Brought my daughter to physical therapy appointment
She is filling out three long pages of paper work – front and back
I am listening to other people’s conversations
Learning about strangers keeps me in writing material
My ears are as high as an alert rabbit as I listen to others
I keep my head down, pretending I am not writing down their words.
Categories:
physical therapy, writing,
Form: Free verse
AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY MANY CHANGES OCCUR FOR ME IT WAS COPING WITH ANXIETY VERTIGO ATTACK WHERE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE ALWAYS ON A LEDGE FINALLY THE GROUND COMES UP TO MEET YOU THERE I WAS STANDING ON TOP OF A FLIGHT OF STAIRS RECOVERING FROM MY INJURIES FROM THE CAR CRASH PREPARING MYSELF FOR MASS SINGING IN THE CHIOR WHEN THIS OVERWHELMING FEELING DIZZY FRIGHTENING I FELT MYSELF FALLING I TRIED TO GRAB THE RAIL THERE WAS NO RAIL I FELL FROM THE TOP OF THE STAIR CASE TO THE CONCRETE GROUND FRACTURING HIP PELVIS LAYING THERE WITH INTERNAL BLEEDING PHYSICAL THERAPY CHIROPRACTIC CARE ORTHOPEDIC CARE NOW THE BONES ARE DEFORMED SEVERE PAIN AND SUFFERING I'M BLESSED MY HUSBAND TAKES GOOD CARE OF ME SURVIVING A CAR BOMB CRUSHED EYE SOCKET FRACTURED NASAL ARCH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY I EVEN INJURED MY HIP FRACTURED HAND I TWO STROKES LEARNING TO WALK AGAIN I NEVER DREAMED I'D BECOME CRIPPLED JUST WAKE UP AND CAN'T MOVE MY LEGS UNABLE TO WALK UNABLE TO MOVE MY LEGS MY LOWER BODY GAVE OUT SEVERE ONGOING PAIN AND SUFFERING RECEIVING CARE SICKNESS AND HEALTH ANTHONY AND YOLANDA CATHOLIC WAR VETERANS
Categories:
physical therapy, allah,
Form: Naat
Therapist
releases
patient
Categories:
physical therapy, health,
Form: Senryu
I never knew angst to be so devilish a thing
Taking me from a million clean years,
To ABC house of booze, because,
My blood money was abused by him
Wrecking the Kia Sportage I was strapped in
A passenger, pained to point of surgeries.
And on a rainy morning he swore resenting
Driving me to physical therapy,
And before the settlement, made his request:
"...Do my bathroom floor like yours."
And half of what I got was to be his
He carved such rules I broke in time
And kept secret what figures were mine.
But, lo and behold I sat pondering, counting pennies
And the devil drove me to think...
I should drink to that
All I got, and shared, and fail to stash.
Who knew Canadian whiskey would whisk me to detox?
And I, a recovering addict/alcoholic chose house of God
In AA I'd sit with alcoholics sharing what they drank,
How, when, where.
I'd rather say never again.
*
Categories:
physical therapy, abuse, addiction, change, courage,
Form: Bio
Golden Rooster
passes physical therapy
thanks to taiji
Categories:
physical therapy, age, sports,
Form: Senryu
Reach Out
In sailing the fastest tack is a broad reach,
Sails both billowing and bird's wings,
Wind pushing, lifting, hull raising to plane screech,
Physical Therapy gleams & tunefully sings,
By "Reaching Out" like leaping whales breach,
Heartbeat increasing, beads of sweat glistening,
Reaching a challenge does teach,
By contrast missing a beat stings,
Making the most in "Out Reach",
Bow waves sprout as navigating in rings,
Around the buoys we steer and find our niche,
Steering clear of "rue-ings" setting sail for "doings"!
Categories:
physical therapy, boat, endurance, health, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
In novels, love is the obstacle overturned by the ardent swain
In song, love is a grandiose solo in melodic chains
In poetry, love is fervent rhyme in syncopated refrain
In movies, love is a monologue in the rain
In real life, love is made of little things
Of scraping burnt crust off the grilled cheese
Of putting his favorite soda in the fridge, to be cold when he gets home
Of giving up the comfy chair to his aching back
Of putting ice in plastic bags to sooth the shocking jolts of pain in his spine
Of slipping his shoes on and off because he can not bend to do it
Of sleeping alone in the king-size bed upstairs because climbing steps is too excruciating for his weakened legs
Of driving him through rainy rush-hour traffic for his physical therapy
Of watching his face contort when he walks and knowing there are no words of comfort to abate his agony
Of smiling at his goofy jokes, just to have an instant of relief
Of linking fingers while waiting for what the doctor will say
Little things are the cushion
When the world comes down.
2/7/19
Categories:
physical therapy, caregiving, husband, pain, sick,
Form: I do not know?
Physical Therapy.
This has a meaning and a term.
It's such a *****.
I'm sure you're gonna regret it later?
Nah I'm sure I'll find a new way of living.
Coming to think of it,
I find the devil takes,
Jesus listens,
Buddha teaches,
Now it's time to watch the on.
Well time to lay down and watch movies.
If I can get just more.
Looks like the wind blows again.
As well as the cold wind blowing tears in my eyes.
These years have sure grown fast.
Might as well turn into another lover.
So a combo of all beers?
I just feel lonely in my arms.
Wow...I actually wrote a poem today?
I guess that's a cool thing.
Yeah?
So who wants me?!
Categories:
physical therapy, growing up, life, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
I'm changing my name to bee. I'm busy as a bee. Cooking meals, paying the bills and then there's the groceries. Floors to sweep, floors to mop and the laundry too. So much to get done, always on the run. I'm busy as a bee.
I'm busy as a bee. Doctors appointments and physical therapy. Wash the car and fill up with gas. Taking out the trash. Watching the clock, no time to stop. Gotta move fast.
I'm busy as a bee. Takes my mind off of me. Life's too short to sit in self pity, so if I'm feeling down I guess I best get up and get busy.
Categories:
physical therapy, care, cheer up, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Out in the thickets
Time stands alone
Limping around
Minute by minute
Not hearing a sound
But a melodic siren within
Off pitch and piercing
Hold back the pain
No longer
March on it screams
March on
Let the beast devour my flesh
And allow me to
March on
* How my body feels after stepping my physical therapy up a notch
Categories:
physical therapy, feelings, pain,
Form: Free verse
Help me
He won't wake up these weekends
I came back home
I help him get unsick
Mom runs her usual parade
Dad just watches TV and escapes
He wants to change
But can't make himself rearrange
Disk problems in the back
Ironically im schooled in physical therapy...
he doesnt want to listen to me
So time putters on indefinitely
Categories:
physical therapy, childhood, death,
Form: Free verse
Physical Therapy came in the door
To take him out in the wide hall to walk
He got to go places he hadn't been before
He saw folks that hadn't seen and to them talk
P.T. helped him get up so he wouldn't fall
Nurses came to help him take a shower
All obstacles placed against gray wall
Minutes upon minutes turned into hour
With just a normal old age human ear
We listened to noises in hall by day
If animal outside alerted by brey
Tightly enclosed in hospital room we couldn't hear
The situation sometimes made me feel
As if in this case I was simply third wheel
Categories:
physical therapy, animals, health, husband, life,
Form: Sonnet
Three hundred eleven across or over
Activity a coming_going before
Her surgery and after does she need more
Seeing nurses techs doctors in there flying
Several times when all this commotion wonder if dying
Then she slowly would emerge from her door
With physicial therapy taking her over
Not once in the whole ordeal did see crying
(woman across the hall when husband
was in the hospital..Her husband was
looking after her so he called nurses to
wait on her so he would not have to do it.
She was at physical therapy yesterday..)
Categories:
physical therapy, health
Form: Rhyme