Since I'm no longer in the newspapers
Hey everybody, this is Andy Marso. I haven't been around the newsroom for awhile, so some of you might not know me. I guess you'll just have to trust that I'm as super-cool as everyone says I am.
Big thanks to Amanda Kim for telling me about this blog, although I must admit I've been driven insane with jealousy at times while reading about the experiences all of you are having. But I'm happy for you too, really. Most of the time. Anyway, here is an update on my ongoing recovery, since I haven't appeared in the news recently (amazing how quickly those media types forget):
I've moved back to St. Cloud, MN and am living with my parents in the same house that I spent most of my childhood in, which is both comforting and boring. I'm still in a wheelchair, with a big metal brace on my right foot, but that may change soon. I'm supposed to go to the Twin Cities on June 22 to see Dr. Cole, an orthopedic surgeon, about getting this thing off and trying to walk again. My left foot is doing well, and has graduated from a walking boot to an brace that fits inside a normal shoe, with some foam padding in the front to fill in where my toe used to be. This brace is known as an AFO (Ankle-Foot Orthosis), not to be confused with LFO (Light, Funky Ones), the short-lived boy band that brought us "Summer Girls."
Otherwise there is little excitement in my life. I start Physical and Occupational therapy this week. The equipment and facility is nicer here than at KU Med, but instead of attractive, young, female therapists, which I had at KU, here I will be instructed by a dude and a middle-aged woman. But I guess it is a fair trade-off.
I'm looking forward to the end of the month, when fellow newsie Louise Stauffer comes to MN for a check-up at the Mayo Clinic. We're arranging a little get-together, and it will be really nice to see her. And to complain about how shitty it is to be at the mercy of the health care industry for a year. I'll let you all know how that goes.
--Andy
Big thanks to Amanda Kim for telling me about this blog, although I must admit I've been driven insane with jealousy at times while reading about the experiences all of you are having. But I'm happy for you too, really. Most of the time. Anyway, here is an update on my ongoing recovery, since I haven't appeared in the news recently (amazing how quickly those media types forget):
I've moved back to St. Cloud, MN and am living with my parents in the same house that I spent most of my childhood in, which is both comforting and boring. I'm still in a wheelchair, with a big metal brace on my right foot, but that may change soon. I'm supposed to go to the Twin Cities on June 22 to see Dr. Cole, an orthopedic surgeon, about getting this thing off and trying to walk again. My left foot is doing well, and has graduated from a walking boot to an brace that fits inside a normal shoe, with some foam padding in the front to fill in where my toe used to be. This brace is known as an AFO (Ankle-Foot Orthosis), not to be confused with LFO (Light, Funky Ones), the short-lived boy band that brought us "Summer Girls."
Otherwise there is little excitement in my life. I start Physical and Occupational therapy this week. The equipment and facility is nicer here than at KU Med, but instead of attractive, young, female therapists, which I had at KU, here I will be instructed by a dude and a middle-aged woman. But I guess it is a fair trade-off.
I'm looking forward to the end of the month, when fellow newsie Louise Stauffer comes to MN for a check-up at the Mayo Clinic. We're arranging a little get-together, and it will be really nice to see her. And to complain about how shitty it is to be at the mercy of the health care industry for a year. I'll let you all know how that goes.
--Andy
posted by The University Daily Kansan at 12:28 PM
3 Comments:
"New Kids On The Block, had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick.
And I think it's fly when girls stop by for the summer, for the summer
I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch,
I'd take her if I had one wish,
But she's been gone since that summer..
Since that summer"
Good lord Andy, it's all coming back to me now ... damn you! — AKS
Don't forget, they also brought us the semi-ballad "Girl on TV."
Good to see you on here :D -Prada Paige
Hey now, let's no bash on those hits. That was the highlight of either 8th grade or freshman year. I forget which. Good to hear from you Andy (even though I think our newsroom paths crossed but once, and you were stressed about something to do with Student Senate). Keep plugging away.
Kealing
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