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Good morning, firefly-dreamers!
Sorry I'm late with this week's post. I overslept, and I had some other stuff to do earlier before I finally got here.
Anyway, things are about to take a new (and hopefully, even better) turn for me. A week from today, I have to be at the New England Baptist Surgicare Center in Brookline Village, for my minor hand surgery, at 6:30 in the morning, to be sedated, etc., prior to my 8:30 a. m. procedure. Since New England Baptist Hospital has a reputation for excellency regarding bone and/or joint issues, I'm confident that the procedure (which is a minor out-patient procedure) will go well.
So, after TKD class next Wednesday night, I'll drive to my family's house, spend the night there, do the at-home preps that I'm supposed to do, and my brother'll drive me to the Surgicare Center that morning. I'll keep everybody posted as to how the surgery and the recovery period goes, however.
I was not particularly anxious to have surgery, but I've decided that there's no other option for me at this point, especially since it's a little more inflamed than it was earlier. What I'm afraid of happening is the possibility of my inflamed "trigger finger" being bent, and that I'll be unable to straighten it, and that i'd have to get the surgery done on an emergency basis, which I don't want. I also don't want a permanently bent finger, because that wouldn't be good...for anything. |
| Hopefully, the recovery period after my minor hand procedure will be very short, and that I'll be able to resume my normal life pretty quickly.
Regarding my TKD class; there's a very nice young woman, a black belt in TKD, who comes over to our club once a week and offers one on one tutoring (at no extra cost), to anybody who wants it, in any technique or whatever. I found that it's helped me a great deal so far. Sure, I'm a slower learner, but part if it's due to the fact that I do often have difficulty concentrating. Yet, slower learners often have the advantage of much better retention of what they've learned. Isn't it weird how things that've come harder to me are also the most rewarding.
Had I opted to play the very cards that were dealt to me, fully accepted my limitations and not chosen to do stuff that I not only liked doing, but that were a challenge to my body, my mind and coordination, I would not have gotten as far as I did. Because autism and Asperger's Syndrome are such poorly-understood afflictions, most people, including those in the helping professions (i. e. therapists, mental health councilors, etc.), as well as most ordinary, everyday people, believe that such afflictions cannot be overcome under any circumstances, and that a person who's afflicted with such a disorder can only live with it, a glass ceiling has been created, with the help of most people. Nowadays, willful ignorance and/or wide-eyed naivety (albeit the "dumbing down" or fucktardation of America") are all too often the order of the day, even among many people who're presumably decent and intelligent, and it's helped create even greater hardships for many people with such afflictions as autism, Aspergers, or ADD/ADHD, and various types of mental illness and/or mental retardation, who are trying their best to negotiate the regular, real world the best they can.
Nor do most people believe that people who're less severely afflicted with such problems can "recover" and lead normal, productive lives like most people. Listening is a huge problem, among most people, because most people really don't listen. What then, are autism, Aspergers and ADD/ADHD? They're continuums of many of the behavior patterns in so-called "normal" people, only, for whatever reason, excessive amounts of such behaviors are present in people with such afflictions. Genetics, too, are said to contribute pretty heavily towards these afflictions, and, while certain genes can be beneficial in smaller amounts, excessive amounts of these same genetic patterns can and often will cause problems.
The notion that assisted deliveries such as a forceps, a ventouse (suction cup), or Caesarean deliveries produce such problems has also been pretty much de-bunked. First of all, people come into the world with such innate problems and nobody knows how or why that's the casel
Secondly, one theory that's been gaining more and more support among everyday, ordinary people, as well as medical professionals alike is that a prolonged labor, whether it culminates in some sort of assisted delivery or not, is an indication that there are problems that're already present; that the person afflicted with such problems, especially neurological problems such as autism, Aspergers, ADD/ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, and even mental retardation, were already hard-wired together like that well before birth; inotherwords, in utero, during fetal development. That's to be believed, since coordination and movement begin during fetal development, in utero, and babies with neurological problems often have much more difficulty passing down through the birth canal, thus often necessitating an assisted delivery via a Caesarean Section, forceps and/or ventouse.
Forceps aren't as commonly used as they were many decades ago, but they're still used fairly often, nonetheless. Caesarean sections and ventouse deliveries have take the place of a lot of forceps deliveries. It's also far too easy, particularly in today's litiginous society, to point fingers and blame problems that a person comes up with on an assisted delivery, but that's not a realistic, rational attitude. There really is no explanation for such afflictions, as much as many doctors, etc., as well as everyday, ordinary people may constantly look for them, except that such problems are caused by a biological glitch in the nervous system that's innate, and that people just come into the world with such affllctions and nobody knows how or why. If there's any real culprit, it's often Mother Nature herself.
This is not to say that doctors and other medical professionals don't make errors, because medical errors are made. Deprivation of oxygen at the time of birth, for example, could conceivably destroy certain brain cells and cause a number of problems, including CP (Cerebral Palsy), and other problems, which is what I think is meant by a brain injury.
Back to the finger surgery; I just want to get it over with!
Before I forget: Here is some music of the 1980's that I also like a great deal, despite the somewhat sordid messages that they present:
http://youtu.be/PHPi0W1inTg
http://youtu.be/d7uKjo_URBo
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