If you were wondering after the last post...I stayed another night. The amazing thing is how much of a difference that one night of rest made! When the physio walked in the mext morning, I was able to do some more of the exercises than the day before. I was also able to walk all the way from the bed to the bathroom, where I wasn't even able to walk one step before.
Thereza came to fetch me at hospital at about 10:30 on Friday morning, dropped me off at home and then went back to work after she'd helped me get settled into my favourite chair in the lounge. I stuck it out for about an hour before the pain of travel got to me and I took two of the tablets the Doc had given me for pain. About 3 hours later, when Thereza an the kids got home, I was just about ready to bring the flight in to land...
Man, those tablets are strong!! I've also been having the weirdest of dreams the last couple of nights! Fortunately I can't always remember the detail of the dreams. All I can remember is they were weird! I also know it's got nothing to do with the movies I've been watching lately, because I haven't really been watching any movies lately. Must be the pain tablets taking me to strange places, who knows?
Now, off the medical and self-pity subject onto something completely different...
This weekend, one of the Radio Stations, Jacaranda 94.2FM, is having a whole weekend of flashbacks to the 80's. They're playing ONLY music from the 80's and asking people to reminisce about the times they had...if they were born by then, of course. I finished school in 1982, so I have quite a number of memories from those years and it is amazing how many of the things which you thought were long forgotten, can be brought back by just listening to a song!
Thereza and I were wondering about our music choices back then, because some of the songs sound so lame today, but in the day they were these serious hits and everyone had to have them. Sometimes you also pick up on the words of the songs and you find out that the song you used to have such fond memories of is actually just plain weird!
Yet...the memories cannot be denied and won't be suppressed. If someone is struggling to remember something from days gone by, just try playing them a song that you know would have meant something to them at the time and you may just be surprised at the memories that come flooding forth...
My wife and I learnt a lot about eachother that way...as did our kids, to be honest. Some of the things the kids learnt freaked them out, of course, but we actually enjoyed freaking them out by being able to show them we also had a good time and weren't always these strict, responsible people they know as their parents. Sometimes they listen to the stories and things also start making more sense about their parents. As a matter of fact, my kids sometimes see the light and start liking some of the songs themselves.
They then become instant hits at school when they play them to their friends. Shows you...some songs are just meant to be played at regular intervals...like about once every 20 years! :-)
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