was a teenager on how to properly wheel someone in a wheelchair sunk in because it just seemed common sense to make sure the chair was either there, or not in the way at the appropriate times

[dagbrown]

My work has been shockingly nice about me being off. My boss told me to take care of myself first--that's the most important thing, he said. He told me to take as much time off work to get better as I need.

I quite like that attitude.

(It helps that work doesn't pay for my wages while I'm in the hospital. The other guy's insurance does. It's the law.)

[tau_iota_mu_c]

(if he's not driving illegally without registration and insurance)

[dagbrown]

Company car, and the company's insurance policy. If he was driving without a license, then he's very fired right now.

[catbear]

I do wonder about the people around here who ride with no armour. KW is thick with inattentive and thoughtless drivers in cages much too large for their needs, and the roads are generally clear enough that they get away with only occasionally thinking about the road. I'm just getting up to 4K on the odometer and while there haven't been any close calls, I expect it's because I just don't let them get close enough to begin with. It's a video game, see, where I score more points for being farther away from other people on the road. And I get negative multipliers for being in blind spots or SMIDSY situations. Maybe road rash is manly!

Cheers on your quick recovery, strange man in a strange land.

[stryderranulf]

Hope you get well soon Dave!