Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ( Read more... )

Swinging back into the norm of things is of course a gradual transition. A visit to a bar with a buddy. A trip to the pool hall with a coworker. Camping with the guys. I'm glad that I've been able to attend. Now I get to trade one relatively attractive female roommate for an other. We'll see how that works out. We don't seem to "spark" at ( Read more... )

I'm so glad that I have this LiveJournal to vent in and look back at. All of the most epic events of my life are in these archives. I may not have been around the world or gone to battle, or gone treasure hunting or rescued distressing damsels, but if I were to pick my 10 favorite entries to read at my life's weary end, I think they'd tell quite ( Read more... )

I just ran two miles. It sure does beat the quarter mile run I attempted last week. My leg is on fire and I love it. It burns in a good way. Not in any area local to my wound, just the entire leg in general. I haven't breathed that hard in weeks. I was so out of shape and unconditioned. I started feeling exhausted about a mile into the run ( Read more... )

It was the fastest I'd gone without some sort of engine propelling me in almost a month. It hurt and caused for me to feel very stiff. My ankle had yet to really pitch and bend since the accident and it was locked in place as if I had some sort of solid prosthetic leg. I ran with a limp that made Forest Gump look as graceful as the Duke of ( Read more... )

You can try to picture it. Night-time. Traffic has died down and the streets are calm - resting after a busy day of enduring downtown Houston commuters. The shiny black asphalt surface of the street is interrupted only periodically as late-night drivers pass by in their various motor-vehicles. Although the streets are not wet, they still ( Read more... )

Mornings are the hardest times to deal with emotionally for me. Waking up to the buzz of my alarm and then trying to roll over to shut is off only to be struck with the painful realization that I'm still an incapacitated cripple. Then I reach out, as far as I can, and squirm over on the bed until I finally am able to hit the OFF button ( Read more... )

My past two weeks have been entirely dominated by two major categories of emotion ( Read more... )

Well I'm back to feeling a little bit better about myself. I think it's mostly the weather. We've had some good weather. It's cooler out. The sun does pretty things with the shadows of the trees on the street as I drive and it just makes me feel better. For the longest time my moral at work had been based and judged by this mental scale of ( Read more... )

Computer finally gave in. All the way. Won't even do anything when I press the on button. It's like I'm poking at a lifeless corpse. Just have to post from the blackberry. Very labor intensive..