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The quote "This has been a crushing blow to him. For someone who is extremely active, beyond the drum kit to the tennis courts and ping pong tables and swimming pools etc., to even think about the possibility of never having full use of you foot is astronomically depressing." stands out to me because it shows how hard life is for you and your family. It showed how your brother must have been strong facing against his disability. It also shows how much you care about your family and how you can even feel their pain. For you and your family to face this really shows how strong and close you guys are.
The quote "This has been a crushing blow to him. For someone who is extremely active, beyond the drum kit to the tennis courts and ping pong tables and swimming pools etc., to even think about the possibility of never having full use of you foot is astronomically depressing." stands out to me because it shows how hard life is for you and your family. It showed how your brother must have been strong facing against his disability. It also shows how much you care about your family and how you can even feel their pain. For you and your family to face this really shows how strong and close you guys are.
From Casey on HW27:
Evan,
I hope a solution is found for your brother's predicament! What a horrible situation...It's heart wrenching and horrifying how once humorous issues can quickly turn into future-hindering conflicts. I enjoyed your line, "Bangs on cans with conviction." The lyricism and alliteration made it stand out, and showed your brother's can-banging in a positive light.
I hope a solution is found for your brother's predicament! What a horrible situation...It's heart wrenching and horrifying how once humorous issues can quickly turn into future-hindering conflicts. I enjoyed your line, "Bangs on cans with conviction." The lyricism and alliteration made it stand out, and showed your brother's can-banging in a positive light.
From Eloise on HW27:
I believe this is great insight to an odd predicament. The harsh reality that health care is not the only solution, and many times with even all our medical knowladge simple maladies cause great harm. It is sad to hear this but he should be greatful that he at least has the opertunity to have someone tell him they don't know what to do verus... we dont know how to help you without you giving up some cash. I wish you would have exmplified with more lucidity and strength what the dominant social practices seen here are ? My favorite line was "t is extremely upsetting to him and everyone around him that the medical system has yet again continued to fail our family (in addition to the fact that they couldn't even identify MY problem when I went to the ER a short time ago)." I think it got to the center of the issues of how someones injury affected you and all around you. This could have been improved by expanding on a wider scale as aforementioned..
From Mom on HW27:
Well, having been a participant in the aftermath of this freak accident, spending the last couple of weeks accompanying Josh to specialists and through a battery of tests, I have seen, first-hand, the pluses and minuses of our medical system once again. However, I think you were a bit harsh in saying that it failed us again. Medicine is an art as well as a science and it is not always possible to correctly diagnose or treat our complex body systems. In fact, I felt that everyone bent over backwards to try to help.
I think the best part of your blog posting was your sympathy for your brother, your understanding of just what is at stake for his career and for him as an active person: "For someone who is extremely active, beyond the drum kit to the tennis courts and ping pong tables and swimming pools etc., to even think about the possibility of never having full use of your foot is astronomically depressing." I also thought it was a good connection (and sweet) that you thought to acknowledge that his relationship with dad was even closer than yours: "Keep in mind that he went through almost everything I did with my father, even moreso being that he was my brother's best friend and closest companion." That is a very honest and generous observation.
In the end, I am optimistic as you are that Josh will beat this, and I love how you showed him making proverbial lemonade out of lemons: "he... continues to write some kickass music in the meantime!" Happily, he has begun to tentatively walk in the last couple of days, powered by sheer will. In this determined way, you two are very much brothers, and very much the sons of your father (and mother).
I think the best part of your blog posting was your sympathy for your brother, your understanding of just what is at stake for his career and for him as an active person: "For someone who is extremely active, beyond the drum kit to the tennis courts and ping pong tables and swimming pools etc., to even think about the possibility of never having full use of your foot is astronomically depressing." I also thought it was a good connection (and sweet) that you thought to acknowledge that his relationship with dad was even closer than yours: "Keep in mind that he went through almost everything I did with my father, even moreso being that he was my brother's best friend and closest companion." That is a very honest and generous observation.
In the end, I am optimistic as you are that Josh will beat this, and I love how you showed him making proverbial lemonade out of lemons: "he... continues to write some kickass music in the meantime!" Happily, he has begun to tentatively walk in the last couple of days, powered by sheer will. In this determined way, you two are very much brothers, and very much the sons of your father (and mother).
Comment on Casey's HW27:
Casey,
Awesome post here. I see many parallels between your uncle and my father! They both thought they were invincible, did the most to avoid being in the hands of doctors and suffered for it. You are absolutely right about this 'invincibility complex' that we all share, and as for the best line, I have to agree with Eloise with
"I realized that such an attitude can be found in most people, whether revealed by an 11 year old boy jay walking, a high school freshman smoking cigarettes, a college student forgoing a condom, an obese middle aged woman watching television all day instead of going to the gym, or a diabetic man having a field day at Kentucky Fried Chicken."
Pretty much summed it all up there. We take death for granted and even laugh in its face often multiple times a day, little do we realize we will never truly obtain the "last laugh". Wonderful.
Keep it up!
Evan
p.s. I found one little typo you might want to edit... at least I think it's a typo? "Infects his life" at the end of the first P?
Awesome post here. I see many parallels between your uncle and my father! They both thought they were invincible, did the most to avoid being in the hands of doctors and suffered for it. You are absolutely right about this 'invincibility complex' that we all share, and as for the best line, I have to agree with Eloise with
"I realized that such an attitude can be found in most people, whether revealed by an 11 year old boy jay walking, a high school freshman smoking cigarettes, a college student forgoing a condom, an obese middle aged woman watching television all day instead of going to the gym, or a diabetic man having a field day at Kentucky Fried Chicken."
Pretty much summed it all up there. We take death for granted and even laugh in its face often multiple times a day, little do we realize we will never truly obtain the "last laugh". Wonderful.
Keep it up!
Evan
p.s. I found one little typo you might want to edit... at least I think it's a typo? "Infects his life" at the end of the first P?
Comment on Eloise's HW27:
Eloise,
My goodness what a visual and grueling post to read! I am not sure if you meant to write it this way but being a filmmaker I could really, REALLY visualize your tale and even hear your tone in narration. One of the greatest lines to me was
"The melody to her environment is the constant beep, beep, beep, beep, beeeep beeeep beeeeep of the thermometer. When she can sleep she seems the most content, but the parallel world it sends her to seems quite unappealing as well. It's as if all the energy that usually pours outward upon others is battling within her trying to kill the bacteria."
To be honest if I were writing a screenplay it would go something exactly like this! Lines like this actually drove me to think about how I would frame such an image to do it justice. As always I would do a quick read through (especially for such a long post) to look for simple spelling and grammar errors. However in this case I found such grammar errors delightful because it made me hear the narrating voice so much better!
Evan
My goodness what a visual and grueling post to read! I am not sure if you meant to write it this way but being a filmmaker I could really, REALLY visualize your tale and even hear your tone in narration. One of the greatest lines to me was
"The melody to her environment is the constant beep, beep, beep, beep, beeeep beeeep beeeeep of the thermometer. When she can sleep she seems the most content, but the parallel world it sends her to seems quite unappealing as well. It's as if all the energy that usually pours outward upon others is battling within her trying to kill the bacteria."
To be honest if I were writing a screenplay it would go something exactly like this! Lines like this actually drove me to think about how I would frame such an image to do it justice. As always I would do a quick read through (especially for such a long post) to look for simple spelling and grammar errors. However in this case I found such grammar errors delightful because it made me hear the narrating voice so much better!
Evan
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