Guess what?
I really didn't plan on doing this again. I had ACL surgery at 16, and again yesterday.
The first week or two after the injury I just kept thinking I really didn't plan for this.
That original thought passed after a few days and I'm on to seeing this as a chance to form better habits and take care of my body. I've neglected myself since covid hit with full-time work and little exercise.
My surgeon made me promise to go to physical therapy.
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Get well soon!
Thanks FJ. This will call for a slow and steady rehab, and strictly following doctor's orders.... Which I sometimes struggle with.
SOCRATES: Take the case of the pleasures which arise out of certain disorders.
PROTARCHUS: What disorders?
SOCRATES: The pleasures of unseemly disorders, which our severe friends utterly detest.
PROTARCHUS: What pleasures?
SOCRATES: Such, for example, as the relief of itching and other ailments by scratching, which is the only remedy required. For what in Heaven's name is the feeling to be called which is thus produced in us?—Pleasure or pain?
PROTARCHUS: A villainous mixture of some kind, Socrates, I should say.
SOCRATES: I did not introduce the argument, O Protarchus, with any personal reference to Philebus, but because, without the consideration of these and similar pleasures, we shall not be able to determine the point at issue.
PROTARCHUS: Then we had better proceed to analyze this family of pleasures.
SOCRATES: You mean the pleasures which are mingled with pain?
PROTARCHUS: Exactly.
SOCRATES: There are some mixtures which are of the body, and only in the body, and others which are of the soul, and only in the soul; while there are other mixtures of pleasures with pains, common both to soul and body, which in their composite state are called sometimes pleasures and sometimes pains.
PROTARCHUS: How is that?
SOCRATES: Whenever, in the restoration or in the derangement of nature, a man experiences two opposite feelings; for example, when he is cold and is growing warm, or again, when he is hot and is becoming cool, and he wants to have the one and be rid of the other;—the sweet has a bitter, as the common saying is, and both together fasten upon him and create irritation and in time drive him to distraction.
PROTARCHUS: That description is very true to nature.
SOCRATES: And in these sorts of mixtures the pleasures and pains are sometimes equal, and sometimes one or other of them predominates?
PROTARCHUS: True.
SOCRATES: Of cases in which the pain exceeds the pleasure, an example is afforded by itching, of which we were just now speaking, and by the tingling which we feel when the boiling and fiery element is within, and the rubbing and motion only relieves the surface, and does not reach the parts affected; then if you put them to the fire, and as a last resort apply cold to them, you may often produce the most intense pleasure or pain in the inner parts, which contrasts and mingles with the pain or pleasure, as the case may be, of the outer parts; and this is due to the forcible separation of what is united, or to the union of what is separated, and to the juxtaposition of pleasure and pain.
PROTARCHUS: Quite so.
PROTARCHUS: Yes, indeed.
SOCRATES: He will say of himself, and others will say of him, that he is dying with these delights; and the more dissipated and good-for-nothing he is, the more vehemently he pursues them in every way; of all pleasures he declares them to be the greatest; and he reckons him who lives in the most constant enjoyment of them to be the happiest of mankind.
PROTARCHUS: That, Socrates, is a very true description of the opinions of the majority about pleasures.
SOCRATES: Yes, Protarchus, quite true of the mixed pleasures, which arise out of the communion of external and internal sensations in the body; there are also cases in which the mind contributes an opposite element to the body, whether of pleasure or pain, and the two unite and form one mixture. Concerning these I have already remarked, that when a man is empty he desires to be full, and has pleasure in hope and pain in vacuity. But now I must further add what I omitted before, that in all these and similar emotions in which body and mind are opposed (and they are innumerable), pleasure and pain coalesce in one....
I can also say that surgeons have done a 180 from the 90s to today regarding prescribing pain meds.
It's a little nerve wracking to be told that you need to be completely off pain meds just 5 days after surgery.
How's the COVID situation where you are, FJ? We're seeing lots of health care workers quit due to the corporate mandates for vaccination. Our children's hospitals in Texas have seen a surge in cases.
Did you see the Olympic gymnasts testify before Congress about the FBI botching the Nassar investigation? Creepy stuff.
And no, I didn't watch, but I hear that some FBI agent got canned.
I just finished watching a Netflix movie on the 9/11 victims compensation fund. It pretty much exemplifies everything that is wrong with our government. i'm beginning to believe that Baudrillard has the best explanation for our current dysfunction (the problem of hegemony). Welcome to the post-truth era, where "evil" is a ventriloquist.
There has been a massive transfer of decision making to computerized devices
This is a voluntary servitude far more profound that servitude before tyrants
The failure of will implies the disappearance of every subject, the deresponsibilisation of humankind
Today power itself is an embarrassment and there is no one to assume it truly.
Programming has transformed progress, which was an idea, a great historical idea, into a technological operation of the world in real time
We must therefore recognize that the West has become a totalitarian space, the space of a self defensive hegemony defending itself against its own weakness
Everyone is an accomplice. And hegemony uses this complicity to lower individuals even more, playing on everyone’s desire to lower themselves in this way. Hegemony works by devaluing everyone.
The era of hegemony is the era of the cyber system. It governs, it regulates, but if does not dominate. There is no longer any exploited or dominated. There is something else, something much harder to take by surprise.
Having spent half of 2019 ill and seriously ill in hospital it is surprising how quickly you get out of condition. since then I have been working out every other day for 30 mins it has made a big difference.
I was back to being well enough to going out when covid hit a bit of an extended convalescence :)