I’m here, not there.
I’m here, not there.
I’m here, not there.
I’m here, not there.
I’m here, not there.
I’m here, not there.
I’m here, not there.
I’m here, not there.
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Category: The Shower Accident 11/14/25
“Visual Bombardment”
Ah, Yes…
She had not done her usual workout routine yesterday, so now came the migraine torsion.
Sinews
Her frame, planking, beams, and knees creaked and ached like timbers of a ship as she groaned, trying without success to take a small nap.
Miscalculations
As she took a drink of water in the gray and spilled some down her shirt.
Time for bed, again, as circulation quivered.
Could fasting and giving blood for labs days ago still be the cause of this imbalance?
Lockdown
No, No, No!
She had worked to get this far today – and now needed to make progress!
Was it her brain?
Her muscles?
Her heart?
What was going on?!
Shaking
She could feel how weak her structural stability was.
Did this mean that systems were coming back online?
Was it yet safe to start adding other exercises to rebuild the muscles?
Was there enough reactivated core matrices for them to build upon?
Delayed Reactiom
“These accidents have taken away my ability to do anything!”
(In her mind throwing objects at walls, doors, and windows while screamimg hellfire at them to break them down.)
Progress
“Even if I can only do one or two things per day to advance my regaining stability, this is still valuable.”
Setbacks
“I haven’t been able to do most of my shoulder and hip restabilizing exercises since the concussion because when I try, doing them increases since then strained cephalic pressure.”
Lack Of Impetus
There were things that she needed to do, but all of them were draining.
Gravity’s Well
She thought that she was getting up…but then, she wasn’t.
Misalignment
Much like the prow of her ship from past collisions, her hip and shoulder were twisted from recent effort to swab the deck.
(Stronger [What Doesn’t Kill You] – Kelly Clarkson)
Brain Crash With Fighting Off Impending Meltdown
Because she could not “see” where the needed undergarment had gone to.
Suspension Anxiety
She couldn’t tell if it was from circumstances, or physical injury.
The Job
Keep stitching torn sails, work to repair rigging, and pray for reinforcements.
Resolute
The concussion scenario being a dead end recipe for complete disempowerment, she just kept trying to do whatever she could try to do, despite it – peppered with moments of stopping for breaks to try to rest.
Braaaaiiiiinnn
“One could think that being told one must rest for recovery would be liberating.
But it isn’t – no, not one bit – not one bit at all when one’s boat is sinking.”
Discussion
“After two and a half years of working toward reactivating muscle responses, it becomes apparent how essential that the surrounding fascial support tissues are in also needing reactivation to cushion and hold structural supports, as well as keep them within their own sectors vectors.”
My Phrasing
“Based upon personal and professional experience.”
Official Terminology
“Connective tissue integrity disruption.”
Building On Belief
“A doctor’s assistant doing initial intake before I saw my primary recently listened to how I’d discovered that my workouts had actually been gaining ground in restabilizing my spine – and then how devastated I was to have that progress disrupted and basically wrenched from my hands from the concussive fall.
Whereupon, I was surprised and encouraged when she reflected my prior once faith back to me by saying assuredly, ‘But you can get that back…'”
I Was Astonished
“That the orthopedic doctor actually said, ‘What good would an MRI do?’ – and he’s a surgical specialist!”
Can I Opt Out?
“From this whole body and brain injury scene?”
(School’s Out – Alice Cooper)
I Am Literally
“Quite twitchy.”
Dr’s Note
“There’s this feeling that I can’t place, like being body-slammed or hit in the face – felt since hearing that the only recovery path for my concussion is rest minus brain use activities when survival requires opposite.”
I Am Tired Of Struggling
“Pick A Subject…”
Parallel Tracks
Narrowed fields of vision
Along gaptic crossways
Make it near unfathomable to
Work several projects linearly
Thunk!
“I got a deep hip adjustment when I extended my leg out for a stretch while on my back.
Maybe I’m closer to some better tracking!”
Something I Won’t Get Near To, AgaIn – AHAHAHAHAHA
Inner Eye
“And to try to see makes my brain want to scream!”
Catching Up With Falling Down
She was hungry
And her neck and head hurt.
Getting up hurt,
Staying up hurt.
Thinking hurt.
Needing love and yearning burt.
Wanting hurt.
Not having hurt.
Lack of any options hurt.
Striving now felt pointless.
Purposeless.
Her father warned depression could come from concussion.
But that wasn’t why she hurt.
She hurt because the accidents hurt her and she couldn’t have what her soul and heart wanted because they hurt her.
She couldn’t reclaim her self determination’s independence or feel free – only disepowerment.
She couldn’t have tbe man she wanted who reawakened her to things long buried.
She couldn’t have the dreams that had kept her vital despite setbacks.
She was being rendered obsolete to society not just from arbitrary age bias, but because she couldn’t perform on the treadmill, any.more.
She was becoming irrelevant even to herself because she could no longer single-handedly provide for her family’s – or even now, her own – survival.
Darn It!
“I’ve hurt myself from today’s workout.
I can barely do anything, now, without reinjury!”
Adrenal Anxiety
“I need to apply for longterm help, and it feels like I have done something terrible.
Like I took a very wrong turn, somewhere.
And I can’t go back to change anything – only forward.
I didn’t make any of these injuries happen.
Neither accident was my fault, and I fought back bracedly both times to resist their happening.
So why am I having to pay the price for others’ laxity?
Why is my reward relegating me to dependency?”
Concussed Fatigue
Another aspect of injury is that
My body tires quickly standing
Fu** You!
Impact damage
Downgradation
Makes me want to
Scream in rebellion
Gaps In Synapses
I have three brain injuries now
Original, new, and combined
Did I say this?
Have I said this?
The walls are thicker
Behind closing doors
Help Me Before I Fall
I Was Afriad
After the concussion
My arms became weak
My hands and face had
Increased numb patterns
Body and limb discoordination
Was knocked back into tailspin
Neck instability meant any movement
Upon elliptical pulled on brain injury
So now I do even less at the gym
To allow myself to try to catch up
Lack Of Confidence
I need to get back into
Previous yoga-pilates
But it was not safe to
After the car accident
So it’s hard to believe
Strength will recover
Although time’s passing
Says to do now not later
Depths Of Connection
As my body resettling
Moves to new “normal”
It brings to the surface
Support tissue atrophy
When lying upon a shoulder
Things sink where shouldn’t
Causing destabilizing strains
To bone attachment structure
Accident Prone
Going into third year of recovery’s
Recurring negative enforcements
—
(Title of multiple meanimgs)
Me, Myself, & I
“We are pretty dissatisfied in this current predicament.”
Great Angst
“Trying to coordinate fingers threading shoe laces through resistantly-tight, flick-flapping shoe straps.
What happened to standardly-practical, solid and easy-to-use holes?”
Will I Rise Again?
When my grandparents finally rested,
They either gave up & chose to die or
Stayed in bed for the rest of their lives
Two & A Half Years
Being unable to work
Dependent on systems
Has very much sucked as
I prefer self determination
Discontinuity
“Being unable to work flies into the face of the American Dream.”
Dust To Dust
I’ve got nothing to strive for
No more umph in my motor
I always had manifestation
As my high-driving priority
Even if I had to wait
I knew it was there
I could feel it’s pressence
Just like I feel you, my love
It’s very discouraging after all of that
To find myself flat-stopped, diverted
No more climbing
No more aspiring
Because I’m just
So damn hurting
Nothing seems attainable anymore
It’s just slipping through my fingers
