Well, here I am with nothing to do but read, watch DVDs and write. Ain't it great to be healing!
A sample Haiku for those following my healing progress:
Belly torn to shreds
Stitches makes me whole again
I grab the remote
Well, now you know what I'm talkin' 'bout. Nina has been great at pampering me, but I must start soon to get around and do things... like find a new job!
More later...
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Note from Monday I posted on Facebook...
This was a note I posted on Facebook this past Monday...
Friends and family,
Some have asked about my minor hernia surgery tomorrow 11/20/07. I found out from a call to the hospital a couple hours ago that my operation is due to start at 7:30am tomorrow, so we are going to Park-Ridge at 6 o’clock in the morning!
They say I will be in surgery for only 1.5 hours and then recovery is about an hour. I can’t believe that I will be home by noon, but it looks that way. It really seems like quite a routine operation these days, but I welcome your prayers and thoughts as I am in surgery, so please share this tonight with others if you want. If you want to, a phone call or email when I am home for 2 weeks recovering would be nice as well if you’re not too busy. Please pray for Nina too, since I will become an even bigger burden on her, I’m sure, as I heal. :-)
I actually figured out a way to have my PC monitor accessible with cables and using a wireless keyboard and mouse I might be online from time to time. Mostly, though, I’ll be resting and reading and watching DVDs. I hope I don’t go stir crazy as I am told by some of you who’ve had this surgery in the past that it is very important to lay still and heal properly.
Thanks for your concerns and I hope to see you on the other side of all this….
Blessings,
-Paul
Friends and family,
Some have asked about my minor hernia surgery tomorrow 11/20/07. I found out from a call to the hospital a couple hours ago that my operation is due to start at 7:30am tomorrow, so we are going to Park-Ridge at 6 o’clock in the morning!
They say I will be in surgery for only 1.5 hours and then recovery is about an hour. I can’t believe that I will be home by noon, but it looks that way. It really seems like quite a routine operation these days, but I welcome your prayers and thoughts as I am in surgery, so please share this tonight with others if you want. If you want to, a phone call or email when I am home for 2 weeks recovering would be nice as well if you’re not too busy. Please pray for Nina too, since I will become an even bigger burden on her, I’m sure, as I heal. :-)
I actually figured out a way to have my PC monitor accessible with cables and using a wireless keyboard and mouse I might be online from time to time. Mostly, though, I’ll be resting and reading and watching DVDs. I hope I don’t go stir crazy as I am told by some of you who’ve had this surgery in the past that it is very important to lay still and heal properly.
Thanks for your concerns and I hope to see you on the other side of all this….
Blessings,
-Paul
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Clean clean clean...
So except for writing this blog entry, I've been cleaning my home in preparation for Thanksgiving Day and for the fact that I'll be laid up for about 2 weeks because of surgery.
It's strange to have to be careful in lifting heavy objects (due to the hernia I have and will be operated for) so as not to damage anything further. However, the house is a mess, and I need to prepare of good living space for my recovery.
I'm reminded of a dear friend who went through SO much more than I will be with her son's kidney operation over this past summer. She was skilled at endearing herself to others and endorsing the help of others to the extent of making David's operation successful. She held spaghetti dinners for fundraising, an event with performing bands, little donation cups around MCC where we both worked, and even won second place at a local Touch-a-thon for a car helping out kidney disease. This past year has been one of great struggle and great success for her and her son and sister (her sister donated the kidney to her son).
So, remembering all they went through should make this 2 week inconvenience a breeze, right? Well, in some senses it will be, but I am still concerned about going under the knife. What also doesn't help is that I am still looking for a new full-time job, and my arrangement with my previous employer runs out in the middle of my recovery time.
I thought I would be re-employed by now... :-( I suppose I ought to just pray that all goes well with the surgery, and take things one step at a time...
It's strange to have to be careful in lifting heavy objects (due to the hernia I have and will be operated for) so as not to damage anything further. However, the house is a mess, and I need to prepare of good living space for my recovery.
I'm reminded of a dear friend who went through SO much more than I will be with her son's kidney operation over this past summer. She was skilled at endearing herself to others and endorsing the help of others to the extent of making David's operation successful. She held spaghetti dinners for fundraising, an event with performing bands, little donation cups around MCC where we both worked, and even won second place at a local Touch-a-thon for a car helping out kidney disease. This past year has been one of great struggle and great success for her and her son and sister (her sister donated the kidney to her son).
So, remembering all they went through should make this 2 week inconvenience a breeze, right? Well, in some senses it will be, but I am still concerned about going under the knife. What also doesn't help is that I am still looking for a new full-time job, and my arrangement with my previous employer runs out in the middle of my recovery time.
I thought I would be re-employed by now... :-( I suppose I ought to just pray that all goes well with the surgery, and take things one step at a time...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
3D animation is all over the place!
So, I've been working freelance on this cool racing car type animation. It's actually a company called Forced Dynamics through a long time friend of mine who is designing their marketing campaign. He is bring their product to a new level and suggesting they put it in amusement parks and casinos. I also suggested putting it in existing speedways (like Spencer Speedway near here)... he is considering it.
What is different that Chris is suggesting is that the ride be linked to many others of its same kind in a multi-player system all in the same paddock or room. I also suggested that they could run the system multi-player mode with other parks having a player in Disneyland and a player in Darien Lake and other players at Busch Gardens and other Six Flags outlets all playing each other live at once.
These machines are not cheap, but the animation we made should help conceptualize the idea of the multi-player option from within the same room idea.
Here is a link to the animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07fcdMxREzc
What is different that Chris is suggesting is that the ride be linked to many others of its same kind in a multi-player system all in the same paddock or room. I also suggested that they could run the system multi-player mode with other parks having a player in Disneyland and a player in Darien Lake and other players at Busch Gardens and other Six Flags outlets all playing each other live at once.
These machines are not cheap, but the animation we made should help conceptualize the idea of the multi-player option from within the same room idea.
Here is a link to the animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07fcdMxREzc
Sunday, November 11, 2007
C'est la vie...
So, I found out I have a structure in my umbilicus area that has either collapsed due to a rip in my muscles around it or is congenitally weak. Not sure why the doctor doesn't need to find out which since he wants to do surgery in about a week.
Bummer, as I am trying to find a new job and having a 2-week span where I have to stay bed-ridden isn't the greatest timing right now. If this had happened a few weeks ago it would have been better for the job hunt.
Well, I am confirming all things tomorrow with the doctor's office, and most likely then I will be eating Thanksgiving turkey from my bed with my wife and bedside support. My family is due to come over that evening (even out of town family), so I suppose I'll have to have visits from them to the room to say hello briefly.
If I waited until after T-day (which was an option offered to me) then I'd have to tell any prospective employer that my start date would have to be delayed that much more. As a good college friend of mine used to say, "C'est la vie"... and now I go to sleep...
Bummer, as I am trying to find a new job and having a 2-week span where I have to stay bed-ridden isn't the greatest timing right now. If this had happened a few weeks ago it would have been better for the job hunt.
Well, I am confirming all things tomorrow with the doctor's office, and most likely then I will be eating Thanksgiving turkey from my bed with my wife and bedside support. My family is due to come over that evening (even out of town family), so I suppose I'll have to have visits from them to the room to say hello briefly.
If I waited until after T-day (which was an option offered to me) then I'd have to tell any prospective employer that my start date would have to be delayed that much more. As a good college friend of mine used to say, "C'est la vie"... and now I go to sleep...
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Labyrinth
Wow! Last T'ai Chi class we got to use the labyrinth!
It is very cool and it printed on the floor where we do T'ai Chi. We've all been curious about it for weeks. Even when we start a class we organically have been lining up our mats with the outer ring of the labyrinth circle facing each other.
Funny thing is, that is takes about 10 minutes to walk it. It doesn't seem like it would take that long, but I checked. During that time you are concentrating on not thinking about anything - letting your mind go, so to speak, and it's very refreshing. Because of the nature of the labyrinth being a single narrow path to the inside of the thing, when you get there you come back out and invariably meet up with others who are 'going into' the center. So, a little but of interruption occurs as you or the other person steps aside to allow both to continue. It wasn't too distracting, but I'd like to walk the labyrinth alone someday.
It is very cool and it printed on the floor where we do T'ai Chi. We've all been curious about it for weeks. Even when we start a class we organically have been lining up our mats with the outer ring of the labyrinth circle facing each other.
Funny thing is, that is takes about 10 minutes to walk it. It doesn't seem like it would take that long, but I checked. During that time you are concentrating on not thinking about anything - letting your mind go, so to speak, and it's very refreshing. Because of the nature of the labyrinth being a single narrow path to the inside of the thing, when you get there you come back out and invariably meet up with others who are 'going into' the center. So, a little but of interruption occurs as you or the other person steps aside to allow both to continue. It wasn't too distracting, but I'd like to walk the labyrinth alone someday.
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