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I am continuing to regain my mobility, strength and balance every day. I am currently moderating on the quiet so I can spend more time in "rehab mode." Thank you for asking, it's much appreciated! 🙏

Oddly enough, I received your snail-mail the same day I posted my original report. I will post my contact information in the Staff forum where it will remain visible only to you and my fellow mods. 😉

Thanks, VP... 😁

That course of action is my primary goal now. No longer will I simply accept things as a "new normal" and instead follow through with the help from my physical and occupational therapists who are working with me three times each week. In addition to the above, I have three visiting nurses who check my vitals Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. All of these professionals have enabled me to return to my house and feel safer since I live alone in a heavily forested and remote location. I have a steady stream of visitors these days who check on my welfare every day... Between the VA, Atena (who manage my medicare and medicaid coverage), I feel more secure and cared for than previously! I have a housekeeper who comes two days a week to help keep my dishes, laundry and other needs under control. Aetna even arranged to have four weeks of prepared meals delivered at no charge. I can quickly have my microwave heat up my meals during my recovery. Thanks for the kind wishes and prayers my friend!

Gratias tibi!

Thanks, for the kind words and wishes Noel! You just saved me having to search for your presence here... These last few months the Lord has heard a lot from me as I prayed every day for both you and my many friends here.

If anyone was missing my presence, this has not been a good two years. Last year I was hospitalized four times; the first two times were for severe lung congestion, the third bout turned out to be two bleeding ulcers (where I lost 4 units of blood), and I closed out 2025 with yet another case of lung congestion. This year I managed to fall and break the hip ball and socket of my right leg. Last week I was able to read the surgeon's report and learned that for a brief moment I was technically dead, having stopped breathing entirely. Fortunately, they had everything ready and immediately intubated me and also inserted a feeding tube, since I needed to be kept under anesthesia for almost three weeks. When I was released from the induced coma, I woke up to find myself in a rehabilitation facility so that I could receive therapy for my rebuilt hip. I have now been back home and am receiving therapy from two technicians and am at least able to very cautiously walk around the house. I'm being very cautious about using my wheelchair and/or walker, especially so since having fallen yet again last week and lay on the hard floor for nearly four hours. I finally managed to get to my phone and call 911 for help. My emergency pendant was still being charged, and, in any case, I could not have reached it on the kitchen counter, well out of my reach! Luckily, x-rays showed that I did not rebreak my right hip, ball and socket thanks be to God... I now put the emergency pendant on charge as I go to bed and put it on before I get out of bed. I'm lucky to have a sweet older lady as a landlord, and she and her partner had a wide wheelchair ramp built for me even before I needed it. My Army buddy found me a wheelchair an elderly woman was selling that was brand new and still in its packaging for fifty dollars! Her husband unfortunately passed on from his illness before he got home from a local hospice. I now have a lady assigned to come twice each week for three hours to help keep my house clean and sheets changed. I felt it was time to explain my long absence from AVSIM.

Well, that is certainly true. My late dog came into the bathroom while I was taking care of business, lay across my bare feet, and promptly had what my vet pronounced a "stroke." Several in a row actually... After carefully freeing my trapped feet, I picked Bubba up, who fortunately was a miniature dauschund so didn't weigh too much and drove him to the vet. He was still alive but demonstrably suffering. After a careful examination, the vet gave me the sad news. I held Bubba for the last time while he was put to sleep. I left the exam room in shock and sorrow, bawling my eyes out. There were about a dozen people with their own pets waiting to be seen. It was very touching that all of them gave me a comforting hug as I passed through the waiting room.

You would likely enjoy watching Matt's Off Road Recovery videos then. He personally owns at least 20 Corvairs and the most recent count. He just loves Corvairs! His "signature" recovery vehicle is a heavily modified Corvair Station Wagon they named the "MOORVAIR..."

That is no great surprise since Lockheed-Martin intended from the outset to be a professional flight simulator. In actual fact, they had originally intended for P3D to not be sold for "recreational use." It took a lot of "lobbying" from simmers to change their original plans.

I am at least covered by the Veteran's Administration for all of my health needs sans dental care. One has to have served a full 20 years to gain dental coverage. I had to have two X-Rays taken a few weeks ago and asked to use the Community Care option to have it done in one of the two local hospitals rather than having to drive 70 miles round trip to the VA Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. If I hadn't had VA coverage, the bill would have been $3,920 USD! The Medicare approved rate was a paltry $83.71 with zero co-pay, which is what the government considers a fair rate. This is but one example of the ridiculous disparity between those who have insurance coverage versus those who are uninsured...

I have been watching a wonderful and entertaining series featuring the charity run Helicopter Medics where they literally bring the A&E advanced care directly to the injured parties. What a wonderful service! What is so interesting is that this series features real patients not staged like they would be here in the U.S.

Spot was very fortunate to have Data as his friend and protector!

"Fascinating," thus spake Spock.