Salamander, you have a rye wit.
I'm awfully glad to have met you.
You laugh in the face of adversity, you tell the Docs to screw themselves and just get on with life.
"Salamander, you have a rye wit."
I dunno...some might consider me too corny....;)
[moving right along with the "vegetable theme]
Sometimes things get so "serious" that you have to laugh because there's nothing else left to do.
I left the hospital with a laundry list of dire warnings and symptoms to be on the alert for.
It was ridiculous.
No one could sit and remember all that stuff.
The only "rule" I observed was the "no jumping" one.
[there was a 3/4 inch wide crack in the back of of my skull and too much jarring could've made it worse...I dunno...maybe my brains would've leaked out or something]....:))
I did have mild "absence seizures" for about a year and a half but since I "wasn't there" while I had them, they didn't bother me a'tall....;)
Once the swelling went away and things healed, the "seizures" just tapered off to nothing.
I've often had to adapt to my brain's "new" ways of doing things and make allowances for the things that it doesn't do as particularly fast or efficiently as before but I feel blessed and fortunate that what is "me" is still here and kicking.
I glad to have met you, too.
I only wish it had been under happier circumstances.
[here's hoping that "the circumstances" gets to live]...;)