Personally, this is a historic day for me. It was on this date, ten years ago, at Renown Hospital in Reno, Dr. Bray of Reno Orthopedic Clinic point blank said to me “You are going to die.” He abruptly left my room, and I never saw or heard from him again.

What happened. On the evening of August 15, I had shattered my right hip. An interesting tale to say the least. The next morning Dr. Bray was my surgeon. Twenty-four hours after surgery, he visited me, and was disgusted because I could not walk. It should be noted, that he hollowed out my femur and inserted and stainless steel rod, connecting to myknee. For the next three weeks I was not able to put any weight, per Reno Orthopedic doctor’s orders, on the injured leg.

Every quarter, for a year, I would have follow up appointment at Reno Orthopedic. Dr. Bray assigned an intern to me. The intern criticized me for walking with a limp. Fast forward several years later, it was revealed to me that during the hip surgery Dr. Bray performed, he shortened my leg by two inches, and never told me about it. Hence, that explains why I have a balance problem while walking.

Oh well, it’s water under the bridge, but ten years later Dr. Bray’s prediction never came to fruition. So here I am still conducting research and writing about the regions past. One positive benefit as a result from that accident, is I have sixty days of post scheduled, just in case of an emergency. At the moment, I am working on the wild horse issues of yesteryear, scheduled for November 7.

Tim