Tag: pain

• Just Like Riding A Bicycle

  I’m standing at the window of our hotel in New York City watching the snow blow upwards. Fifty-two floors below, whatever snow survives melts quickly on Fifty- fifth street or perhaps Broadway. Winters in Manhattan are infamous for the wicked winds that gust in from the Hudson and clash with the bluster through the cross…

  patrickjegan

  February 13, 2022

  Blogging, New York City, non-fiction, owego ny, Real Personal History, winter

  bicycles, cold winds, February weather, lumbar, Mount Sinai, neurosurgery, pain

• How I Forgot My Pain While Walking Down Broadway

  I took a baby step over the curb and onto the sidewalk.  I poked along like an aged dog.  Several days after my back surgery…they said: “Get up. Get out. Walk a little. You’ll get stronger.” My back hurt.  It was a #7.5 on the Great Medical Scale of 1 to 10.  My only thoughts…

  patrickjegan

  December 25, 2013

  Everyday Events, Melancholy Thoughts

  Broadway at Christmas, church angels, disc, hospital, lonely man, pain, spinal stenosis