Yours Truly Bites the Dust

There are some weird stories going around about me and my absence from this publication. So let me clarify.

No, I didn’t try to bulldog a buffalo.

No, I didn’t receive these injuries in the largest bar in the world.

I had cataract surgery on my left eye two weeks prior, so on this day I had the procedure done on my right eye.

When I exited the building I remember saying, “I’m blind” because the sun was so bright.

The next thing I knew I went off an escarpment. The wheelchair hit and then turned left, landing on its right side, and throwing me off onto the asphalt. I knew I couldn’t lift myself up, and the nurses and staff at the surgery center said they couldn’t either, so they called an ambulance. The EMTs said they wanted me to go to the hospital, but I declined and requested they pick me up and put me on my wheelchair, which they did and I rode into my van.

To be honest that is the last thing I remember until I woke up in the hospital in Las Cruces. Apparently, I was making no sense and looking much sicker and my daughter and caregiver talked me in to going to the hospital. This was two days after the incident. They found that I had a twisted colon, which had become infected. After two different procedures they had it fixed. They had removed a part of the colon and gave me a colostomy bag.

There were a few setbacks and complications, but I got to come home this week

I hope to kick the blog off this weekend and have a full column for the next edition of this pub. ▫