Amazing. I can’t underestimate what a long difficult journey you have been on since the accident. How hard you must have worked to be at this moment of your recovery. You have taken nothing and turned it into a beautiful now. Thank you for your inspiration.
Life as combat - I'm "reading" (listening to) Evil Hours by David Morris about PTSD - but not just combat trauma. In addition to his own history, he tells the history of PTSD. It's by a journalist who was in Iraq, riding in an armored vehicle when his driver turned to him and asked "Sir, have you ever been blown up?" - it turns out many of these soldiers were - and later, so was the author - which changed his life - They were not "hit by a truck," nor did the author lose his cognitive faculties to the extent you did- but the impact on his "wiring" was profound... tragic...weirdly relatable and yet otherworldly. Thank you, Judith Hannah Weiss, for taking me *inside* the experience with such powrful linguistic insight. And thank you for the long, slow, steady sweet trickle of your redemptive arc, flowing ever so gently uphill toward reconciling your self with your tragedy.
Thank you Judith Hannah Weiss for these remarks characterizing your state of mind/existence after getting run over. I might have felt completely lost, no longer existing, and unable to fashion a new sense of self.
Of course that’s just what you did! And share with your readers almost daily. I’m grateful to have met you and to now continue learning who you are. I’m reminded of lyrics from The King and I:
“Getting to know you
Getting to know all about you”
I hope, Judith Hannah Weiss, that my saying that isn’t rude or presumptuous. We both know I’m not “getting to know all about you.” Yet I’m glad we met here on the Stack.
It was a Code 4 emergency, which means my life was threatened. Then it wasn’t my life.
Amazing. I can’t underestimate what a long difficult journey you have been on since the accident. How hard you must have worked to be at this moment of your recovery. You have taken nothing and turned it into a beautiful now. Thank you for your inspiration.
Thank you for your words. Deep bow.
Life as combat - I'm "reading" (listening to) Evil Hours by David Morris about PTSD - but not just combat trauma. In addition to his own history, he tells the history of PTSD. It's by a journalist who was in Iraq, riding in an armored vehicle when his driver turned to him and asked "Sir, have you ever been blown up?" - it turns out many of these soldiers were - and later, so was the author - which changed his life - They were not "hit by a truck," nor did the author lose his cognitive faculties to the extent you did- but the impact on his "wiring" was profound... tragic...weirdly relatable and yet otherworldly. Thank you, Judith Hannah Weiss, for taking me *inside* the experience with such powrful linguistic insight. And thank you for the long, slow, steady sweet trickle of your redemptive arc, flowing ever so gently uphill toward reconciling your self with your tragedy.
I am honored by your words. And I will look for that book as well. Thank you. Deep bow.
Thank you for restacking my work. Deep bow.
I regret that but thank you for telling me.
If I had been run over, I would not be here.
I was not run over. I was alone In the passenger seat of a parked car. The car was crushed.
J!❤️🗽
I must admit, I had to read it at least three times before I fully understood the piece
Beautiful!
Thank you.
Glsd you made it thru
Thank you Judith Hannah Weiss for these remarks characterizing your state of mind/existence after getting run over. I might have felt completely lost, no longer existing, and unable to fashion a new sense of self.
Of course that’s just what you did! And share with your readers almost daily. I’m grateful to have met you and to now continue learning who you are. I’m reminded of lyrics from The King and I:
“Getting to know you
Getting to know all about you”
I hope, Judith Hannah Weiss, that my saying that isn’t rude or presumptuous. We both know I’m not “getting to know all about you.” Yet I’m glad we met here on the Stack.