{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Function Recovery Scorecard:", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/659279116992937984/", "html": "<h1>Function Recovery Scorecard:</h1><ul><li><b>Psychological: A++. </b>I am tangibly much better than I used to be, less anxious, and more personable, and the loss of the intensity I used to generate from all that internal conflict is largely replaceable. Turning bi is \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_/\u00af, but I did actively want this once upon a time, and more importantly left myself in a healthy place to process.</li><li><b>Legs: A-.</b> Now that I&rsquo;ve got them mostly back up to function, raised-arch is a subtly more powerful and efficient way to stand and walk than flatfooted, and my ankles haven&rsquo;t had this much lateral stability since 2008. I can still do my more spinny, reboundy way of walking but it&rsquo;s no longer a more efficient way to shift momentum so I don&rsquo;t.</li><li><b>Hands: B.</b> It was like I had on -2 DEX mittens, then -1, now it&rsquo;s just -1 fingersocks. Parts where the fingertip numbness plays in, like identifying and manipulating objects in a pocket, are the worst remaining.</li><li><b>Eyes: C+. </b>Seeing in real 3D is neat: everything looks like one of those magic eye pictures, and I can tell distances now. On the other hand things still look weird and tilt-shifty and difficult to estimate motion in peripheral. Also when I was seeing 2 images overlapped I got in the habit of closing my right eye and I&rsquo;m still doing it in busy environments because resolving into 3D is still imperfect and taxing.</li><li><b>Voice: C-.</b> Certainly because I get least practice here. Even when I&rsquo;m not slurring my words I talk with a stumbling flow that leads bartenders to cut me off; in particular the edges of my tongue and talking out of the side of my mouth and thus on the phone are a problem, but at least now I only need one request for clarity before I hypercorrect enough for the rest of the call.</li></ul>"}