#verbal maps

[dreamer434]

"I have no way and therefore want no eyes. I stumbled when I saw. Full oft ’tis seen Our means secure us, and our mere defects Prove our commodities. O dear son Edgar, The food of thy abusèd father’s wrath, Might I but live to see thee in my touch, I’d say I had eyes again."

from King Lear

[dreamer434]

Mendset

For a long time, I could not understand what Mendy was laughing about. Every instance when a door opens and closes or when an object falls to the ground, Mendel would suddenly laugh. These things are highly expected? Maybe he looked at a familiar person’s arrival from the door like a cameo appearance from a sitcom. The staff is indeed on rotating shifts. It was only later did I begin to imagine perhaps Mendy was nervously laughing at the sudden shift of events. There is one person, for example, we cannot talk anything about the future (Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow- Ian Mckellan’s analysis always gets me). Most of comedy is noting the awkwardness of life. Mendy’s instinct seems more prepared to watch and distinguish a Grecian comedy from tragedy.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

I spend half of my days reading, conducting, and discussing my previous professor’s behavioral and goal plans for Mendy and his fellow roommates. The other half of the time, I read medical records and ask the doctors if alternative solutions to his medication can be used. It’s remarkable to see how much he progressed and achieved in his gait. Sign language has helped Mendy and I communicate with each other. It’s odd that some people have the nerve to claim his challenges are to amend for a previous lifetime.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

My observations are likely not causatively connected. It is quite possible not all the solutions are resolving other potential factors. Then again, Mendy and the other people in his community have been quite tolerant. Sure, it would take time for them to learn and understand you, but they know to accept you are different. In the meantime, Mendy and I will develop inside jokes that I’m sure we may all recognize. Maybe I ought to mend my mindset of expectations.

[dreamer434]

Words of healing

There are 5 rights in administering words of medicine. It should be given to the right person, the right words of healing, the right dose, the right route, and at the right time. Words can vary in their effect. Some can be synergistic, neutral, or antagonistic to other words of healing. I am still, after all these years, an amateur at the process, but there is one thing I have learnt. One of the greatest relief of medicine is when it is eliminated or released from the body after achieving its effect. Words of doubt or worry on one’s mind that’s been openly addressed will allow for influx of words of reassurance and homeostasis to return.      

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