Where is everyone #5

Yeah, I've tried 3 times to get away from it, longest I have been out of the truck is 3 years, have tried just about every way of driving to from food service, to dirt, local stuff. Always end up back on open deck and it's where I started and about the only thing I am even close to happy doing. For me I don't know what it is, I just tell people I haven't decided what I want to do when I grow up, seems like I am just happier in the truck by myself and might never grow up.

 

Sorry to hear about your mom, always makes it really hard with aging parents.

 

It definitely could have been worse. She's pretty much lost vision in one eye, left arm is basically uncontrollable, same with left leg at this point.

 

Nice place and people. On their North location it's full of non English speaking drivers. They have a neat clean facility. Probably the nicest restrooms at a warehouses I have ever experienced. Yet in broad daylight last week, a driver got thrown out for taking a dump in the parking lot. He no understand. Security guy said he didn't wipe. Pulled up pants and got in truck.

 

You have come along way my friend.

 

Classy...

 

And a nice one too... Looking fwd to a pic with trailer and swinging out to the road......

 

Succint summation, or whatever that expresses... I heard it once..

 

Steady there sailor... There is deep water on both sides.... Keep centered, it will come.

 

If she still has some control, and is physically able, therapy now can do wonders.
A woman doctor sat in front of me on a stool and asked: Mr. Johnson, what is your goal here . I said: Well, to get well and go home, how long is it gonna take?
She said; " If you will do as we say, I may not bring you all the way back, but I will bring you as far as you can be brought."

That was in 2013, I had stroked out R side, Had to be lifted up, wrestled and dressed and to therapy. 8 to 12, wheelchair to lunch (tube fed), 1 to 4 back in therapy. Here they had one person work you on one thing for 45 min, then another doing something else, etc all the day.
I left 2 months later walking on a simple walker, but COULD NOT SWALLOW.
Another month at home with detailed 2 a week I was able to swallow a shard of ice. A shard, so it you can't swallow, it will melt and not choke.

So all that: It is like our Baptist saying on "Getting Saved".. All you need is a little "Want Too." If you can move, and do what they say/show/demand,you can recover. Each will vary... But life varies every day.