“This stage is a prison, a beautiful nightmare. A war of attrition. I’ll take what I’m given – the deepest incisions. I thought I got better, but maybe I didn’t.”
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
Dear Alex,
“I thought I could get better, that I could pull myself back together.
But parts of me bamphing out of the material realm while others got torn assunder makes it difficult for regeneration.
My body is trying, but is misdirected by the longterm inflammation – and this has now become something that I cannot fix on my own.”
(Let Me Come To Life – Klangkarussel)
I Want To Live
“Please universe, help me find my healings.”
Shock
“I had known it was ‘bad,’ but they had only found hints of the areas before that they had then waived off as minor, despite my unusually extreme symptoms”
Disorientation
“The pain had increased to such intensity over the past couple of weeks that getting it to finally back down a notch or two has me floating in hazey nerve fry.”
Wrenched
“I should have waited, knowing the dogs were distracted, but instead I waded right into them at the height of their excited surge-lauching toward the person behind me – and got my leg attachments pulled.
Dazed and confused, I feel insubstantial as the ground shifts ever constantly under me, making it difficult to find and retain my bearings.
(Likely, flip flops don’t help, but the toe needs a little more time)
Good thing I’m an air sign and can dissociate somewhat, othrwise I’m not sure I would have made it this far by endurence.”
Movement
(Pop!)
“My humerus at last repositioned!”
Full Stop
“I have just managed to extricate myself from the mode of ‘full steam ahead,’ pulling off into an eddied pool as the river of life keeps blasting full throttle downstream.
Having taken damage trying to keep up with the rapids, perhaps more gentle side streams might bypass and reconverge where navigating becomes smoother sailing.”
(Survive – Lewis Capaldi, Sollos Relax Mix)
Anything
“Please, just give me any position of comfort.
Anything…”
Dig Down Into The Mud
What good is all this talk of wings
When there is nothing left above?
—-
(Sleep Token lyrics from “Even In Arcadia”)
Cliff’s Edge
“It seems that I have come to the end of what I can due to bring in income, unless I deviate course drastically and have ability to wait for several months – if not longer.
What purpose to be driven to this precipice with only options as denial or acceptance?”
Misaligned
Cranial bones are shifted.
(Close Your Eyes – Forester, Petit Biscuit & Emilia Ali)
Self Regulation
“Gets hard to create when the nerve and chord twist-compress into hot, pinching pain and the panic sets in.”
Dear Friend,
“I pull at the chains…and I’m breaking.”
I’m Here
“Just casting my net about, trying to grapple with this sea monster and come up with better solutions than freaking the fu** out…”
Retraining
“Looms on the horizon…”
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…”
(Ascensionism – Sleep Token)
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!”
