"'DO' or 'do NOT'. There is NO 'TRY'."

…
Um, I'm gonna HAFTA--REGRETTABLY-, UN-fortunately-DIS-agree, "Jedi-Master Yoda"(--'Star Wars').

…

ALAS, the saying SUCKS! But, perhaps it's kinda TRUE:

…
"No PAIN, no GAIN."

(… The MOMENTARY "suffering" acts as BOTH a "TEST" of my "HURDLING" and a GREAT feeling of ACCOMPLISHMENT … WHEN I "overcome" said "OBSTACLE"!

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My EX-girlfriend--to ME--about my WALKING:
"WHY do you WANT this so 'BAD'?!"
My reply: "''Cuz they (my PESSIMISTIC, STUPID "doctors) said I couldN'T have it!"
(--'Men of Honor')

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…

"If you're I'm) gonna GO,  go ALL-OUT."
"Go BIG, or go HOME."

THIS saying is BASICALLY telling MYSELF to go OUT MORE, & STOP being SHY!

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"GOOD work takes TIME."
("Knock on wood.")
My BACK is SLOWLY yet SURELY feeling BETTER!



...

WHAT a "PICTURE"!

…

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, 

in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must 

vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” 

--Pablo Picasso





...

"Just 'JACK'!"

… --'Will & Grace'

As the topic indicates, I doN'T have MUCH about which to type.

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THANKFULLY, ("Knock on wood.") my back is feeling MUCH BETTER.
Granted, I AM taking some ANTI-pain MEDICATION.
(… So, I'm VENTURING to say that THAT's playing some kinda (MAJOR) role!)

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Despite my (TEMPORARY?) LACK OF back-pain, my MAIN-nurse recommended I NOT risk my health, & SKIP my gym-trip today.
(… I'll LIKELY return to my LEG-gym … NEXT Friday.)

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So, I tend to grow QUITE LONELY living in my BIG HOUSE--VIRTUALLY alone!
To "COMBAT" this "ALONE-time", a GOOD buddy from high school came over--uninvited but WELCOME!
We played ALOTTA "'beirut'" and shared stories & laughs.

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My "martial arts"-Professor emailed ME this afternoon.
YAY!
HE RECOMMENDED that I CO-teach class more FREQUENTLY!
I, EXCITEDLY, agreed to said SUGGESTION!


...

Take a NEW/DIFFERENT "angle"/approach.

…

"Albert Einstein once said, ''We can't change the WORLD, without FIRST changing our THINKING.''"
(--'The Amazing Spider-Man 2')

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…

"It's not GROOVY to be 'INSANE'."
(--'Inherent Vice')

(… I KNOW from EXPERIENCE.)

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…

(I'm RELAXING as I lie in bed.)
"I NEVER 'give-up'!
I'm merely TRANSCENDING the situation."
(--Dr. Sheldon Cooper, 'The Big Bang Theory')

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…

Seeing as my EXCRUCIATING back-PAIN is LIKELY due to a SIGNIFICANT … MUSCLE-strain, I HAFTA reevaluate WHAT I can do & HOW to do it.

As a "Biomedical Engineering"-graduate from an ESTEEMED "Ivy League" university (Penn) (… NOT Penn STATE), I should have NO PROBLEMS advising ALTERNATIVE-strategies for MOST of my DAILY-activities.

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…

In addition to my SEVERE back-pain yesterday, it turns out that the medical-staff concluded that I "have PNEUMONIA".
(… I COMPLETELY DIS-agree with this VERY IGNORANT conclusion.)
(… Upon my return HOME yesterday, MY nursing-employEE explained to me that the hospital's NEW diagnosis & medicine-prescriptions are "JUST PREVENTATIVES for 'asphyxiation-/aspiration-pneumonia'/)

OOOHHH!

...

Statistically speaking, "they can't ALL be 'Winners'."

…

From ~9:00 am to ~5:00 pm (~1/3 of a day) TODAY, I was at the HOSPITAL
(  : (  )
for SEVERE lower back-PAIN!

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…

My "posterior-'TRUNK'" WAS so, so, SSSOOO AGONIZINGLY-painful that I could NOT "WALK" to my toilet to urinate, sit down in EITHER of my wheelchairs or EVEN bend my "TRUNK"!

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…

So, I lied down--on a VERY UNCOMFORTABLE table for TWO X-rays--ONE of my lower back & ONE of my chest/lungs.
(… The DUMBASS-nurse said to me:
"I SWEAR that you (ME) are ONLY written-up for ONE (X-ray)."
…
Well, after I yelled "IDIOT" and made a "'CRAZY' twirling RIGHT pointer-finger next to my cranium" hand-gesture, my mom sought out the supervisor of said horribly/ridiculously WRONG ("SORRY excuse for a" SO-CALLED) "nurse".
Needless to say, TWO valedictorians (My mom ALSO finished at the "TOP of her high school class".) are WAY SMARTER than "Nurse" ''STU'PIDO''!
AAARRRGGGHHH!
UUUGGGHHH!

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…

UNFORTUNATELY, said FORGETFUL Nurse-"BITCH" was MY "nurse" for my ALLOTTED hospital-visit.
She CONSTANTLY/REPEATEDLY … IGNORED my "BREATHING machine"-alarm, 'cuz she set up my "heart rate"-monitor IN-correctlly.

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As a refreshing CONTRADICTION to said "UNDERLING"'s EMBARRASSING "WRONG-ness", the DOCTOR recognized how LONG/MUCH I had "TOLERATED" the "nurse"'s STUPIDITY & RUDENESS and let me leave (RELATIVELY) "EARLY" … after ~SEVEN HOURS there!
(… He actually UNNECESSARILY apologized for her "DUMBASSedry")

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…

It turns out that--according to more RESPECTED members of the hospital-staff--my back-PAIN is JUST a strained/injured muscle and NOT a "pinched NERVE" or "broken BONE"!
WHEW!

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ALAS,
ONE of my NEW meds--PLUS my LONG, FRUSTRATING, EXHAUSTING day--instigates/promotes/invokes/causes SLEEP.




P.S. Is it WRONG to state that I HOPE/KNOW that "PITIFUL  EXCUSE for a 'NURSE' gets FIRED for her LACK OF nursing-, medical- AND/OR people-skills?!


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PROS & CONS

…
of my "SUPER-SENSITIVE hearing"(--my mom):


PROS

-- I hear my employEEs talking about ME … from a DIFFERENT room.
-- I almost NEVER miss any INSTRUCTIONS/DIRECTIONS.
(… I'll ask for them to be REPEATED merely to CLARIFY.)
-- I DIS-like ANY of my television sets' volume being TOO LOUD.
(… I have six TVs.)
-- There's NO/ZERO/ZILCH/'NADA' "GOSSIP"!
((… 1. I am NOT an adolescent GIRL.
2. "NOT up in HERE!"(--'The Hangover'))
-- By ALWAYS hearing my "caregiver"'s TV--when it's ON, I KNOW when he left a television ON & left the room.  Thus, I can SEMI-regulate my ELECTRICITY-bill.


CONS

-- My--INCIDENTAL--"EAVESDROPPING"does NOT allow for much PRIVACY.
-- My EXTREME SELF-confidence--along with OTHERS' TENDENCY to be CARELESS/IR-responsible/STUPID--occasionally leads to MIS-understandings/MIS-communications/MIS-interpretations.
-- Y'all would THINK that a lowER volume would allow for fewER quotes memorized … BY ME.
(… Yet, "QUALITY-quote memorization" is just what I DO!  … It's how my "ANOMALOUS" brain "operates".)
-- I USUALLY like the TV ON--in the "background"--WHILE I research RANDOM "whatnot" on my laptop.


(… YET ANOTHER "POSITIVE-aspect" is that the "PRO"s outnumber the "CON"s.)

(… WAIT!  I've GOTTA check my CALCULATIONS.
HHHMMM,
5 > 4 )
(… Ergo, EUREKA!)


…

I LOVE/NEED visitors/guests!

…

I'm a VERY SOCIAL-person!
(… That's PARTIALLY why it's SO FRUSTRATING that I--CURRENTLY/TEMPORARILY--canNOT COGENTLY/UNDERSTANDABLY speak/"VOICE my opinion".)

Yes, I DO utilize my "letter-board", "hand-gestures"/"facial expressions" & emails.  But, MUCH too OFTEN these "secondary"/"INDIRECT" forms of "COMMUNICATION" are MIS-interpreted AND/OR MIS-understood.

HOWEVER, FACE-to-FACE" "conversations" allow QUICK & EASY "sorting-out" of any/ALL MIS-"communications".
(… WHEW!)

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…

With-OUT other people (… NON-employees) to ENTERTAIN/"shoot the (proverbial) 'SHIT' with", I MIGHT "drift" into a "TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO-good, VERY BAD" "realm" of SELF-pity & SORROW.

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…

In order to NOT be TOTALLY/COMPLETELY biased in my SELF-analysis of my PROGRESS in/through my "RECOVERY", I NEED TO "show off" for/to OTHERS … PARTICULARLY those who have NOT witnessed my "WORK" in AWHILE … like some of my guests tonight.

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…

I had a GREAT time with THREE of MY friends: playing a board-game, watching television &just "shootin' the (PROVERBIAL) 'SHIT'"!

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…

I FELL … ASLEEP EAR;Y/


...

… DAMN … ME for "jumping to conclusions"!

…

UN-beknownst to ME, my thermostat changes/varies ON ITS OWN--according to the OVERALL temperature of the room.
So, although I never OPENLY accused one of my "NIGHT-caregivers" of any WRONG-doing, I still THOUGHT he was "PLAYING with" my ROOM-temperature.
(… SHAME on ME!)

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"NEVER assume, because that makes an 'ASS' out of 'U' ('YOU') & 'ME'."

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Regarding my CONSTANT-warnings to
"NOT 'judge' a 'BOOK' by its 'COVER'":

I REALLY should "PRACTICE what I PREACH".

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I really SHOULD go to sleep relatively EARLY tonight, as I 'm having NUMEROUS dinner-guests tomorrow night.
PLUS, I'm going to view KIDS' Karate-class EARLY in the morning (at ~9:00 am).

''C'est la vie.''
(--French for ''That's life.'')



...

I'm EXHAUSTED!

…
I doN'T know WHY!
(?!)

(… Actually, I DO know WHY.)
(… SSSHHH!)

My (UN-reliable, IR-responsible) EVENING-nurse was
an "HOUR & FIFTEEN MINUTES"+ LATE.
She didN'T even CALL to explain her TARDINESS.
I had to call HER!

Ergo, I spent an EXTRA 75+ MINUTES sitting--with a VERY SORE BACK--in my CHAIR.

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Also, my (very NOT-smart) night-caregiver CHANGED the TEMPERATURE-settting--with-OUT MY permission--from my/the NORMAL/USUAL temp. of 75 degrees … down to a FREEZING 63 degrees!
(… I checked this morning, after I awoke--TIRED, sneezing & with a "RUNNY=nose".)

(… SIGH!  I'm AFRAID I'm NOW getting SICK, 'cuz I'm CONSTANTLY COLD!)

(… U am LIVID!)


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