Leg rests

Tom's leg rests for awhile while he heals up. After working with it, walking on his parellel bars, his leg went into spasms and we had to go for help at Emergency, so he is trying to heal a little better before he tries again. We've had to realize just what handicapped means...when your leg is gone, it is gone and you just have to deal with it. He can't reach into cupboards until he can stand. Getting to the bathroom takes manuvering. Going outside can send you down hill in a wheelchair...I appreciate that story of Joe Burns getting on top of the Avenues in SLC and letting go, riding down across streets until he slowed and stopped. Than
having to pull himself back up the hill. Tom discovered using tools sitting down is either not easy or impossible. He can cook Ramon noodles and jokes abut it.
All those little things, you don't think about. But one thing he does just the same, SMOKE. The greatest danger of all.
I have been reworking the Clyde King Story in case someone wants to print it again. Fixing wrong dates. Correcting names. Marge said we didn't say enough about what he did (wrote only drinking stories). I read over the material and wondered what else we could add. (More drinking stories?) He did manage to become a hard-working rancher and paid off three ranches. I think he tried hard to stop drinking as he got older and was around his kids more, but didn't we say that?
He got around from Phoenix to Utah quite a bit. But, I will take another look, then gather myself to look at my own biography. I feel like moving on out of the difficult areas of home. Boulder History calls.