My Motorcycle Injuries

Can I just start this post by stating that I feel really beat up and tired? Thanks. Between taking care of my 8 month old niece for over 9 hours a day on weekdays, doing some necessary landscaping at my house (when your wife mentions it from time to time for a few years, it becomes necessary), and the general condition of my post-accident body…yeah, I’m tired. The thing is that I can never be certain that it’s just the accident injuries and the ensuing diabetes that’s killing me so slowly. The accident occurred just about a month shy of 6 years ago. I was fifty years old then. That’s somewhere between the middle age to early-bird-special age brackets, right? I’m now 56. I mean, that’s like 9 in dog years, know what I’m sayin’?   So…I’m left wondering if some of my problems are age related as opposed to accident injury related. I just know that my wrist, hand, knee, shin, and hip hurt more than the rest of my body. By coincidence, those are some of the areas hurt when my bike ate th...

I’ve mentioned before that I help to take care of my baby niece during the week. This is the third baby that I’ve helped to raise (my own daughter and this baby’s older sister included), but I seem to learn new things with each one. What I’m noticing with this little cutie is the fact that everything seems to change from day to day. I’d forgotten that about babies through the years. I’m realizing now that her sleep patterns, her eating patterns, and the kind of mood that she’s in (hyper/mellow, playful/fussy, silly/serious) all seem to change from day to day. Every time that I think I’m on top of who she is and what she needs, she changes again. I can only be careful to watch daily and adjust accordingly. Do you want to know the weird thing about these thoughts? My mind and my body are the same as the baby’s. My physical condition, along with my mood and perspective, seems to change as time rolls on. I believe that things change constantly within my mind concerning my physical circumst...