Waiting
I’ve been back from Portugal for over a month now and I’m still waiting to find out when I will be starting therapy in Detroit. The interest that is being generated by the various reports about the operation I underwent in Portugal has created a logjam of patients waiting to receive therapy. Rehab Institute is in the process of hiring more therapists to accommodate everyone. Hopefully, I will begin my therapy beginning in June; although the fact that they haven’t been able to pin down a starting date for me yet, has been frustrating.
One of the reasons I’m so anxious to begin therapy, aside from staving off extreme boredom, is that in these reports of what other patients are accomplishing, I keep reading of goals they’ve recently achieved that I’ve surpassed months ago. And in most cases, my injury was more recent than these other patients. It makes me want to know what more I will get back as I undergo the rehabilitation process myself.
In related news, in conjunction with the CBS News report, the Free Press ran another article following up on Cortney Hoffman’s progress. Yours truly received some anonymous publicity in the article. In the section entitled “Making Progress,” in the second to last paragraph of that section, my recovery thus far is acknowledged. I’m one of the patients described as having “temporary loss of sensation,” and a “type of meningitis infection.” Those may not seem like things to go tooting one’s own horn about, but keep in mind we’re talking about being one of only two people to experience those complications in the HISTORY OF THE WORLD (of the relatively small sample of 52 patients, to date, who’ve undergone this one, experimental procedure)!
So in the time being, I’ve got that going for me.
If you want to read the article, point out my section to your friends, coworkers, neighbors, etc. and say, “I know one of these guys,” click here.
