Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:53 pm
Lori,
Nawwww, http://www.spinalinjury.freeuk.com/homepage.htm is not my site. The guy who runs it is named Andy and calls himself Moose. I happened on it a little more than two years ago, posted there some for a few months, and didn't really return to it until this summer. It's not real active but every month or so someone posts who's had someone close suffer one of these horrendous Spinal Cord Injuries, and I like being able sometimes maybe to help a little. I broke my neck in 1963 and have had a fine active life, and while that obviously isn't what the fresh-from-the-ER posters need to hear, it gives me a useful perspective from which to comment.
Too, I'm a writer who has always lacked an audience. There, I have one, even though it's very small (this site has a hundred times the traffic). I'm posting my earlier novel there now, a new chapter each Monday, and will probably post my later one the same way beginning next spring. A few, maybe (and maybe not) a handful (which is to say 5), of people are reading it, and I work during the week to get the next Monday's chapter ready, which I like. I had an agent nibbling at my later book (a novel about quadriplegic masturbation--how can it miss?) from late October 2004 till this July, and when she definitively said no I was more disappointed than I'd expected. Posting the earlier one, THE HEALING, on Andy's site is part of my dealing with that disappointment. I rewrite my stuff over and over, leave it alone a year or two or three and go back to it and it still needs rewriting, but I like to feel it getting better and better. THE HEALING's a little pokey, has too many characters, and so on, but I like it, and I like the second one more. Anyway, working on it is why I won't be here as often as I otherwise might be. As I'm sure you've noticed, a board can be time-consuming!
I slept pretty well last night, waked five or six times but got back to sleep quickly. I think I'm still mouth breathing, will be interested to see how my oxymetry looks when I do it in three weeks or so. I was supposed to see my rep Wednesday but he had a death in the family so I don't know when he'll get to me. My over-all mood, I admit, is bad (restless, short attention span, physically off), but the actual CPAPing hours are about okay. Trala. Keep up the good work here, and I'll check back now and then.
Steve (Coach)
Nawwww, http://www.spinalinjury.freeuk.com/homepage.htm is not my site. The guy who runs it is named Andy and calls himself Moose. I happened on it a little more than two years ago, posted there some for a few months, and didn't really return to it until this summer. It's not real active but every month or so someone posts who's had someone close suffer one of these horrendous Spinal Cord Injuries, and I like being able sometimes maybe to help a little. I broke my neck in 1963 and have had a fine active life, and while that obviously isn't what the fresh-from-the-ER posters need to hear, it gives me a useful perspective from which to comment.
Too, I'm a writer who has always lacked an audience. There, I have one, even though it's very small (this site has a hundred times the traffic). I'm posting my earlier novel there now, a new chapter each Monday, and will probably post my later one the same way beginning next spring. A few, maybe (and maybe not) a handful (which is to say 5), of people are reading it, and I work during the week to get the next Monday's chapter ready, which I like. I had an agent nibbling at my later book (a novel about quadriplegic masturbation--how can it miss?) from late October 2004 till this July, and when she definitively said no I was more disappointed than I'd expected. Posting the earlier one, THE HEALING, on Andy's site is part of my dealing with that disappointment. I rewrite my stuff over and over, leave it alone a year or two or three and go back to it and it still needs rewriting, but I like to feel it getting better and better. THE HEALING's a little pokey, has too many characters, and so on, but I like it, and I like the second one more. Anyway, working on it is why I won't be here as often as I otherwise might be. As I'm sure you've noticed, a board can be time-consuming!
I slept pretty well last night, waked five or six times but got back to sleep quickly. I think I'm still mouth breathing, will be interested to see how my oxymetry looks when I do it in three weeks or so. I was supposed to see my rep Wednesday but he had a death in the family so I don't know when he'll get to me. My over-all mood, I admit, is bad (restless, short attention span, physically off), but the actual CPAPing hours are about okay. Trala. Keep up the good work here, and I'll check back now and then.
Steve (Coach)
It would feel so rewarding...