[PPRAANet] PPRAA helped save my life WV7T

[Timothy Butcher]

Glad you are still progressing Mike.  It was good to see you stand on your
own at Megafest.  My life is so hectic right now, I am glad I took yhe time
to go.
Keep up the fight.

Tim
KE0TWB

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 11:28 wv7t--- via PPRAANet <ppraanet at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Today is theone year anniversary since I fell on to the sidewalk and
> messed myself up goodDecember 16, 2021. I had no idea how bad I was
> injured. I broken 8 ribs, puncturedlung and spleen (removed later), had to
> have right hip replaced, messed up myinternal organs which I still have to
> deal with. After I came out of sedation Iinventoried my situation. It was
> so bad I asked the nurses 3 times and Rhodaonce to kill me, and I meant it.
> I died twice in surgery and was not expectedto survive the night. Rhoda
> could have pulled the plug on me but didn’t. Ireally put a burden on her.
> The 6 weeks in the ICU were horrifying. I could notmove, speak, eat or
> drink. This is why I asked to be killed. I could not sleep,I was deeply
> depressed. Rhoda could visit and did. She tried to cheer me up butthat was
> an uphill battle. It cost the government $995,000 for my 6 week stayin the
> ICU. I am truly the Million Dollar Man.
> I give autographs for free.
>
>
> After theICU I was transferred to Parkmoor Village rehabilitation center.
> I arrived inFebruary 2021. I was angry for the first month. Again I could
> not move, eat,drink, or talk. The not being able to talk was the worst; I
> could not tell thenurses what was happening to me. The physical therapist
> said he would get me towalk out of the center….I called him a liar but in 3
> months later with a walkerI walked to the car I went home.
>  So many miracles happened to me there, thingsI could not rationalize.
> They used a lift to get me in to the wheelchair so I could movearound the
> building. One day I went to my room and worked at getting out of mybed, get
> in to my wheelchair, and actually did it! I was able to get from
> thewheelchair back into bed. I sat stunned.
>  I felt a power in my room that I hadnever felt such a presence before.
> For five days, one accomplishment afteranother. My breathing improved so
> much they took me off the ventilator and Icould breathe on my own. It is
> fun watching food commercials while you are ontube feeding. Finally they
> took out the tracheostomy tube, now I could eat anddrink. Oh the joy of
> drinking and eating.
>
>
> All this isgood but I was still depressed and not very hopeful. Rhoda
> brought in a laptop andI sent an e-mail to PPRAA reflector asking for
> visitors, Rhoda had days shecould not visit. And the club responded with
> many folks stopping by andbringing “contraband goodies.” This really perked
> me up. People brought Sodas,cookies, many things that made the days more
> endurable. It is to the hams whostarted helping me in rehab and when I
> returned home I owe so much. Jim BishopKDØKQL and Dave Molter ADØQD were
> dedicated to getting my butt back home. Jimtaught me and Rhoda how to text,
> we could leave messages day or night. Dave gotme a fishing vest I call a
> Man Purse to take all the stuff I needed with mewhen I was out of my room.
> Phillip KFØDX was the engineer of the group. The daybefore my fall we had
> that tremendous wind and a large limb came down on mylarge workshop and
> broke the skylight. Phillip made a cover over the brokenskylight which has
> kept the weather out of the workshop for a year now andlooks to last for a
> long time to come.
>  I am much better now but nowhere nearwhat I was, but I am thankful to be
> walking, driving, talking, eating, and drinking.Still a long process to go
> but I know I will get better. Many things I cannot do but Ilook for the
> things I can do and ways to do what I did before in a differentway.
>
> A BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED MEIN REHAB AND AT HOME!
>
> I owe muchof my progress to the hams of the PPRAA.
>
>
> Mike andRhoda Anderson
>
>
> WV7T   KB2BZY
>
>
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