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After my knee injury, my quad seems to have gone to sleep. I realized this earlier when I was looking at my slumped in muscle there and saggy skin where the muscle used to be. I also realized that this is what was causing my gait to be awkward – I have been using my hip flexors to heave my leg forward rather than lifting with the quad muscle.… read more “Reactivating My Quad”

Copyrights and patents should be reduced to a maximum of 7 years and then opened up for anyone to use it. Society will advance far more quickly and good business owners will be able to bring competition and lower prices to everyone.

Jimmy visited and showed Laurel and I the HBO series called “Veep” and we have really been enjoying it and watching an episode or two each night! Really funny show with great insult humor and awkward situation humor.

 

I am starting to more rapidly recover from my rollerblading injury.

I had a good long walk with my crutches yesterday around my neighborhood with Laurel and Jimmy. I moved pretty slowly though.

I have a bandage wrapped around my knee that I am not supposed to take off till my doctors appointment next Monday. It feels pretty gross – like it is sticking to the wound sometimes or carrying liquid.… read more “My Injury Recovery”

Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 9:30 am: My friend Ryan and I went rollerblading together near downtown Long Beach. I usually wear knee pads, elbow pads, wrist pads, and a helmet. I had forgotten a knee pad at home though, so I made the dangerous decision to wear only my wrist guards and helmet.

We parked near 6th and Magnolia and found our way over to the paved bike trail along the LA river that connects down to ocean front bike path.… read more “Rollerblading Injury + Hospital Recovery”

I have spent a lot of time while injured watching police body camera videos on YouTube. Generally it seems that police are very conscientious even of the criminals they deal with and show far more restraint than I would when under threat. They do all of this for very little thanks and a lot of hatred from the communities they protect.… read more “Police Are Heroes”

Our health insurance system is built to maximize the amount of money it takes from us. I have been in the hospital for awhile and there is no way for me to negotiate with the hospital to help control costs. My insurance just pays everything by default. I have to pay extremely high insurance premiums because of this.… read more “Healthcare Insurance -A Terrible System”

Playoffs are here. Live or die. For me, there’s far higher stakes than in the NBA Finals. I’m about to go into surgery at 11:30 a.m. that will try to clean out my wound from rollerblading. The goal is to stop the infection that has been steadily marching up my thigh and defeating every antibiotic tried.… read more “Playoffs”