It’s Been an Interesting Trip

I’m Back!
Well, kinda.
It would be understating things just a tad if I said that my body hadn’t just taken a pretty big hit. I guess that you can’t have your belly cut open and 12″ of colon removed then get back to business as usual.
Hell, it’s taken over a week and a half just to get one semi-formed turd!
(Ok, I get it…TMI.)
But, you get the idea.
I am still quite a way off from being anywhere close to physically well.

The week I spent in hospital was rough. I tried to share some of what was going on with friends on Facebook.
I had a lot of fluids going in, but not much coming out.
This caused the staff to get concerned.
Then, I began to get sick. Nausea. Not good with a belly wound.
They stuck an NG tube up my nose and into my stomach to help relieve the distress.
There is nothing fun about that. Not at all.
Eventually, after about a day and a half, it appeared that things had settled down. They pulled the tube and I began to take clear liquids again.
I had finally turned a corner and was on my way forward toward recovery again.

But, it’s slow. I’ve had to purposely keep from doing too much.
That has included writing here and spending much time on social media.

What all of this down time has allowed is time to reflect.
Now, for those of you who know me, that can be a dangerous thing.
Giving me time to spend inside of my own head, well, weird stuff can happen.
So, I hope to spend time discussing some of these thoughts here over the next little while.
I don’t know that I’ll be able to write every day. That’s going to entirely depend on how I feel. Right now I have to listen to my body. And, if it says, “Whoa! Not today!” Then, so be it.
But, as the name of this blog states, I am here to push boundaries. I want to offer alternatives to accepted norms. I ask questions and don’t necessarily expect answers.
And, I want to spend more time working to speak Truth to Power.
People have for too long been marginalized and held down because of religion and other human-created constraints. There are a lot of other people, like me, who have seen enough crap and are compelled to speak up.
So, that’s kinda where I hope to head in the next little while with a particular focus on critique from within concerning the Christian Church.
It needs it.

Badly.