Bruce and Gerald Part 2



Starting this entry is very hard.  To quote Allison Curbo there are several people here at the center who deserve a level of praise.

As I have been at the Center for Neuro Skills since April I have done testing under numerous therapists and each of them have helped me in ways that were unimaginable.

Two such therapists are Bruce and Gerald.  Each day I have come to the Clinic was incomplete without a sighting of one or either the other.

Today is no different.

As I walk around the clinic for my daily routine I can hear Bruce's voice booming from somewhere inside the Center,  His voice is infectious and it fills me and many patients with a sense of joy.

Just yesterday I was doing health club and Gerald commented on my beard saying he wanted to see me with a trimmed beard and haircut.  It was a kind comment--the sort given by men who admire each other. In ways there are many reasons I return to the clinic and give my all in the trek to get better.  Two of the best reasons are Bruce and Gerald.

After checking to blog today I noticed that nine people had looked at the newest entry, and I almost love that people are excited about my entries.  

Truthfully, I am still constructing the entry or the second entry on these two titans of fitness and self esteem, but it shows me I have a following, and I must work harder to crank out entries--I will try to write faster.



But if you see this under construction sign please know I am working on my computer at home, trying to save and write the funniest parts, so I can do these men justice.

I owe a lot to the PT department, but I also owe a lot to CNS.

Each day I learn many new things about coming to terms with my traumatic brain injury and Bruce and Gerald help me not to regress to what I was before my stroke.

There are many things that I am grateful for. One of them is health club.  Every Monday and Wednesday, I go to the YMCA with these two men.  And everyday they make me go up and down the stairs.  One day they gave Skip a reprieve from having to do the stairs--and to be honest I felt a little betrayed.

Skip, however, has been working at his own recovery and I agree, Skip is still my inspiration.  But Bruce and Gerald were the first to tell me I did not need the walker, and Bruce and Gerald fought for me in ways that even now I know I cannot do justice even in this blog.

Every day Bruce and Gerald do something to surprise me.  Once I was preparing to do my six minute walk with Katy when this dark sultry voice came up  behind us and said, "What're you two doing." It was funny because both Kat and I screamed.  It turns out that it was just Bruce but we both laughed but Katy is extremely hard to scare and it gave me the motivation to move faster.

At other Gerald and Bruce have managed to make myself and many other patients laugh with stories every time we ridge in the rickety old van to the YMCA for health and fitness club. 

There simply is not enough space in one entry to tell all the stories of these two amazing men and physical therapists.  

Damn, there will have to be a Part 3.



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