Neck rods inserted Jan 12, 2017
Post-Op, Day 19
In last dark of night
awaiting new morning dawn
Day reduced to pain management
Night to finding compromise
twixt neck, neck brace, and sleep
Pain as Sisyphus slog
No right and comfortable
just long wrong
Slowly fading to gone
Tired of the pain
tired of the pain pills
– Smith, 1.31.2017
Dem Bones from the 1950s by the Delta Rhythm Boys who recorded from 1934 to 1987
Hip replacement June 2011
Shoulder replacement Oct 2014
Unhealable broken knee Jan 2016
Neck rods inserted Jan 2017 – foto by Lady K
Smithenstein!