Its been awhile since I reported on Billy.
Lots of you out there in CyberLand and IRL are inquiring and now I find that I simply must take the time to report in before you all get too aggressive with me.
The very good news, at least for now, is that Billy no longer is captive in that iron lung. We don't know how long this will last but we do know that for now the treatment is working. He presently takes a very expensive drug daily commonly known as the K432M protocol and has to do an injection in his butt once a month.
Billy was eligible for Obamacare aka ACA due to his lack of income and of course is issued to him at no cost to him. He was hoping he would have been a poster child for the Affordable Care Act and had dreams of going to the White House for photo op with the President...but so far no incoming phone calls from them on his government subsidized cell phone of which he currently has five of them. Don't even get me started on SNAP. But bottom line Billy is once again fairly close to normal.
He recently met a girl several years older than him. Her name is Sylvia.
A fine German girl he met by chance.
Of course with a name like Von Crippe, you can assume that Billy does know some rudimentary German. He learned German in the family home from his Dad, Otto and his Uncle Rudy. His mom,Priscilla, not being from Amana really never spoke much German. Well she knew a few words that she thought were cute. Like ...fotze and kommen sie her mitt die hosea in der hand. But you are not going to get to far in Germany with a few words or phrases.Billy tries to communicate with her in German and that is endearing to her. However his vocabulary is limited and they mostly speak English. She very recently went back to her home town in Germany to reinforce her language skills and to organize a birthday party for her father, He misses her daily attention to him!
As you can see from the photos that Billy shared with me, she is a striking woman. Billy says she is very nurturing to him and was helpful in getting him out of the lung and being erect again. (whatever that means)
She has been teaching him some Yoga poses which he finds difficult at best since he still has balance issues. She insists that practice is key to his total rehab. I think they will be good for each other.
Practice, practice, practice
