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One Week At A Time!!


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Well to all my fellow members here, I'm just getting by one day at a time, as I still don't really know what caused my latest in ability to do what I had been doing for the past 11 years!!! My walking is terrible even with my quad cane everywhere I go... I got my scooter in the SUV and one in the house downstairs... My knee has healed up from the operation but my left side seems to have gotten worse and of course it's still paralyzed but seems like even more now than ever before...

 

I'm sure now age is a factor but I keep on moving every day and going to appointments when I need to go. That's one reason I haven't been posting on here the last few days... Then real soon I got to start on my Taxes or 15 April will be here before I know it... I have been doing my taxes now for many years... With my house being paid off I hope to get some money back for a change this year...

 

My wife plans on working for at least ten more years since she knows I can handle things for myself and here at home these days... She don't have to go to any appointments with me since I can drive but she still does to get a few hours off from work... Therefore, my time and life is pretty much "One week at a Time" Nothing to hurry up and do or get done...

 

Now to the weather, man this has been a big change all across the US for sure, coast to coast and it's not finished yet... I'm so glad I got a health care provider for two hours, five days each week, to help me get the little things done that I can't seem to manage with one hand and one good leg...

 

I'm still here with many, many disabled veterans like myself, but many of them have prosthetic limbs and small kids at home... So we meet on the Army base at different eating establishments for lunch on some days when the wives keep the small kids at home... So retired life with disabilities are not so bad when we put our minds to work on feeling better and getting out doing things... You have to keep your mind busy or you'll go crazy I think trying to figure out what all you can't do for yourself!!!! There is so much we can do weather providing of course...

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you are doing so well fred and at your young age!  I can identify with not being able to do today what I did with ease a year ago.  I think not so much about where I will be tomorrow nor where I was yesterday, but where I am and what I can do today. you have a most incredible attitude and I am encouraged by all of your posts.

 

take care my friend,

 

david

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David,

 

In my mind I struggle with "How well will I be a month from now." I want to walk again not stumbling along, falling, and needing help to get around or in home care from an organization like I am getting now... I was a happy camper before the trip to Vegas now it feels as if the bottom has fallen out of my life for good... Maybe, just maybe I can somehow get back to that state of mind soon... I pray daily morning and nights...

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Fred  I think that you are munch to hard on yourself at least you are trying to even get more and you will Fred you have a very good attitude at getting better all the time , it may be slow Fred not only is it a day to day bases but it is also a year to year bases.  The key is to never give up Fred and I can see by your blog that you won"t and you will get better. I will pray for you Fred love hearing from you keep up the great work,

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Fred you are such a strong warrior and it really has not been much time since your injury for all the healing so please be encouraged. Hope is always like a greased pig isn't it just as you get hold of it then off it goes.  You are needed to cheer on those young wounded warriors who are trying to hold families together now.  I am always enlightened by your posts because your attitude and planning are a joy to read.

I pray you have peace and joy because I know you give so much.

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