Residual Funtional Capacity...

Residual

functional 

capacity

These words are LOUD in my head. 

I gave the Doctor the RFC form to fill out 

before he was discharged. 

Residual 

Functional

Capacity...

The words finally hit me. 

It didn’t when I was in 

‘need the doc to fill out’ 

mode. 

But now... 

it is loud and clear. 

What hateful words. 

Residual 

Functional 

Capacity 

Residual. 

c : an internal after effect of experience

or activity 

that influences 

later behavior; 

especially : a disability remaining from 

a disease or operation.

Functional.

performing 

or 

able to perform 

a regular function

EX. The flashlight 

was still functional 

after I had dropped it.

Capacity.

an individual's 

mental 

or 

physical ability

This is what 

the Doctor filled out 

before he was discharged,

so we could submit  It to 

social security. 

And so this is just 

the heavy reality. 

He calls us to him, 

through the day, 

just to get a hug. 

Take nothing for granted. 

Ya. 

That’s what we are 

trying to learn. 

I think he has 

embraced it fully. 

And we are 

right behind him...

Trying to embrace that,

but unwilling to;

worried that

if we do,

we will lose him

And so we fight...

every inch of the way. 

Not that we 

do not want to 

embrace it,

but that we are 

unwilling

to let him go. 

Because we love him

So much

and aren’t ready to

live life without him,

whatever that life

may look like. 

Heavy sigh...

Shell