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personal Wed Feb 24th @ 7:00am by Paul Ingraham

Stuck in Thailand! Send Help!

If you have a private jet, please come and pick us up, or my office will continue to be a laptop in a Thai hospital for a while yet! I’d hoped to keep up a trickle of writing during Kim’s rehab, but phew ... it’s tough! (If you missed the news, see the post about my wife’s nasty car accident.) Although she is recovering well, it’s still an extremely challenging situation, and we face some delays getting back to Vancouver. Flights are packed due to the Olympics, and we need several seats for Kim’s stretcher. We still don’t know when we’ll finally get out of here, but it could be anywhere from Mar 5 to late March.

Quite a bit longer than I want to live in a hospital, even with the shorter scenario.

I have no idea when I’ll get around to it, but this experience is certainly going to inspire some writing. I am getting a lot of really intensive, personal experience with spinal injury rehabilitation. Like I didn’t know enough about back pain already …

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A new chapter: medical factors that perpetuate pain
Aug 17 teaser
 
Kind of a big deal coming
Aug 10 humour
 
Sheldon Cooper on overconfidence
Aug 10 core strengthening
 
Two more mighty scientific blows to the credibility of “core strengthening” as a therapy for low back pain