Well now...

[Kurt Matthies]

Newton,

I am very sorry to hear of your misshap...I guess you could count your
blessings at this time and rejoice that you're still here to write about
this.

I wish you a speedy convalescence, and if it speeds your healing to think of
the legal battle to come, then so be it.


--kwgm
Kurt W.G. Matthies
www.mesainteractive.com
303-635-3007


-----Original Message-----
From: nhunt@jagat.com [mailto:nhunt@jagat.com]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 11:59 AM
To: Pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Well now...


Dear Friends,

I have done it again, gotten myself into a nice pickle.

Yesterday, Saturday, a little after 2:00 I was walking home,
hurrying because I needed to visit the boy's room, when a
car whipped around making a left hand turn and preceded to
break my left leg and bruise my tailbone and small of my
back.

I was taken to the hospital by our local volunteer EMS crew
and I want to tell you that a ride in a ambulance is to
fun.  I HATE not being able to see where I am going and have
no control over my body, strapped in and all.  Those neck
braces _work_, you can only see where you balls roll.

X-rays showed a crack in the bone behind the tibia (forget
the name right now).  They put a brace on my leg and told me
not to put any pressure one it.  Yeah right!

I have Fibromyalgia and have lost enough upper torso
strength that I can no longer lift my own weight to use
crutches easily so they gave me a walker.  I have a hard
time with that as well.

So here I am, bed bound, alone, with an occasional friend to
drop by and give me a few scraps of food and fetch and carry
for me.  Nothing to do but sleep, take drugs, read and play
with my laptop.  I don't have a phone line in here so
somehow I have to get to the office to send this and get the
rest of the messages.  Monday I will try to find a source of
a daily helping hand, I hope.  It will be about three or
four days before I can regain good control of my body to be
able to get around well enough to cook for myself,
hopefully.

So, this guy hits me, a little after 2:00 pm on a beautiful
day while I was in the cross walk and had the light with
me.  As far as I am concerned, no excuse and I think my
lawyer is likely to take a dim view of this behavior as
well.  And I am a blind man as well.  Wonder what my lawyer
will make of that?

I am so grateful I am alive and no more injured than I am
but this comes at a real inconvenient time.  Hmm, what
accident does?  I have to cancel my class tomorrow, cancel a
repair on Tuesday, not hang the ceiling fan, not work on the
piano, not paint the bedroom walls and not do other
interesting things.

I had real quick action because the police, fire and EMS
stations are just three blocks down the street from where I
was lying in the street telling the driver who asked, "Are
you ok?:  I said, "no I'm not"  he called 911 on his cell
phone since I could not find mine.

Six and a half hours later I am at home in bed with a
wonderful bowl of Minestrone my former wife brought with her
when she picked me up at the hospital.

They do not feed you in the ER and they wait forever before
giving you any pain medication.

Lesson, don't walk cross the street and don't go to the ER
if you do.  

You can get hit, starved, tortured, ignored and they'll take
your pants off.

Hope everyone else has a good week.

		Newton (hobbled and caged)