Visitation at
HealthSouth Rehab Hospital of Tyler
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Visitation at
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Abel tries out Joe's recumbent. Joe has to shorten the pedals significantly and add training blocks to allow the shorter member of the team to reach the pedals.
Abel solicits the help of Bob, who rides six days a week, and joined us in the assembly area, to demonstrate how Joe is so much shorter, particularly while sitting on his recumbent.
Joe and Cliff re-live their Air Force days by riding in a two ship in a left echelon formation. Cliff keeps crashing and burning while Joe makes aircraft noises with his lips.
But all is right with the world as Gale'mm takes the lead and completes the approach into the HealthSouth facility.
Abel is dumbfounded to learn from a local technical and media expert that his C-Leg has been malfunctioning all morning and whenever he walks through the automatic doors of the hospital, all of the toilets flush in the facility. Abel thought something was amiss when his C-Leg stopped sending emails.
Cliff shakes hands with John and his wife Glenna and with the reassuring style and bedside manner of a physician, tries to convince John that the pain in his leg is coming from the bursitis animalis, a point of nerve ganglia centered on the lumbar corona of the 2nd cervical vertebra. Cliff's very clear use of such non technical terms reassures John that he is in good hands.
Cliff and Joe shmooze Mary Ruth. Cliff adds to his billable hours by reassuring Mary that her pain stems from the bursitis animalis, a point of nerve ganglia centered on the lumbar corona of the 2nd cervical vertebra. Mary also is reassured with Cliff's firm grasp of non technical jargon.
Joe, as usual, starved for affection because everyone hates him, tries to solicit a kiss from Gumbeaux, a visiting hospital dog. Gumbeaux is having none of Joe's antics and refuses to lick the sugar that Joe has surreptitiously put on his lips.
Joe towers above Abel. Carol and Gale'mm can only wonder why the loss of a leg would cause so much loss of sanity. Both stroke survivors, these women are testimony to the indomitable human spirit. Sharla Anderson, CEO, Russell Walker, DMO, the PT and OT staff (even Christy), as well as every member of the hospital staff, we are deeply impressed with the love and affection you afford each and every one of your patients. Thank you for all that you have done for us, for what you do every day for your patients, and for making a difference in the lives of so many.
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the torrid two-some are joined by Gale'mm in a three-ship formation, turning
onto a final approach to the facility. Joe, as usual, is confused by
his bike mounted GPS and thinks we should have been somewhere else
