The Rantings of Quadius

The intention of this blog is to give an accounting of what transpires in the life of an average high-level (C2-3) quadriplegic. Since this is a journal, many of the posts are not related to paralysis per se, but are simply meant to show my particular way of thinking. Some of my views have been tempered by the quadriplegia from which I suffer, while others have remained unchanged. I will try to highlight the differences.

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Name: Quadius
Location: Tampa, Florida

Although inhibited by physical challenges, I am most assuredly not constrained in matters of the heart and mind. I am first of all honest with good morals and values. I am not extremely shy and with the right person my sense of humor flourishes. I have an eclectic bevy of interest, but foremost among them is my passion for meeting people of all walks of life and engaging in intelligent conversations.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Why it is aggravating to be a quad sometimes

There are those days which really aggravate me and this is one of them. Why do they seem to occur when I really feel like a ball of fire with nothing but desire to accomplish everything I set out to do? Once again I had all of these things on my list to accomplish and many of them involved dictating e-mails and even an entry. Well, for some reason my microphone isn't getting the accuracy it normally does. I really think it had something to do with the way it is plugged in to the transmitter or possibly my PCA (personal care attendant) might have inadvertently turn down the volume on the microphone when she was plugging it in. I tend to believe the latter is more likely today.
The really unfortunate part is last night as I was just getting ready to go to bed, I had a breakthrough with something I had been working on for quite some time. It always seems to happen when I can't really do much about it, but today I awoke with all of the same thoughts and the notes are already down on paper. Today, however, unbelievably I am having to dictate much too loud and with my portable AC running in the background it is almost next to impossible to do the extensive dictation I had planned for the entry. I guess I'll just have to be satisfied with sending out the multiple e-mails and making numerous phone calls.
The worst part is that yesterday everything was working great, but my bowels were feeling really terrible. Today my bowels are doing too great, but I seem to be able to function and really feel like getting as much accomplished as possible. I can working here for short spurts without the AC on, but it is just not conducive for long extended periods.
I will probably be taking a respite on this particular blog. I am not sure exactly when that will commence, but as I grow closer to the day I had scheduled for a colonoscopy, I will need to focus on making sure all the preparations are in order and I have all of my wills and living will taking care of prior to going to the hospital for a few days.
This thing has been a pain in the butt to dictate, so I know how bad it would be to try to do much work on the entry. Sadly I can't even go outside and see if anyone is about that than turn the volume up because it is raining cats and dogs right now. We need the rain, so I'm not going to complain about that.
Well, I better get going. I still have quite a few e-mails and phone calls to make.

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