Disability in a Virus Pandemic.

         Everyone likes to take time off from work just to be able rest and recharge the battery that keeps us going.  Spending time with family or friends enjoying each others company is always a good thing.  Cause you get to forget about all the stress from work and just daily issues like dealing with traffic.  Just to do it all over again the next day, all week long. 


        We all are like robots in this pattern of life until we find an escape from reality.  Whether we plan a day off or vacation of some sort, cause we are tire of being in a rut of some sort.  We even toy with the idea of going out on disability just to take the time off, but thinking about it and having it actually happen are two very different things.  Basically cause it isn't any fun being hurt or ill no matter how much you need time off. 

            Being off on disability is bad enough but add to that a virus threat of major proportions.  Having to take time off from work cause you got injured or were sick enough that your not able to go to work.  Even that isn't so bad cause you still are able to get around if only just for a little while, but what we are now going through is far worse.  And not knowing when it will come to and end or will it be the end of  you. 

         I'm not even sure how I actually feel about this cause on the one side I am home safe away from the daily threat, but then again I am also trapped or at least limited to what I can do while being off.  I'm not the type to feel trapped on a normal basis, but with all that is going on I'm really feeling it like everyone else is.  

         Right now we are living in a world where people are either overacting of just living in fear of all the deaths caused by this virus.  Some are scared to venture out and some are dying of being cooped up, and until this all blows over I guess I am stuck here waiting to recover and go back to work.  Hoping that when that day happens it will be after this starting to dissipate.  I know it will be a long time before we return to normal and that day can't come too soon in my book. 

         As I look back the things I miss the most are the days spent with my daughter fooling around doing are shopping thing, but also all the days better known as free play days where it usually evolves dining out at a nice place then back to her house for another roaring game of Sorry which we so love doing.  I really long for those days to return soon, cause these once a week Target runs are fun but not the same.

        However long this takes to finally be over and life returns to as we once knew it, there is the underlying fact.  This virus took away all what we so longed for which is our personal freedom to be ourselves unencumbered with all of these restrictions that we now have to face.  So until that day I wish all the best hoping not to lose any love ones in the process and strengthen our own resolve knowing that we survived a very dark time in our lives.    
       
         

  


                             

Break in Action

     Well the year started out as normal as can be, but that is where it all went wrong.  Two months into the year and I had been waiting for my tax forms to finally get here. usually I have already gotten my checks back by now.  Unfortunately  for some unknown reason things were a little detained.  So finally at the end of February I finally made it in to get the whole tax thing done and sit back and wait, providing there was a return.  

     Suddenly my world was turned upside down.  I was happy with with the results and thinking about the trip home from the new location of my tax man.  Then it came all tumbling down, literally as I lost my footing and fell to the ground and broke my upper arm.  I wouldn't find out how bad until I got to the hospital.   My arm was broken so severe that I had to have a plate and screws put in to secure the bones.  

     So after the surgery and 4 day stay at the hospital I was shipped out to a nursing home facility to be looked after for the 8 days.  I have to say my hospital stay was good as usual,  the food and I had decent care while I was there.  The nursing home was a little bit new to me, but I was taken good care of and the staff was pretty good which made my stay there very pleasant.  But all things have to come to an end and I was sent home to start my home rehabilitation.

      Time has crept by through all of this and I can't believe that I am going on 2 months since I broke my arm.  Already receiving my disability money well at least the first amount that is still waiting for next deposit to show up.  All that aside I am here at home doing my exercises for my physical therapy. at least until I actually go in to the office.  


      So for now I am just waiting to find out if I will be able to get an extension for more time off or if by some chance he will release me to go back to work.  To be honest right now I'm rooting for the extension, cause I am nowhere near ready to return to work.  Especially at a time when we are all being quarantined due to this Corona-virus.  So here I sit at home waiting patiently to see what will happen next for me.