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Perdido in the VA

By AAN Staff
january 24, 2003  05:23 pm
Perdido in the VA
Gambit Weekly columnist Ronnie Virgets suffered a stroke on Nov. 24 and entered the Veterans Administration Hospital on Perdido Street in New Orleans for treatment and recovery. One month later he began to write again "I remember reading somewhere that 'perdido' translates from the Spanish as 'lost,'" he says. "Everything here is the tug-o-war between feel-good cheerleader motivation ("you're making great progress with that leg -- why, two weeks ago, you couldn't flex that foot even once") and the reality of just how humiliatingly helpless you have become."
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