makobob needs HELP

[makobob]

Past, present, future.X Yesterday, today, tomorrow.X Your life rolls on, day by day, week by week.X The "past" is all of your yesterdays.X The "present" is today. Your "future" starts tomorrow.X What will it hold.X Most of us do not know.X I know that Baja is in my future.X And for a friend of mine, Steven Green, chemo starts very soon.

The things you did in the past and are doing now, you may not be able to do in the future.X As time goes on how will you adapt to lifes changes?X How will you cope?X Can you continue to live the life you want?X What can you do to insure your life does not change too much?X These are the questions that worry me.

I now know they will take my infected foot.X The call the surgery a BKA.X Below the Knee Amputation.X Basically they cut the leg bones above the bottom of the calf.X XThen they fold over lower part of the calf to cover and protect the bone ends, stitch it up, wait for it to heal.XX

As it is healing it is "shaped" to fit a socket for an artifical leg.X As the shaping is taking place the STUMP is desensitezed.X After it is healed the prostecisis is fitted and you relearn how to walk again.X This process takes time.X Some are walking in 6 months.X This process take most people longer.

The inital wound will usually surface heal in a month to 6 weeks.X Shaping the stump and reducing the sensations in the leg, maybe a two to four months.X Then the fitting of the new appendage and finally learning to balance and walk again.X It is a long process, wish I could have started yesterday.

As you learn to walk again, confidence must be built.X Walking on a flat, level surface is tough enough, but I want to be able to walk on SAND, beach rocks, desert roads too.X So I know there will be a long road for me to walk to return to Baja.X But Baja makes my life worth living, so I will walk that road with a smile on my face no matter how much it might hurt.

Yesterday they told me my surgery would take place next week.X The past, yesterday is history, and today leads to tomorrow.X Getting back to Baja and my future for me will be a long bumpy maybe painful road.X But get there I MUST.X "Baja or Bust" is moore then just a slogan, for me it is a way of life that I share with my friends.XX

Speaking of friends, a couple have asked me lately if there was ANYTHING they could do for me.X I told them that I have a friend in need, Steven Green, AKA "landwhale".X So help me help Steven.X PLEASE go to the "A chance to help Landwhale" thread on BigWatersEdge and donate what you can.X Or maybe someone can post the link here for me.XX

Having beat cancer Steven is now fighting a brain tumor.X Anything you can give will go to medical his expenses.X Thank you for helping me help a friend, as to me that is what friends are for.X Steven I hope to sea you on the water soon amigo.X Tight Lines.