Not really annoyed, just wanted to let my old friends to know.
On 11/11/20 I had emergency surgery to fix a broken neck that my surgeon thinks happened 10 or so years ago, because as he put it, it was a question of not if, but when I would be paralyzed. I just thought my neck hurt,... really!
Around the last of June/ first of July I had been experiencing a loss of muscular control that made me walk like I was drunk all the time, and I was falling quite regularly. Not to mention shaking of my hands, "electric" shockwaves down my arms and legs and stuff like that. My wife and daughter finally convinced me to go to a doctor, but because I am a stubborn ass it was almost too late. A 45 minute surgery turned into 2 and 1/2 hours because of the damage.
Anyways, I will never get back to normal because the c-5 vertebrae that they removed (and now replaced with screws and bits of titanium) had cut into my spinal cord and that just doesn't heal, so pain and shaky is the new normal for me. (thank goodness for Oxy's.)
The down-side is, it makes modeling and many other basic things like putting on socks, cooking, walking, peeing, having marital relations, and such, difficult. I have to walk with a cane now also.
The up-side is I can throw things at people in restaurants because of the shaky/ jerky movements, smack small children or annoying little dogs with my cane, and I can do a really good Kathern Hepburn impersonation now, think of the movie "On Golden Pond"... "The loons, Norman, the loons!"
Life is all what you make of it. I may check in from time to time, but for now, Good-bye, thank you all, and happy modeling!
