I woke up to stagger to the bathroom, on the way I realized I felt a lot worse than when I went to sleep. My mouth really hurt, so I look at my tongue in the mirror and notice it has been chewed up. There is nothing like that initial moment of realization, “I just had another seizure.”
Fortunately I was in bed lying down this time so I didn’t fall or get hurt. The only thing I really remember is the first convulsion and waking up several hours later.
If you look around you will notice a few more changes around the site as of late. That’s right I sold out and added Google ads to Stupid Hurts. Please do me a favor and click some of the links, It took me a while to hack all the code to get it to work correctly with my template.
The video is the band Reel Big Fish. I love them and it sums up the whole situation. My favorite part was the first ad I got back was “predict how you are going to die”
My friend Matt has recently had the grand opening of his scooter shop “Magic City Scooters“. Since I have known him forever, and I hang around the place all the the time. I made it a point to be there for the shop’s grand opening.
Back when we first met this is what the acme building looked like.
Since then, it has come an amazingly long way. Thanks to an amazing amount of work on his part to look like this.
It was really nice to see Matt bouncing around like a proud parent, shaking hands, and hugging people, while returning warms smiles and congratulatory handshakes.
I haven’t really been up to much lately. But one of my favorite ways to pass time and get ideas is the messenger bag group on Flickr
Several of my bags are posted in there, as well of several other amazing works of art.
I found out today that one of the members on bike forums has a personal website were he talks about cyclists who have been killed or seriously injured by motorists. His name is Corey Keizer, and the site is 15rides.blogspot.com. He has been hit by twice vehicles and he is working hard to raise awareness about cyclist rights. I looked over his site and I really like what he is up. Since I have been looking for a third jersey to round out my collection and I think I am going to go with the one available on his site. The jersey is $60 total and that’s about average for a good jersey, it also helps knowing the profits are going to cycling related charityies.The jersey is available here
Normally I don’t go out of my way to promote sites or products, but I think I will go ahead and push this one as much as possible. A few people already know that my dad had to give motorcycles and bicycles up after he was struck by a woman in a head on collision, because she drove off the express way through a fence and onto an access road. Leaving him in a coma for three months a paralyzed for six months, just because she was trying to change a c.d.
After spending more than 8 hours total in the hospital on Friday, I learned something very important. I’m not dead yet. I don’t think I was all too sure of this fact before, but having a second opinion has left me feeling all sorts warm and fuzzy. Truthfully nothing really new was accomplished, the staff asked me the same battery of questions they asked on Tuesday, but I think the best part of the entire ordeal was when my doctor’s jaw dropped when he found out how much Topomax actually cost retail.
After that I rushed across town to keep a second appointment with a new doctor, and to deliver some medical paperwork. That lead to more waiting and more testing. As the doctor read over my notes he spoke about a weird sense of deja-vu he got from them. Apparently he was one of the members of the board of neurology who was presented with my case several months ago when I was first admitted to the hospital and they originally couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me. I always said I was going to be famous one day, but this wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.
Leaving Cooper Green I passed these hospital beds being stored in the parking deck. I am curious to find out if they ran out of space, are they broken, or if this is just where they keep the“special” patients.
Fortunately I have managed to get one of several doctors appointments for the week out of the way. Now I just have the two more on Friday to deal with.
Unfortunately I called my lawyer to get several questions answered only to find out she was no longer employed by the company, and no one thought to inform me of this. While talking to a different lawyer she was able to answer several questions I had, but she also told me the expected turn around time on a disability case was 12-15 months, which is surprising considering it got denied originally in less than 3 weeks.
I thought my medical bills were only somewhere in the 30k range. My mom was nice enough to politely correct that notion last night. My expenses surpassed 100k so long ago we have since forgotten what it looked like as it whizzed past to become a dark smudge on the horizon.
I feel bad putting this kind of stress of mom, because even though she has not said much I know she has worked extremely hard in en effort to maintain some sort of quality of living for the both of us. I tried to help when I worked at the Yatch Club Feeding myself and what not. Even though it resulted in several smaller seizures at work. I am not sure what to do next. It just all feels really heavy all of a sudden.
