What follows are two discrete photographs, each offering six individual arthroscopic images, organized in two equal columns of three, of Joseph P. Fisher’s right hip during labral repair surgery on May 31, 2023. Series 1 Image Description: a collection of six arthroscopic images of Joseph P. Fisher’s right hip taken during his labral repair surgery. …
I had my second hip surgery this past Wednesday, roughly 12 weeks after my first procedure. This time, I received a full labral reconstruction, rather than just a repair. In some not so insignificant ways, this has been reassuring, because my left hip is the one that became significantly painful at the very end of …
I am back with a modest update on my right hip labral tear recovery. I have just passed the seven-week mark from the date of surgery, but yet, I am still considered to be in the early recovery stages. My surgery date was May 31, 2023. I was taking some form of required prescription medication …
Recently, Katie Rose Guest Pryal interviewed me for an article she was writing on neurodivergent students and higher education disability access. I was grateful for the invitation. The piece is now up at The Chronicle of Higher Education under the title “Neurodivergent Students Need Flexibility, Not Our Frustration.” I invite you to read it, though …
In a fit of insomnia, I wrote the following blog post on my Goodreads blog. I then quickly feared that I might someday lose this material, so I copied it here. Enjoy. A few weeks ago, Amazon Prime recommended Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure to me. It was a movie I might like, Amazon Prime …
It has been an exceedingly long time, I know. Yet, despite how long it has been, I still have not decided how I want to style this blog. My preference is to design all of these posts using full-width Elementor layouts, because I think that they look much better than the standard blog layout. (Also, …
Joseph P. Fisher’s Blog He gets injured sometimes. Sporadic Stimulating Blogging June 7, 2023 I have tried to maintain a blog on at least three occasions. Attempt 1 In the late 2000s, shortly after completing my Ph.D., I was teaching an array of different English classes at Northern Virginia Community College-Alexandria and at The George …
I am currently a member of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for the Modern Language Association. Even though the annual MLA convention is still ten months away, we are already busy building the program for MLA 2021 in Toronto. As part of that effort, I have written a call for papers for …
The General Update Here I am on the morning of January 1, 2020—the year of the future—closing out 2019’s periodic surgery stats updates. We are officially at the point where I hope that these stats can be reconceptualized as training stats, because I do hope that I have progressed to the time when I can …
This will be quick, because I am tired. For one thing, I started that new job. For another thing, I am trying unsuccessfully to finish Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel. The latter is more exhausting and much less fulfilling than the former. This week, I passed the one year mark for my official osteochondral defect …