[PPRAANet] PPRAA helped save my life WV7T

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Jim

> On Dec 16, 2022, at 18:50, Timothy Butcher <timothywbutcher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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