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A Gleam of Hope....
At last I had faced the famous Israel medicine!...
Impressive that was in any senses – the surgery its self was just perfect, the most impressive its part was the type of anaesthesia in use. Instead of the traditional “general” anaesthesia that makes you loosing your mind, the used “nerve block” type does not shut our mind down and you could realise things happening with you. Just no pain at all! And a curtain in front of your eyes that prevent you looking at the very “field of work” - I really appreciated that curtain for though it were interesting, I am not sure I could stand seeing it!
Since that type of anaesthesia did not shut my mind down, the interest toward life and surrounding events soon came back. Since I don't know the Hebrew, the Internet was accessible only some
minutes a day and there is no Russian-English TV, I had to get reading a lot, more than usually. However the local newspapers are that emotions-intensive, that in my psychological state I hast can't stand it – hence I got reading books that I missed while was studying in the school. Last time it was the Tolstoy's “Anna Karenina”, this time it is the Gogol's “Dead Souls”,,,, so having at least 4 surgeries ahead I could get rereading all the Russian Classic! And Now I understand it clearer than formerly how useless it was to make kids of 14-15 years old with no life experience at all, it were useless to make them reading all those books. They are great indeed, but at that age they would not be understood and that causes nothing but jokes and annoyance, that spoil any further interest toward them.
So I have a good chance to broaden my education...
As for the hope... I have almost loosen it. That gleam that I mentioned in the title may be just the groundless self-inspiration attempt. I left not the wheelchair, and to leave it I were not be able without two knee surgeries at least - saying nothing on some hands-palms surgeries... So the active life is still shut for me – but this just means that I could get familiar with new interesting materials and get analysing them, while applying all mt life experience. After the opinion of the well-known psychologist Edward de Bono (
http://www.edwdebono.com/) all these factors are the best sources for creativity.And I suppose that there is some, but who would care for it?
However to come back to real word I would need long term effort
costs rehabilitation that does not exist yet in Israel. In Israel the accent is made on automatic working the limbs and joints out - here you may see the apparatus that in automatic regime is working out the knee joint. Very convenient it is! While it's working you may either get reading or get reflecting or speaking with my neighbouring lady... However...
The main physiotherapist that is working in the rehabilitation centre that works seriously, effort cast, in technique similar to the Russian one is Martin, the German from Dusseldorf. He got working with me and he says I make some success. But anyway the knee is still not able to get bend more that 70 degrees and the left leg is still shorter than the right one for about 4 centimetres and its knee is still wretched....
So a long way is ahead....