Tuesday, January 5, 2016

who am i and why do i have a frankenfoot to blog about



Hello reader, I have been a lurking paranormal researching for a while; I mean that I have been reading books on the topic for most of my life and have had many experiences that i will get into at a later time when i feel more comfortable talking about them. The thought of starting a paranormal blog started a while back, May of 2014 I had a near death experience, when I woke up from my coma I wanted to talk about what I had seen and my experience (that is also a topic i will get into here at a later time). While i recovered in the hospital I read some Nick Redfern, listened to Darkness Radio and many other paranormal podcasts, and I learned how to walk with a walker.

Here it is almost two years later and I finally came up with a name for the blog; (thank you Red Pill Junkie) i had sent a tweet about how electric stimulation to my nerves had started to make my mostly useless left foot start working more. RPJ tweeted some fire at me about how i missed a good hashtag opportunity... and with this tweet this blog was created.

My left foot has not fully recovered since my near death experience; full disclosure I had been "dead" for about 17 hours, the lack of oxygen to my extremities caused the nerves to be extremely damaged; when I woke up from the coma only my right arm worked and the last rites will need to be read one more time hopefully many many years from now. Recently my toes have started to be able to move, that is a big deal. I want you to wiggle your toes, there you have more control of your left foot than i have. Now i want you to flex your foot down, great I just recently started to be able to do that comfortably. Now flex your foot back up, that is the thing I can not do, that is why I need to wear a big ankle brace with special shoes; I need to make my foot work like a normal foot, like your foot probably works. When you lose something physically, you never knew how good you had it until it is gone; my left hand and foot have been on fire since I was able to start feeling them again. Nerve pain is basically as bad as it gets.


The physical therapist got me a TENS (Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) Unit to help with the nerve recovery; although I did not use it as much as I could have it was not until playing Deux Ex: Human Revolution a cyberpunk/futurist game backed by actual science... I fell down a YouTube hole; I saw a name on a door in the game. Will Rosellini. I had heard that name before but I wasn't sure where, so I searched his name and I came across a TED talk he did (then i followed more and more videos down the suggested videos list until i came across a video about TENS style electrics being installed under the skin, directly on the nerves).
So i guess Will Rosellini is partly responsible for me using my TENS unit more, for my foot starting to work more and for RPJ telling me to use the #Frankenfoot hashtag more. The foot is working more.

But absolutely nothing here is really that paranormal, i mean other than my near death experience that I have not talked about here and I will not discuss yet.
I want to talk about things that I have been interested in for years and things I discover as this blog goes on. Ghosts/hauntings, UFOs, Cryptids, shadow people, near death experiences and things like that.

I'd really like to research local things, but when i was in the hospital my cousins and i had decided we should go to Gettysburg and go ghost hunt there.

okay. i rambled, did not proof read or really plan this out. I will be working on this blog more often.

3 comments:

  1. Ah. Missed the 1234 synchro for a minute, Tom. Need to work more on those ;)

    Srsly good on you to start your own blog to share your thoughts and experiences. I wanted to do the same last year, and even secured a domain for it, but so far the laziness has gotten the better of me :-/

    "When you lose something physically, you never knew how good you had it until it is gone."

    True dat. I've had health problems for several years by now, and the things that used to be fairly effortless, like running 2 miles or flexing my left arm seem to be a thing of the past. And yet in a way there seems to be a 'grounding' effect to discomfort and physical pain, isn't it? Like it could be used, if not to appreciate this life more, at least to make it feel "more real" than typical dreams.

    Saludos,

    RPJ

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    1. just one minute late on my post for the 1234! lol! I get enough synchronicities as it is, my mom was talking about something finincial as i drove her to see a friend of hers and when she said "taxes" the line in the song on the cd said "income taxes" (it was the new abney park album "wasteland").

      I would like to secure a domain name at some point, let's see how this blog plays out and if i keep at it.

      I would really like to research a ufo flap that my grandpa investigated (he was a cop); he has been gone for a number of years but i am pretty sure it was in all the local papers.

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