Well it's been a few months now since I got hurt riding the shuttle busses in Vegas and can you believe my wife wants me to go with her to the casino in Shreveport LA.?? My condition went down from where I was in my 11 years of surviving from the stroke but I'm beginning to feel my old self again... There isn't much more they can do for my condition at this point except a little more PT and OT and let my knee heal up a bit more...

I should be back to normal or where I was before I went to Vegas with my condition... Driving my car using my scooter and walking better is mostly what I want to do without falling down when no one is around... For me that will be a blessing and it makes me feel more independent at home again...

I can even get back to being on stroke net when I'm not nursing any pains or making hospital visits for existing ailments... Now that the combat soldiers are out of Afghanistan there has to be more troops that was sent to Fort Hood for treatments in the Wounded Warriors Unit with missing limbs even female soldiers are here and appreciate others like myself that come to the unit and have conversations with them who knows what it's like and how we are when we can't use parts of our body....

This is where they get fitted for prosthetics and issued a cane, walkers, wheel chair or scooters even if they are not eligible to retire yet... You can say the military does take care of their own... It wasn't that way when I was still on active duty and Walter Reed hospital was where wounded soldiers were sent first but now is closed down...

The new car sales are way up in this town and soldiers with missing limbs doesn't have to wait long to get their cars equipped so they can drive them in their conditions... That's a good thing now!!! Our downtown area is still small but the mayor has made the streets and sidewalks where the wounded soldiers can get around although most of the business is in the malls and along the strip mall areas which are being built all over the city...

I'm thinking of going back to being a Defensive Driving Instructor again, the AARP has sent me several notices asking me to accept their offer... Then a day or so later I see in the paper where some older person has run into a store front window hurting several people inside...

It's so many older people here still wanting to drive but forgot how I guess and they hit the gas for the brakes... I bet their car insurance has doubled lately.... It need to be more driving instructor places open that can help these older people drive better again because they sure have forgotten how to drive...

In the mean time I'm trying to get back to what I can do best so I know a casino trip will be in the plans real soon according to my wife... I guess her working at a bank makes her want to go gamble more often and she does win most of the times we go and I do pretty good myself....

More next time!!!!