One more thing...

At PorkyDog Reunion, there were a couple of surprising conversations...
Pat & Sharon, from the ranch, had been to see me at Rehab Facility.. and called several times.

Pat told me he’d given me “maybe a 10% chance of getting up and going again..”..  He & Sharon didn’t expect me to be walking or getting around...  

Later I mentioned that conversation to Walt, another PD.. who had also visited several times during rehab.  Walt agreed.. 



When I think back to those days in rehab maybe it wasn’t predictable that I’d get mobile again...  Between first and second surgery, I was in huge pain.. surgical pain & sciatic pain.  I took Oxi or Tramadal or other pain killers before PT so I could bear the pain.. then went immediately back to bed.  When the head therapist said I might never walk again, I cried for a weekend...then channeled sister Margie & nephew Andy and others - that I didn’t have to be a statistic.. that I could commit to walking again.

Inspiration came from many...  Mary turned me on to Joe Pinella, who was a quadriplegic after an accident, yet learned to walk again.  There was Chuck who lost his leg.  There were so many others.. including y’all who called & visited & wrote, cheering me on...

i don’t think I ever questioned getting back on my feet.. but there were times I did not want to live w the pain..

Anyway, I’m extremely grateful to be doing as well as I am.. and asking for y’all to join my visualizations & intentions & commitment to get my leg completely healed..  and to shed another 50-75 pounds...

Thanks!
G❤️