Let's rewind about 5 years to set the scene:

I'm running along, minding my own (and only a few other people's, I swear!) business, playing soccer with my friends about three times a week, when out of nowhere Tiger Woods shoots me in the heel with a golf ball.  And it was a long drive.  That ball had some speed on it.  (Dude is *accurate*.)  I'm ( Read more... )

My friendly non-neighborhood angledge prodded me to update, which I should've done a year ago so that all of you could continue to feel warm and comfy about your relative good luck with hospitals.  (Thanks, Ang!)

Finishing up loose ends from the kidney stone ordeal:
I didn't actually end on a cliff-hanger; I figured I had given you all enough info so that ( Read more... )

Part II: In which I am punished for my optimism

Those of you who have been reading these entries as they were posted probably thought that the previous entry would be the last, since the halo ordeal was over and I had loads of working out and catching up with my life to do.  Yeah, me, too!  And that was true for exactly two weeks, at which point my ( Read more... )

YES!  For all of you following on a moment-by-moment basis, I did indeed get my halo removed this morning!  And there was great rejoicing!  Can I get a Hallelujah and an Amen?!

I just got out of a loooooong shower, and feel sooooo clean.  You people who've never taken 3 months off from showering and bathing yourself might have a difficult time ( Read more... )

Here's a lesson for any current halo-wearers reading this journal: schedule your halo-removal doctor appointment and the preceding CT scan well ahead of time.  *You* keep track of the 12 weeks; don't assume the doctor is.  I've been going to see the neurosurgeon every few weeks, and after he Torquemadas the screws in my head, he sends me over to ( Read more... )

"Hi, my name is Mark, and I'm waiting for my life to restart."

When people know they're gonna die soon (see: Replicant), they live life to the full, if they can, but when you know you're gonna live (normally) again soon, you do the opposite (live life to the empty??).

We're now only 8 days away from the Big Day when I will supposedly get this ( Read more... )

If you look around at the various halo-wearers blogs on the web (for example, here's a good one from a female perspective), they generally have lots of entries at the beginning (how it happened, hospital horror stories, trying to adapt to life with this cyborg crap on), a few entries at the end (getting the thrice-damned thing off, post-cyborg ( Read more... )

We (Mark & Laura) really just use LJ as a means for playing the
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