33/100 Making Plans
32/100 Why That Word?
This may be more of a rant than a poem. Nearly all of the healthcare professionals that Weber has encountered in the last week due to his knee replacement surgery have been fantastic. The one exception is the home health nurse who came to the house on Saturday to admit him to home physical therapy. The whole time that she was here, she kept making rude and unprofessional remarks about her geriatric patients–“Those 80 and 90 year olds don’t know…
31/100 Balance
30/100 This Place
29/100 Takeout
28/100 Teardrop
Sometimes working with limitations makes the task easier and other times it becomes much more difficult. I have no brain power today. I thought creating a piece of blackout poetry would be less taxing than sitting down to write from scratch, especialluy because I told myself that I was going to pull one random page from a discarded novel and that would have to do. I did that, and that one page was a tough one with which to…
27/100 Unavailable
26/100 Rest
25/100 What A Surprise
‘They” say that the most honest writing is expressed when you feel that you have nothing to give. Tonight I am writing from the hospital as I sit with Weber, who had knee replacement surgery today. I have been upright for eighteen hours and had only four hours of sleep prior. Despite all that, I am grateful for all that this day brought—-for a successful surgery and for a friend who got up at 4am to drive us to the…