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A new begining
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A new begining Not too long ago I was an owner/operator truck driver. For the last year or so of my carrier I was thinking about hanging it up. Getting myself some land in the mountains and setting up my little hidey hole. Couple years of hitting it hard and I would have the means to become that preverbal hermit in the hills. Well, do you hear that sound in the background? That's life laughing while you plan. Now on with my little story. For those who don't know, to be able to legally drive a commercial vehicle, you must have a currant DOT physical. Mine was fixing to expire in November. So like the good little boy that I am, I had my deliveries set up to get me home just after the middle of October. So I unknowingly started my last week of driving looking foreword to getting home and having a much needed ride on my bike. Halfway through that week I began to feel sick. Fever, chills, sweats, you know, all the fun stuff. Friday I get my last delivery done and of to the house I go. At this time I know I'm not heading to my bike, I'm heading to the hospital. For in two days I went from what I earlier described to barley able to walk. If I hadn't had my cane in the truck with me, I would of been unable to even get out. I get to the hospital, they check me in and within an hour I'm admitted. After all the enjoyable things doctors like to put us through, they determine that for the second time within eight months, I've a staph infection in my lower left leg. After a few more tests, they determine that it's in the bone and that my two options are either amputation or life time antibiotics. Okay, like anyone, I do my research into the latter and find all sorts of problems with that route. I'll start with the obvious, as we all know, after awhile we build ourselves a tolerance. Due to this tolerance you become unable to fight the simplest thing with a small bottle of lets say amoxicillin. You now must go straight to IV antibiotics. Fun! Now for the final thing I found. With a life time regiment of antibiotics, it eventually goes after your own natural bacteria. Yeah, that was a hard pass. So, on October 30, they took out the saw and chopped that sucker off. I swear, I've never lost ten pounds so fast. Four day's later I'm home. I had a few visits to outpatient physical therapy but what they put me through was nothing compared to home therapy. Living in a split level home, with the bedrooms upstairs and the laundry all the way downstairs, that was work on it's own. Add in the fact that I was also having to keep up with my three year old grand- and three dogs. Now that's physical therapy! |
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1 post 5/21/2019 2:59 pm |
For some reason it keeps showing I've no blog here. Someone told me to try commenting on it to make it register. Who knows, may work
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