The institution which is managing our Rehabilitation started slowly today, easing itself into another vigorous week of emphatic success. That is what the Socotra House Legal Section told us to say, and to be flattering to both the Occupational and Physical Therapy staffs who are managing the process. We tried that, but the other stuff […]

I did not make any measurable therapeutic progress today. It was almost a perfect 360-degree arc from last Tuesday’s launch for recovery into disaster Wednesday, followed by Triumphant Thursday and into a satisfied Friday festooned with pride but without new landmarks. The weekend was marked by gentle Yoga and a few sit-ups and the onset […]

It would be premature to wish I understood the icons on this app too insert some bursting arcs of triumph here. I also understand overestimating the consequences of one good day after a host of days filled the clouds of struggle. But it is Spring, darn it, and this is the peak day of the […]

A day in which some Lessons-Learned yesterday were applied and others fell, in the manner of the Depends briefs on the return run from the Nurse’s Station at the end of Wing 1 North after all this . You can dispense with the details or skip to the end to see whose end is in […]

Summary: Most miserable day of recovery. It was not a function of over-exertion in anything in particular but rather a failure to recognize the important and significant excercise in simply sitting upright in one degree of gravity. The stranded Astronaut recover on return to Earth are an extreme example of the recovery necessary after a […]