Five of Nine Lives \\ point taken and not a moment too soon.

Five of Nine Lives






For people that have known me for years this medical horror story is just one more Rich event. For those hearing of the autism Pain tolerance for the first time it will sound like Science Fiction. Autism both the contemporary and old versions were noted for its people demonstrating a pain tolerance . Old autism brochures prior to the Rain Man Era spoke of kids that would not move to be comfortable in mothers arms. The truth be told we were not uncomfortable. We only feel 7 and above on the pain scale. My Autism Hero Alan Turing 1912-1954 ran Marathons with out walls! He never hurt or ached from sore stiff joints or even displayed any form of tired like his fellow runner did. The Autism pain Tolerance was once common knowledge and today it surely baffles parents and care givers and probably the autism guy him self. I have learned via experience and life of hard real world knocks that I thought I felt pain but until I really DID feel pain for the first time with an abscess tooth I never knew pain. The pain we don’t feel is VERY dangerous.



I spent the last 5 days in Doctors West Hospital in Columbus ,Ohio . I was taken there via EMS services and a very eventful day nearly deadly day. Right after I got my hair cut (thanks Curt) I started feeling poor. I stopped at Aldi to get milk and never even got out of the van , I just felt horrible… I drove to 500 and got the van indoors and then used the rest room and fainted. I felt my self going down so I laid down before I fell…… I came too took 5 more steps and laid down and fainted again… This next time I fainted I made it to the office and must have been out for a few hours… I came to and called my sister and she and my neighbor Adam got me to the Hospital via a 911 call.



I could not stand or walk and my ever faithful hip hurt like hell. I made it to the ER and presented with all kinds of major issues . Doctor’s Hospital ,bless them did a wonderful job of testing and caring. The long story short I was 5 pints low on blood. I had been bleeding internally probably for a few years via a bleeding ulcer. I was operated on and the ulcer was fixed. I was given lots more blood and soon felt wonderful…. Wonderful is a FALSE positive in Autism circles . I know finally feeling perfect is just a fact of the ideal the pain tolerance dropped below 7.



I had been getting really weak for at least 2 weeks before this and was sleeping 12 hours a day some days. I had the almost exact same thing happen two years prior to this and was also hospitalized but I felt better and was released with out any diagnosis.



The biggest lesion I learned this time sitting there in the hospital counting my 9 lives was I better wake up and take very close look at those lives and slow down ,A point taken finally.



The repaired instine ulcer is directly over a staple installed from a earlier operation . This is the science fiction bit and my guess. I can actually feel the hip on right side move in and out of joint,,, NO it doesn’t hurt, NOT so ironically very spot that hurts around the hip joint is very spot where the intestine repair was . How do you tell a doctor a science fiction story like that? I am very thankful Dr. Mehta and his staff worked Thanksgiving day and now all is well. The staple may or may not be a factor in the ulcer but in my mind they are just too close for comfort. I wonder did the staple puncture the intestine? We might never know but I am grateful and thankful for the blood some A neg blood donor gave . Once you stare death in the face, and count the pints of blood going in you- One appreciates life more than before.



I had been bleeding for at least 3 weeks according to the nurses and doctors but I never knew to look at the stool in the commode and read the color of it.



All is well that ends well IF you learned a lesson and I finally learned one this time, as I shook and cried when removing the Hospital ID band, It could have been on a toe in the morgue….



As you can see the Pain Tolerance has written another small but potent chapter to Medical history and as I say I am delighted no drug company has us in their torture chamber as guinea pigs . Add the psychology bit of autism to the story and man’s mind and roots are fully explained via a Di Vinci Code that the best of research will never be privileged to discover. It takes one to know one! Please note ,,, man thinks in short cut thoughts all the time and Autistics learn to do that too. AFTER we learn the long hand version of human thought that starts below 123 and the ABC’s



Rich Shull on the blog Pre Rain Man Autism

Another X ray Tech "gulped"

For my long term readers who know of the pain tolerance this is not news but for the rest of you,,,,

I spent the past summer at work pulling a garden hose to and over the roof of a 5 story building (where I work) in order to test for leaks and clean skylights.  The hose starts in the car park on the ground floor and from there I pull it up the side of the building, then over the top of the roof to where its needed. I guess if I were 20 something I could have got away with this.  As it was I did this trick 4-5 times last summer and the final time I finally pulled a shoulder or two.  Naturally , I never felt it happen as all of  that luxary of feeling instant pain  is just not in our genes. However, a few days later the shoulders really start to hurt, especially sleeping at night and rolling over 'just right', what  is a nasty wake up call happening several times a night. We only feel 7 and above on the pain scale.

My doctor visit today was remarkable  for once I figured out the answers he needed to hear and I told them the right number for the Pain Scale. I learned years ago with needles in my foot and car axles in my gut IT DOES hurt even if I don't feel it. Thankfully the exam was 'failed' as I had very limited motion of my arms and indeed things hurt this time. 

I ended up across town to get shoulder X rays and as ususal the X ray tech "Gulped- Screamed,,,,, Gasped" when she seen the picture. Of Course she can't tell me what she saw 'its the doctors job'  I only hope it is just a shoulder injury. My Father had bone cancer and his cancer started in the very same spot.   Time will tell... I will post this X ray online like I have the others once I get it.  Search this blog for ASPIE X Ray and see the needle in my foot that I never felt. And still people don't believe our pain tolerance?

Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism 

   

Climb Every Mountian

Lyrics From the 1965 Musical Sound of Music.   (hit the audio clip button on my profile)

My Successful Autism: 

Climb every mountain, search high and low,follow every by-way, every path you know.  

Unknown to me or my family was my undiscovered Autism that had colored and changed our lives. Thankfully even the experts of Nosinger Center of Ohio State (this was 1966) had no clue to contemporary autism and as such I was able to so the Autism Dream like it had worked so well so long before.  I was one of the last to sneak by with out the troubling autism Diagnosis.  Autism is both Mr/DD and Einstein and a never in print before human thought process that WILL produce normal thoughts when figured out. We followed  every path we knew and invented a few we didn't.

Climb every mountain, ford every stream,follow every Rainbow till you find your dream.  

Autism in the dark ages was sell correcting self producing and very nerve racking for the parents and ,teachers and tutors as well as my self. We ALL kept going  because every once in a awhile the genius bit would show threw and gave every one hope.  In my case the Rainbow "somewhere Over the Rain Bow"  and the Gay Identity   I was allowed to nurture created a social skills class every autistic person needs to jump the gap between normal and autism.  Someday when all of our 1000 chapters in explained Autism are figured out, by the psychology experts this identity thing will make perfect sense.

A dream that will need ,all the love you can give, everyday of your life,for as long as you live.

I was so lucky to grow up with the perfect family that never quit teaching or caring or allowing me to explore and make mistakes and be in the real world. (yes even drive) If I had been diagnosed perhaps they would have given up?  Perhaps they would have never seen the hard won joys and the odd glowing moments that motivated us all.  I fear contemporary Autism students have the very same moments and they go unnoticed and un apprecated by the autism 'machine' created to help, but doesn't.  


The song goes on in much the same lyrics as these. My point is Autism is  the last stage (or the first stage) of the human mind . It is the roots to psychology and for sure when figured out the next 1000 chapters in psychology.  Autism is the long hand version of human thought and takes place in the dream and daydream mode and it actually cancels out our optic vision (lack of eye contact) . Once we learn to think with the picture thoughts they become normal short cut thoughts like you want us to use. The same thoughts you use all the time. 

Meanwhile they are Einstein ideals and if we tap them they are inventions like autistics Alan Turing's Computer. Social functioning regular autism people are even in the mix as well, blending in a geeks in plain sight typically. Remember we are still trying to figure out Di Vinci hundreds of years after his death. The normal mind has no clue to any of this as normal people are just that normal and since they are normal they can't relate to their own deep thoughts or ours. Glossed over normal thought every one uses all the time is just a glossary and pure working autism thoughts (picture thoughts) are a dictionary.  

Sadly autism thougths as good as they are/ are NOT the perfect answer or the expected keystone to man's mind. In fact they are very primitive very cavepersonish and not very impressive. All humans think in pictures (daydreams) and never even know it as that bit is what was glossed over so we could function better.  If psychology knew all the Picture Thoughts Temple Grandin talked about and added ours that build on hers to the mix and seen how they convert to your normal short cut thoughts  the mind would no longer be a puzzle nor would autism be a puzzle.  Warning the resulting explanation will not be good for man's ego it will hit a bit too close to home and show us just how much of a cave person we still are.        

Rich Shull on the Blog Pre Rain Man Autism