PAIN-STABBED PIGGIES
Up at this hour to foil
Pain with aromatic oil…
In between piggies
Sharp ones and biggies,
Throbbing but not from toil.
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Putting it on in the dark,
I feel it drip down to park…
On the other leg,
I sure would beg
It to stay where put, though in the dark.
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As pain slowly fades away
Took insulin early today…
At four AM
I’ll say an amen
If this pain goes away!
–Jonathan Caswell
NOT TOEING THE LINE
Start of his six month woe
Was damage neglecting Big Toe…
Though not twenty-three,
He foolishly
Went without socks to and fro.
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His sense of reality muddy,
Went around with a soaked sock bloody…
Leaving red dots
In many spots,
His wife thought he was nutty!
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Distracted by a catheter bout,
His mind shut the bloody foot out…
Thus it’s forgotten
Till it went rotten,
He kept on pushing it out.
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The infection bothered both legs,
He was walking on broken eggs…
Made of glass
Till it came to pass
That his legs cut out and he crumpled to the floor–useless legs!
–Jonathan Caswell
A NEW SERIES!
A bucket list author assured
Himself that his work endured…
Did awful in sales
But he prevails
By putting pieces out as lures!
–Jonathan Caswell
I had me a book manuscript nearly ( ? ) completed…and suddenly decided not to publish, at least not at that publisher, as nice as the new staff . Maybe I will send it to them but not just now.
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ON THE RECEIVING END,
by Jonathan Caswell
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SO…on this blog, BY THE MIGHTY MUMFORD and my other blog, THE MARVELOUS MUMFORD–and maybe some teasers at OUR POETRY CORNER–I’ll be posting poetry from the alleged book until I figure out where and how to formally publish it–if at all. 🙂
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THE BOOK…is about my recent experience over the last six months or so, damaging, ignoring, losing two toes on my right foot by amputation, rehab. and recovery. The basic premise–with other observations added–is to look at how difficult doctors, caretakers and such like me ( ! ) make such terrible patients, when it’s our turn to be cared for!
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Other bloggers use some titles repeatedly as categories. Each of mine here are what I plan to use in the book, which is, as you know, semi-autobiographical. These subtitles will be (in this series):
READY…AIM…FIRE!
(Who makes poor patients and maybe why?)
THE HEALERS
(Nurses, therapist, aides from hospital, rehabilitation and home care I’ve known)
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REHAB RUMINATIONS
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
(Various related issues of interest)
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THE END OF THE MATTER?
BY HIS FINGERNAILS
(If he has any left.)
His long ordeal seems done,
The battle with amputation almost won…
But occurence
Of ending insurance,
Worries his future to come.
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Received a continuance letter
Which helped him feel somewhat better…
Answers come slow
By snail-mail you know,
But his social worker–he’s glad to have met her.
–Jonathan Caswell
ROLE REVERSALS–NO PROBLEM!
Caretaker of his wife, he was
Until amputation thus…
Found care of him
Under her whim,
His ego matured for the cause.
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Their life in Christ was in being,
Through His love seeing…
Encouraging souls
Ultimate goals,
Whom they were was in Him succeeding.
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Success not a matter of role,
But God’s encouraging the whole…
Definition by deed
It was Christ’s to succeed,
While His children with Him are clothed.
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Working this through mortal frames
Is but one of Spiritual aims…
To work His will
Whether healthy or ill,
In Godly mercy and love Christ came.
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Who thus the greater be,
But Christ, Who lives in me…
We are man and wife,
Ransomed for life–
Father God as Daddy!
–Jonathan Caswell
PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS
The doctor removed the bone chip
Whose blood made the nurse flip…
He was blamed
For the quantity of same,
Reputation has that strong a grip!
–Jonathan Caswell
DOCTOR SAYS…
Doc said left to open air,
The wound would dry and repair…
Soaking does well
To sweeten the smell,
For shoes–soon a regular pair!
–Jonathan Caswell
CLOSE QUARTERS
This long-term staying at home
Husband-wife relations groan…
Comment brings strife
Reconciled with the wife,
Each have their own painful moan.
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Conflict resolution takes place
When living close–face-to-face–
Thank God for prayer
Allowing fresh air
And necessary private space!
–Jonathan Caswell
MARATHON MAN
He’s gone and lost another toe,
Which lengthens his world of woe…
Sitting quite still
Takes much will,
There are things to be done, ya know!
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Months of one foot elevated
Are extended by another amputated…
The older wound stitched,
No longer bewitched
By evening nurses anticipated.
(nurses coming only once-a-day now)
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Determined to not fool around,
He wants to work again sound…
He’ll do what it takes
To avoid sugar cakes
And keep his blood sugar down!
–Jonathan Caswell
IT’S HOMEBOUND FOR ME!
I heard the cute young nurse say,
If I wanted the V.N.A.*…
Couldn’t drive my car
Or go very far–
She caught in the act, anyway.
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She warned that the V.N.A.*
Legally could not stay…
If from hence
There was evidence,
Homebound status had gone away!
–Jonathan Caswell
*the local Visiting Nurse Association…doing home visits for (my) medical care….wound care and bandaging my foot, for example.
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