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Dirtbox 91,955 posts
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Registered 12 months agoJono62 wrote:
I’m a lot stronger in general than I was, walking will be affected for a long time and the explanation I’ve been given about the paralysed right shoulder is that the damaged nerves will recover to whatever the new 100% is going to be over as long as a year. I can bicep curl a 1 kilo weight but not a 2 kilo one. The left arm is better but I have to take time with it as they stitched a few muscles in the forearm back together. I get an ultrasound on the 17th to see how the 10cm blood clot in my right arm is going. Bit concerned the bathtub full of medications I’ve been taking morning and night are frying me a bit because I’ve developed a pretty frustrating stammer, but I’m wondering if it is a withdrawal symptom maybe as I’ve been weaning back two of the painkillers. Did stand-up comedy last week and people I meet in public are slightly mind-blown, seems I’m a minor celebrity. Just today I’ve finally got the neck brace off. I’d not understood how my neck got broken in the first place: turns out one of the three stab wounds in my neck cracked one bone and sheared a piece off another, and now there’s a sharp shard of bone floating about in my neck near the (also sharp) thingy it was cut off. Makes lying on the couch a mite uncomfortable, but I might buy a couch with a softer arm-rest I’ve been looking at.
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davidfowles 324 posts
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Registered 12 months agoDirtbox wrote:
I’ll have to try Dark Souls again. I expect I’m really good at it now.
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davidfowles 324 posts
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Registered 12 months agochallenge_hanukkah wrote:
Probably not. The short message is he’s probably too poor to even bother suing, but also, frankly, a civil case is just an unattractive way to keep the guy in my life longer.There’s other avenues for assistance though which I’m pursuing and it all looks very optimistic.
Apologies if this has already been covered, but are you expecting any recompense or anything?
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Murbs 24,964 posts
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mothercruncher 18,727 posts
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Load_2.0 32,507 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAt least let him heal first! -
Phattso 26,481 posts
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Registered 17 years agoIf you use your weakest arm what percentage of it feels like someone else is doing it?
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davidfowles 324 posts
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Registered 12 months agoWanking is basically physio. -
Jono62 26,355 posts
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Registered 13 years agoHow's the recovery going? -
davidfowles 324 posts
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Registered 12 months agoI’m doing well enough. Everything got thrown off course by the pandemic. I’ve only just become able to go to the hospital physio in person in the last week or so, was having phone consultations with them previously. But I’ve been exercising at home as I can and have made gradual but inevitable progress. Could curl about a kilo with my right arm when I got out of hospital, I’m up to three kilos now. Which still isn’t much but I’ve a significantly greater use of the arm. The left arm and knees are also significantly improved, though I’m not going to be doing any jogging soon. (I tried and it was a mistake). I can play The Last of Us II, which is the important thing.
No news on the court case, either. Their whole system has been delayed by the pandemic as well. As far as I’m aware nothing has happened. But I also think it’s a super low-priority for them. They have him on tape saying he did it, and again on the police body cam, in front of a whole bunch of people, while covered in blood, and his prints on the knife, so I guess they don’t think there’s a rush to have courts determine if he’s the culprit. -
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Registered 12 months agoI don’t know how to make a link to my Instagram, but it’s mostly pictures of my cat, who is very cute. The account name is lolzarus -
richarddavies 8,109 posts
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Registered 12 years agoJust followed you on insta anyway (not that I've ever used it). And in regards to the other fella, just keep your fingers crossed. Sounds like there isn't much evidence, but if you're sure it's him. Hopefully he's going down. -
Jono62 26,355 posts
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Registered 13 years agoIf he doesn't, you have your revenge flick right there.
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Ror 20,322 posts
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Registered 11 years agoHe's going to play TLoU2 as well, so he can gather tips. -
sirtacos 8,244 posts
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Registered 13 years agoGlad to know your recovery is on track. Astounding that you've already done some standup. Relieved you can play the Last of Us. Hope that in time, your brush with murder gives you some good fucking material. -
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Registered 12 years agoCheers chaps -
davidfowles 324 posts
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Registered 12 months agoI read back over the thread and saw heaps of people asking after the cat. My otherwise rarely-used instagram is a good source of proof-of-life photos of her. -
Dirtbox 91,955 posts
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Registered 18 years agoGood to hear you're slowly in the mend, still blown away at your attitude toward the bloke. Wholesome as fuck, one might say.
And on the up side, once this pandemic has blown over, you'll be better still and can utilise those cool scars to smash tons of pussy. -
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Registered 12 months agoHopefully! But I’m a little worried I’ll fall into an addictive cycle of self-disfigurement to find that “pussy magnet” sweet spot. -
davidfowles 324 posts
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Registered 12 months agoBit of an update to this, apart from the excruciating slog this year has been otherwise (I’m in the only Australian state to experience months and months of full lockdown) in recent week the court stuff concluded. He pleaded guilty on October 13 to “Intentionally causing serious injury” which sounds less dramatic than “attempted murder” but is still a serious charge with a maximum penalty of twenty years. In practice, no one ever gets that, but the fact remains you wouldn’t want to be in the dock over it.
They had the sentencing hearing on Thursday last week and the judge talked for maybe an hour or more, which was very interesting for me as there was a lot of information came out that I didn’t know about. I’m hoping to get a written version of the summary at some point so I can go back over it.
The court process was weird as it was all over a kind of Zoom thing, absolutely no one was in the same room. But it meant we could watch it without being seen or heard which was good.
The judge wound up giving him 6 years with a non-parole period of 4 years. My family and I were happy with this result and the prosecution were satisfied by it too. The judge said he would have sentenced him to 7.5 years with 5 non-parole without the “pleaded guilty” discount.
The sentencing coincided with all the shops finally re-opening in my state and I moved house the following day into a lovely little two bedroom house, where I am still sorting out the mountains of shit I’ve had in storage for six months. -
richarddavies 8,109 posts
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Registered 12 years agoWell as long as you and the family is happy with the result, just concentrate on moving on from it now. Hopefully (mentally at least) you're already on your way. -
Jono62 26,355 posts
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Registered 13 years agoNice, thanks for the update. -
mothercruncher 18,727 posts
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Registered 14 years ago😎 -
Frogofdoom 17,223 posts
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Registered 9 years agoThat doesn't feel like nearly long enough for what he did to you. However if you are happy with it, thats the main thing and you can start to move on with getting life back to normal. -
Fake_Blood 10,741 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI was about to ask if you did any more stand-up, but then I remembered it’s 2020. -
davidfowles 324 posts
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Registered 12 months agoI managed to do stand up ONCE just after I got out of hospital, neck brace and sling on and everything. Then every venue closed and we effectively went into maybe 8 months of lockdown.
I’ve done some online stand up in recent months, but it’s really not where my interest is. Some are videoed on my YouTube page, though, fair warning, there’s probably a lot of obscure references to early 90s Australian TV shows.
Here’s the first one I did, some others are there too, it’s all rubbish.
https://youtu.be/5o0J-ldVKkE
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Glad to hear that ubergine is on the mend
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