Greetings from the Hospital [TE]

Jul 26, 2025

Hello friends,

Welcome back to the Trenchant Edges, a newsletter about fringe culture and people.

I know it’s been a bit since we’ve spoken.

I don’t actually have much in the way of content for you but I thought I should check in and let y'all know what’s been going on.

Sadly, the most Batman thing about me is fucking my back up and there wasn’t even a cool guy in a Luchador mask involved.

The TLDR is my L4-L5 spinal discs herniated and cut off something like 95% of my spinal columns space, pressing my poor fucking nerves enough to make my legs both numb and in pain at the same time.

It sucked.

After being fucked around a bit by the medical system I got a MRI and people started to take me seriously.

Take a look and see if you can see what’s wrong:

Yeah, it’s not supposed to look like that.

One thing led to another and about two weeks ago I went into the ER, having been clued in by my neurology team that my neurologist was on call in the ER and I was admitted to the hospital. I had surgery removing much of that disc and such on Tuesday.

Since then i’ve been some flavor for useless recovering from surgery until the last couple days, been in an intensive rehab program and I’ll probably be here till mid August. It’ll be about a month in the hospital overall.

So far I’m recovering nicely, but I don’t have my main computer with me. So it’s tricky being really productive.

But I’ve indulged in a wireless split keyboard and my tablet is plenty good for writing.

A split keyboard like this usually requires a custom keyboard that runs over $300. I snagged one for $150. I’ve got no strings!

What Does All This Mean?

I’m hoping to get things back on track, but I’m also recovering from a major surgery.

Things seems likely to result in me regaining most of all of my sensation and mobility. I can sit for a few hours already, which hasn't been possible in years.

With a bit of work and all lot of PT I should be in better health a month from now than I’ve been in years.

With that should come a lot more physical energy as I'm not tanking the rising and falling of one of the more painful injuries a person can have.

Yesterday I walked 75ft with my walker!

Well see where things go from here.

P.S. I also started a fiction project called CHOOSE YOUR OWN PULP and the first two beats are already up: