“Looms on the horizon…”
Category: The Accident – As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named “Clyde” (Short For Collide) Because It’s Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense
Self Worth
“I felt proud of my prior physical abilities.”
(Fear – Leo Faulkner)
Pain
“Believe it or not, I don’t like complaining – but I keep getting driven to mention it in order to attempt to obtain some sort of psychological release.”
Pragmatism
“I’m going to have to shift how I’ve looked at all of this in order to create a new form of hope to carry on.”
For Now
When paths forward
Erase into fading dim
Going becomes slower
As insecurity increases
One must take hold of
Frightened heart/mind
Carefully testing steps for
Stability’s further slippage
How Rapid Is Rapid?
“Two years to this state is pretty darn rapid.
Gee, migraines and symptoms validated.
Why, thank you!”
(Sugar – Sleep Token)
The Game
Counter-strategies
Now
“What to do about it…”
Why
“The spinal cord was overstretched, cervical stacking stability shorted out, and brain is being pullled at in every movement, so constant distress signals’ flight/fight/freeze signals keep alternating and prevent fascial proprioceptors from regulating.
But that’s not what many doctors would say.
They will look at where it is pinching, compressing, and/or grindng…
Because they still do not understand how to treat actual causes to system ‘failures’ by looking for underlying reasons in order to troubleshoot and provide restorative therapies.”
MRI Results
Worse than before…why?
(I’m not freaking out…I’m not panicking…my blood pressure is fine – I’m fine, da** it!)
4am Bed Wrestling
Pushed shoulders &
Further ripped hips
From slipping on carpet
Working to disassemble
That extra foam layer proposed
I had hoped would’ve benefited
Testifies to the extent of
Unnegotiable discomfort
Selective Functionality
I can still attend many things
Just not the same drudgeries
RueFallBack
“Yeah, ’cause I just knocked myself loose again, jumping around and dancing, getting hardcore into to that song.”
(Ouuch…but worth it)
Restrictions
“These rules are borked!:
Jagged Edges
I have a comfortable bed
Or so I’d like to think of it
But there’s rarely a position
That I can find this comfort
Maybe I need to add another
Layer of foam to cushion me
Perhaps too much inflamed
Pain never abating hinders
The recovery I’ve needed
To overcome the injuries
Permutations
I want to garden
But do I not lift?
Or grip and dig,
Or kneel, or shift
As extend to retract
Endurent dynamics?
What can I do
And shouldn’t?
One day left for rest
Isn’t enough further
I just workout and
Travel spiral circles
Going over same paths
Seeking spark’s interest
Things get done without
Motivated life’s purpose
Except living day to day
Trying to restore basics
Reaching For Sanitys Safety
Sunlight’s warmth to greet me
Leaves, grass, trees, and sky
Mountains protecting
Soothing inner eyes
Back To The Surface
“‘Oh, sweet relief!’ as we returned to the first floor of normal sounds and colors!”
Panic At The Disco
OMG – even the gown and curtains are pixelated, and everything is just blocks and lines like in Minecraft!
Aaaaauuugghh, my reality is melting!”
Object Identification
“Difficulty because hospital corridors contain multiple frequency reverberating hums, and everything in view is 3-D grids.”
Cold & Shaking
“I don’t know why, but it is harder for me to get to my own doctor appts.
Had to get to MRI’s this morning.
First of all, I am no longer ok in the morning.
You could say it’s because I don’t get to sleep until around 2am or so, but my internal biorhythms are altered.
And I won’t detail the diffuculty, but once I got into the hospital where everything was shutdown to minimum operations on the weekend, I had to request wheelchair assistance to help me get checked in and settled into the correct waiting room properly.
The anxiety crush meltdown of gratefully accepting a wheelchair to be shuttled more quickly and safely than my legs and increasing disorientation could take me was alarming.
But there was a kind, older lady that I helped get confirmed in her own location, and she extended to me saying, ” Always ask for a wheelchair in the airport,” confidingly – as I just about broke into tears for needing the darn thing.”
Signs & Signals
“It feels like there is no real help, only signs and signals pointing the way if one keeps looking for and innovating solutions despite ‘diminishing’ capacities.”
Logic That Bi***!
“The injuries are becoming a psychological hindrance as they do not fade – but, in fact, become more insistent and prevalent.
The mind cannot help but panic when experiencing increasing complication impulses – yet, it must struggle to overcome meltdown shutdowns while seeking a newly defined pragmatism.
For it makes sense that as more systems reboot, extent of prior damages becomes ever more clear – and that system overload would increase as additional jagged impulses are seeking to be added to healing’s reintegration.”
Even-Keeled
“Means something entirely different in seeking balance when one’s boat is flipped, and staying submerged in water’s engulfing suction seems to be the end result, anyway (unrelenting) – especially when one’s sea legs are no longer stable above surface in sailing.”
“Freaking Out”
“Trying to reclaim norms, but norms are now distorted.
This doesn’t mean that things are ‘bad.’
(Sweat)
Things, relatively, might be ‘good.’
(Distrust)
In fact things may be, given skews, ‘getting better, again.’
(Panic)”
(Deja Vu – Lastlings)
Staying In Motion
“‘Objects in motion stay in motion…’
Newton’s First Law of Motion; also known as The Law of Inertia
I just keep going because it feels like if I stop, I’ll just need to lie back down.”
Synaptic Overwhelm
A symptom of various things…
Looking For My Hair Tie
“Already in the bathroom, I did not want to leave to go get my hair tie, just to come back again – so I got another.
Once I returned to where I thought I’d left it, but typing on my phone having let thought of it go after task completion, irritating pressure on my wrist made me look:
It had been there the entire time!”
Dear Friend,
“Laughing at perfect ‘death…'”
Desperation
I learned to innovate
Manifesting physically
Having this disrupted in
Eyes, spine, hands, feet
How in fu**ed hell do I
Save myself, this time?
(Bulletproof – Jamie Fine)
A beloved sibling sent this to me this eve.
Falling Apart
“I had to cancel work until next week because there’s no doubt I got reinjured.
I hate this.
I hate too much pain and lack of pleasure.
I hate limits without any workarounds.”
Absurdity
“It distresses me that when I hear how people like to go for a walk or hiking, my body now says, ‘That’s not for me!'”
Dizzy
“‘Cause I’m gettin’ better…
Yeah, that’s it…”
Validation
“I obtained the permanent permit today.
Should I cry with relief, or anguish?”
Anxiety
What could this be?
Why do I feel empty?
I give to others
And help family
I think my body hurts
As engage arm or leg
Gravity is tough going
If spine to neck flayed
To rise from bed
Needs a purpose
Towing the line is
No longer worth it
If movement is stiff
Maybe stay in place
Catch up to moment
Give self some grace
(Turning Stones – CamelPhat, Mind Against Remix)
Happy Anniversary, Athena!
“Here’s to my 2 years ago act of valiance – for which I’m still paying!
Woo-Hoo!”
Thoink!
“Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that I strained a neck muscle.”
(Find A Way – Vintage Culture)
Anger
Tapping into rage to fight back the pain.
Pain
“It seems that much of my time is forced into experiencing it.”
Barriers To Success
“It infuriates me that all I can do right now is attend to very few things – and then I must decompress, without making further progress.
Yet, I can’t tell if it’s my inner drive to achieve – or the need to keep pressing hard onward in order to survive that is yelling.”
Flat-Lined
After effects from work.
Beyond Tolerances
“There comes a point near every late evening.where makeshift stamina’s grace collapses, and further movements are accompanied by quiet grunts and wheezes.”
Warrior Pose
No gentle side-curling that
Creates extra compression
But sprawled diagonal across the bed
Face-down head between two pillows
Instability
A thematic that seems to not quit as
A single parent until grown children
Followed by accident’s spinal injury
Dollops a topping of “joke’s on me.”
