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Freedom

There's about 60 seperate reasons about this picture that are "Bon".
First of all it may not seem obvious to all but the location of this is greater than 500 meters of the nearest hospital, which means to those who don't know I've extricated myself from the hospital. Permanently. Yep, 2 1/2 months and they've willingly released my ass. Thats a good thing. My doctor and the hospital has given me probationary leave, meaning they've released me to my parents place. 20 days until I turn 30, nothing like living with my parents again. As usual they have been nothing more than amazing during this whole thing, even after scaring the $#%# out of them for 29 years. Seen as I have about 2 appointments a week and 6 different doctors and Phyisio's to see in Canmore and Calgary heading back to Squamish isn't really in the books for the next while, thankfully my house is renting out with minimal complications, which is unusual.

As you can see as well my truck landed back in the Can. Fresh from sitting in Squam and from Utah where a bought it back in October. I've never been a motorhead, but needless to say I'm pretty psyched on this thing even though I'm having trouble climbing into the cab and the biggest crux of the day is even managing to get down the 10 degree slope needed access the door. Don't tell anyone but I'm not supposed to be driving, I say I've never been more prepared, most people drive with one arm, and most with one leg. Most of all I've been sitting and on my back so long being strapped into the seat is as familiar as snuggling up to my favorite foothills gurnee. I figure I'll make my way back into the club. I'm human again, I can get around, stumble my way into houses and clinics under my own power. Ahh the silver bullet, good to have it back. By the way it's for sale.

You may not notice from the pixilation but there is a shimmering and fresh disabled parking tag hanging from the rearview. I had a dream. A quick comment, Canmore needs a more disabled parking, I spent all of friday driving around and managed to find all four. You'll find me hanging out in front of Safeway and Rusticana for the next 2 months.

The high grade ergonomic walker rental is my constant companion, I'm managing to hop around with my right leg, meaning the pelvis and sacrum break is pretty well healed, although it doesn't necessarily feel like that when I wake up in the morning. The tibia shattered break is taking it time, which isn't uncommon. Most people would use crutches but the arm situ negates the use of them, therefore I get to practice being a geriatric for the while. And last to note is the yellow flagging, kind of like a reflector so when I'm crossing the street I'm visible to oncoming traffic.

Onto more serious things, many of you have been wondering how the past week has gone as I've been in touch with two peripheral nerve specialists both brought in to give there opinion on whether or not they think they can get my arm running properly again. Since leaving the hospital and trying to get back into a some what normal existence having my arm back would be nice. This may seem weird but its almost harder the more normal things become because the difficulties really begin to present themselves, for example it takes me about 10 minutes to do a zipper up. Just annoying. It'd be nice to climb again, even if it was 5.9.

Monday I met with Dr.Midha. Strong with the peripheral nerve force Midha is, possibly the most Yoda'ish in Canada. His synopsis was a minor brachial plexus stretch and a major traction injury to the muscularcutaneous nerve which works the bicep. This better news from what I was originally hearing but more importantly solidified my beliefs on the subject. Rule number 86, take great heed to what YOU may think the issue is when dealing with medical issues. You live with the condition.
Basically if nothing improves by beggining of May then he wants to dip in with the scalpal. Anything can happen from there as it could mean a whole variety of htings to simple diagnostic tests or nerve transfers. Basically the use of my arm is still up in the air, and more waiting, patiently, without a real diagnosis...
The second specialist basically reiterated the first which I appreciated, but I'm still considering going to see a specialist in the States and selling the house in Squam. Seems like a reasonable trade. I've been referred also to a sports Physiarist, not really sure what a Physiatrist does but I believe more heads the better.

So, I'm at my parents place for the next ? how long, working on the computer, coding (By the way for those of you in Vancouver, www.vancouver-traffic.com is up and running) and hanging out with "bob" the dog and hanging out. Feel free to drop by.

Specialist #1 Verdict

Opinion: Minor Brachial plexus injury, major injury to Muscularcutaneous nerve (bicep nerve). Go under the knife early May and conduct either nerve transfer or nerve graft.
The prognosis for either is up in the air but better than what was initially thought with having a major brachial plexus injury.
Basically this is good news.
I'm heading to another specialist in the same field manyana.
I'll write more in a couple days when I have some more time.

Thanks again to all those who have given me support.
Geisler, your the king for bringing my truck back from the coast