Hopefully, a lot of regular readers have become familiar with Bill Peace’s Bad Cripple Blog. I think I’ve excerpted, reacted to or just plain pointed to his blog more than anyone else’s – check out this link for the NDY posts in which he’s been featured in some way.
Bill’s blog went silent for almost two weeks, which is unusual. On Wednesday, he announced that he’s in the hospital with a major health problem – a pressure sore he describes as a “hole in his hip.” The next few months will be tough ones for Bill – physically and financially for sure. My own experience of long hospital stays (my longest was about 6 weeks when I was ten years old) is that they kind of shrink your psyche (or at least that’s how I think of it). Staying in the same room for days and weeks with only the medical staff – for me, anyway – shrinks my energy, my ability to assert myself, and other essential survival traits that aren’t valued or nurtured in a hospital setting.
Bill says he plans on writing daily (I hope he manages to come close to that), chronicling his road to recovery, health and home.
Check out, in order:
And then check back on a regular basis at Bad Cripple.
I offer two excellent reasons for reading his blog – now more than ever.
First, anything Bill Peace writes is worth reading.
Second, I’m sure he’ll enjoy seeing people coming and reading the blog – especially if you leave comments. –Stephen Drake