Wednesday, August 10, 2016

My confinement continued

The pulled muscle turned into a fractured femur, for which I had surgery on Saturday and went home to rehab on Monday.  So excuse the typos as I is injured.

I was on the phone to Sophie last Thursday when I uttered the fateful words 'the f***** just broke' to which Sophie advised me to call 911.  Which I did.  They couldn't get the stretcher in the house so they put me in a sling and then to a stretcher/chair.  Off to the hospital.  And drugs.  I was floating for two days before the surgery.  And hallucinations, boy, I had them.  As they were wheeling me to surgery I believed I was in a fight between Hillary and Donald for air and that people on each side were breathing for me.  Of course as I was in surgery I proudily announced to all 'wow am I aphallucinating' to which the surgeon replied I was in my right mind.  Once back in my room some of the hallucinations continued as I came out of anesthesia.  I had a private nurse and special care which only confirmed my hallucinating state of mind.  By Sunday I was up and walking with a walker.  Monday it was deemed acceptable that I go home with a visiting nurse and rehab.

So that's where I have been.  I have great friends who were watching the house and cats wihile I was gone.  And that great care continues as people bring me food and keep me company and help me with my exercises.  Feel free to stop by and help with the leg lift.

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

My confinement and it take a worried man

Well, friends, once again I am sidelined by a leg injury.  I apparently pulled to the nth degree my thigh muscles, all three of them.  Hobbled and hurting  I tried to get in to see my orthopod but his office said I needed a new referral for a new injury.  So right now I sit and wait, hurting muchly.  I went to the ER and they gave me some Tylenol 3 and bid me adieu.  I am now walking with a cane and watching MSNBC (the place for politics).  And that is what frightens me.

Seems that Mister Trump is saying if he loses the election then somehow it must be a rigged election based on his totally awesome primary victories.  I think that sets the stage for a possible revolt when the election doesn't go his way.  Which it won't.  I can see that a Trump loss will be perceived as less than legitimate and they will take to the streets like a bunch of drunken college students and burning couches.  And that any Democratic victory will not be recognized.  You know it could just go that way if a Trump loses.  So I am worried about this.  This is just stoking the flames of the fire Trump has created.  They are just so removed from the mainstream and feeling that they are victims of political correctness and no one but Trump understands them.  Revolt and revolting.

Yes, watching MSNBC and anxious.  They are saying the election is going Hillary's way.  Some young man, and I mean young, called Hillary a bitch.  Obama is saying that Trump is unfit and I can hear the Trumpians saying something about the inappropriateness of Obama's remarks.

I think Trump may be imploding.  He is turning on some outstanding and decent Republicans. like John McCain and Paul Ryan, refusing to support them in the primarries.  The Olympics are going to overshadow our election.  But Trump is losing it, adding fuel to the fire of his critics.  He jumps from one controversies to another.  But the worry is a new civil war and rioting if and when Trump loses.

So that is where I sit, in discomfort emotionally and physically.  Maybe it is time for cartoons.