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You get what you have settled for. You decide where you end up. When I got out of the hospital, having spent seven weeks in bed, I had no muscles to speak of. My muscles had lost all of their strength. It was early last year that a hospital stay erased all of the strength out of all of my muscles. What happened after that was all on me. The hospital staff did their best to get me ready. But there was no way that I could understand just how weak I was. Sure, I was taking daily walks around the hospital. But, once I got home, I found out just how deep the loss of strength had hit me. I went to go up a short flight of stairs. It felt like my body was made out of bags of cement. It was very difficult for me to try…

Are You stuck at the Stop sign? When will you be ready to go … again? Have you ever had your life turned on its head? Where your life was turned upside down by some unexpected event? Perhaps you had someone close to you die unexpectedly. Or a tornado or such destroyed your home. But then, there is a type of trauma that can set in, when we have a very difficult circumstance to endure. My father comes to mind. To fight in a war had scarred him very deeply. And my cousin comes to mind as well. He was falsely accused of a crime, and spent over a year in a foreign jail as a foreigner. Only to be released and cleared of all charges. I know these examples cover a broad range of circumstances, but they all can metaphorically paralyze us to some degree. Where we have stopped…