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Dear Readers, my dispatches will always be free and open to everyone. I am unable to use my hands and I’m writing, via dictation, with the help of my family. If you could become a paid subscriber and support me, it’d mean so much.

I am waiting for my hypnotist to call. He’s been recommended by a friend; I have worked with him before, years ago when I had a writers’ block. It did actually work insofar as I was able to continue as a writer, fortunately or unfortunately for the public. Let’s hope he has magical healing powers this time as well.

For the first couple of weeks after my accident on Boxing Day in Rome, I was drugged and pretty much knocked out from the trauma of the accident though I conceived the idea of this blog was writing well and almost continuously. Then I was moved here to this rehab clinic in order to receive physiotherapy twice a day.

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