Last Tuesday, while on my way to visit  a friend in Pinetop and take a few days respite from Mary-care, I got just north of Oracle, took my eyes of the road, ran off the road at 55 MPH.  looked up, overcorrected, crossed the highway (2 lane) roll-flipped the car. and thudded into a deep ditch with almost vertical sides.  People said I was lucky to be alive.  I didn't bother explaining.  Walked away with just a few small scratches and two compound compression fractures of T5 and T6.  No spinal cord damage.  No other internal injuries.   No loss of consciousness.

Suffice it to say that it is ironic that the two times in the past Year I've tried to make my life better both ended with broken bones and months of pain.  Is there a message there?

Anyway, back hurts.  Sore neck much better; just muscle strain, I think.  Will see about getting a brace sometime Monday.

I did this as a group mailing because I want to ask al of you who care one way or the other that I can not sit at the computer for hours thanking you for your condolences.  Sorry, but true.

First day "home" was filled mostly by beating myself up as being stupid.  Am mostly beyond that now and have come to the realization that I now have nothing: no car, no pool, no pets (as the song goes).   No land no home and no furniture.  Few prospects.  A "pretend" wife.  Big change from just a few years ago.

Still thinking about leaving Tucson.  Must leave this house and Mary very soon.

If bad things happen in threes, the third should be a doozy.