by Jeramy Hale | Oct 7, 2014 | Jeramy's Blog, Survival of the Non-Fittest
The worst is behind me, and for all of you who are following this story, the worst is behind us all. There have been moments when, in the remembering and the telling of this story, I have had to take deep breaths to calm myself down. A number of the details and events...
by Jeramy Hale | Sep 18, 2014 | Aikido, Jeramy's Blog, Survival of the Non-Fittest
In the week before Molly’s accident, she knew something was going to happen. She just didn’t know what. She said that there were all of these indicators during the week-long Aikido retreat preceding her accident that in retrospect, had filled her with a sense of...
by Jeramy Hale | Sep 5, 2014 | Aikido, Jeramy's Blog, Survival of the Non-Fittest
With all of the people coming in and out of the rehab ward at Stanford, many of them touching and massaging Molly’s body, it opened up a new world of sensation. It also opened up a new world of no sensation, because Molly didn’t have any from the neck down. Let me...
by Jeramy Hale | Aug 28, 2014 | Jeramy's Blog, Survival of the Non-Fittest
There was a steady stream of people coming into rehab every day and night to see Molly now. The nurses were used to patients getting visitors, but only for a short time, and then there would normally be a big drop off in visitors. But with Molly, there was no drop...
by Jeramy Hale | Aug 20, 2014 | Aikido, Jeramy's Blog, Survival of the Non-Fittest
The first week in rehab … someone tried to move Molly by grabbing her halo and using it as a handle. It was painful when the halo was moved like that. It was attached to Molly’s head by those 4 pointed screws, so if the halo moved at those points, it really hurt...
