I will be transferred to a long-term transitional care facility from
Fairview Riverside Hospital where I have been for 11 days/daze.
I am now at The Masonic Home in Bloomington.
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My hip is deteriorating FAST
and
I am being kept still.
I feel like an ancient Grecian sculpture whose marble hip has cracked
while in a traveling exhibition.
I am being kept still by being laid into a box full of sawdust.
The local museum director is awaiting the arrival
of the Chief Conservator of the British Museum
for analysis and an integrated, comprehensive treatment plan
on how to make repairs.
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The image below tells the truth.
There is a beauty to it: an Aegean Sea coral reef found as you scuba dive.
Think of the luminous colors, the temperature of the sea, and your body
moving through, flutter kicking, with royal blue fins.
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TBC
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The amazing grace and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mark Heller,
and
Physician’s Assistant Jeff Ballard
totally reconstructed my right knee on 27 September 2012, has
passed the baton/the Excalibur/the Orthopedic roaring blue flame torch
to
Dr. Robert Trousdale to enter the hip that received
a THR on 26 May 1999 by Dr. Rodney H. Peterson.
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#1.) My body’s unique algebra separates the textbook surgeons
from the keen skills of poetic, adventurous, innovative surgical geniuses
whose synapses are complex holograms/haikus of diverse/multiple fields
of unfolding knowledge.
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There is a spectrum of surgeons:
from the exhausting check off the boxes job position
to
the investigative, rejuvenating, passionate calling.
Technician to artist.
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My selected and welcomed surgeons are charitable explorers
whose mind and skills widen and deepen with each surgery
as they research, brain storm and prepare for
and then
execute/perform/improvise with both integrity and kind humanity.
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The pre-op treatment research, planning/composing
and
the OR’s planned and improvised performances
are groundbreaking + breathtaking
jam sessions.
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A reckless, yet, inspired, undisciplined rebels are not my Fred Astaires.
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Dr. Mark B. Coventry was my touchstone of artist/surgeon genius
and
he was my template of amazing grace humanity.
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With the unique algebra of my body’s musculoskeletal system,
I carefully filter and, then select my dance card partner/surgeons by:
their poetic, adventurous and keen intelligence,
their improvisational skills,
their creative courage to envision a blueprint, a map, of a wilderness of a place
that they have had no previous training to enter with all of its uncertainty and risk,
their leadership capacity to work collaboratively
their uncanny ability to call out the genius within each of their colleagues with the
non-hierarchical vehicle of a roundtable;
their honesty;
their integrity
and
their humanity.
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On 18 August 2014,
while Ferguson burned,
I fell and slammed directly upon my right hip made fragile by osteolysis,
and
Dr. Heller is paying his respects to his genius peers who preceded him
by keeping me still -awaiting Dr. Trousdale’s entrance into my wilderness.
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Dr. Trousdale will be given only a compass and the past maps
constructed by his predecessors.
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Dr. Robert Trousdale aka Chief Consevator of the British Museum
http://www.mayoclinic.org/biographies/trousdale-robert-t-m-d/bio-20054172
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Dr. Mark Heller
http://www.tcomn.com/Home/FindaPhysician/Physicians/MarkAHellerMD.aspx
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Dr. Rod H. Peterson
https://www.itriagehealth.com/doctor/dr-rodney-h-peterson-md-144844/background
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Dr. Mark B Coventry
“I think that we don’t have many people like him today,” Chao said.
“We are so goal oriented and do not treat medicine, surgery, and patient care with
integrity, charity and humanity.
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Above: Christine Hartman’s offering of a glorious + simple bouquet was received by me
with GR8 joy at this time of physical vulnerability and uncertainty.
She was then flying to Brazil for Holly Hunt on business,
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CATHERINE L. JOHNSON 