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Sunday, November 27, 2016

WALKING AGAIN


Spending all my waking hours in my desolate solitude, I’ve created arithmetic equalization that defines my frustrated status of constant frustration and never-ending hope, that’s W = W or that by learning to walk again I can return to work again, and on the walking concept I put here a video of myself training in a gym few years ago with specialists in physical therapy dedicated to TBI victims that while they were all good and experienced couldn’t make me walk again.
It turns out (see links) that for TBI victims balance and muscles tone is a very common issue and while now I’m sure that I no longer have issues with my balance, I lost tone not only in the muscles of my leg, but the muscles in the back that help to sustain the erected posture when walking and therefore help the movement forward of the leg.
In addition there’s the recent fall with the fracture of my left femur that resulted in a complex surgery (52 stitches) that put steel bar along the entire femur that’s attached to my back with 3 steel screws 6 inches long at least.
I must admit that when I saw the X-rays of my left leg I was very impressed and I immediately thought to the alarm of metal detectors people must walk through in airport.
However, where I’m living now I’ve been threatened that if I ever fall again I’m going to have 3 days to leave the place, so whenever I want/need to transfer from the wheelchair anywhere else I must call someone to look and eventually help me in my transfer.
Regardless of all of this I’ve been training to rebuild my leg and back muscles with 2 physical therapists who come to my room twice a week and taught me some exercises to do by myself when they aren’t with me.
My goal is not only to get back to working again, but to bring my princess daughter G. to Verona next summer to meet the Italian side of her family and become very fluent in Italian.
When we’ll be back here I’m planning to get back to work by September and show that TBI recovery is yet something else that can’t be called impossible, as I’ve been saying for decades the impossible doesn’t exist, it’s just a matter  of attitude and willingness to work hard.
Anyway, a small PayPal donation would be immensely helpful and very much appreciated.



  1. http://www.msktc.org/tbi/factsheets/Balance-Problems-After-Traumatic-Brain-Injury
  2. https://www.headway.org.uk/about-brain-injury/individuals/effects-of-brain-injury/physical-effects/

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