{"id":1447,"date":"2020-05-22T06:27:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayctheriot.com\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2020-05-22T06:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:27:18","slug":"comin-home-lynyrd-skynyrd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"Comin&#8217; Home, Lynyrd Skynyrd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jayctheriot.com\/images\/image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A fantastic, but hated, English Composition teacher of mine one submitted her belief that you can&#8217;t write that something is unexplainable and then write about it. I think that is why I quit writing about a year or so ago. What I was writing about became unexplainable.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll simply say, the pain of my muscles and nerves have not let up. The levels still roller-coaster, reaching heights previously unpredictable. However, on another note, the situation has educated me a bit, I think.<\/p>\n<p>I affirm this is genetic and that my father had it and at least one of my daughters are developing it. Not one of my siblings believe me. Heck, they don&#8217;t believe that I have anything more than osteoarthritis. The Veterans Administration has reached out to me and in June I will be admitted to a clinic specially for those who have ALS (Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease). While it is not believed that I actually have Lou Gehrig&#8217;s, the VA feels that I would benefit greatly from the group of specialists they have treating the group. When they told me this, I cried. My wife and I will no longer be forced to lead this fight blindly. I care less about my life, as it is already destroyed. I don&#8217;t want this to affect my children. We must identify this and build a bulk of information so they have a fighting chance.<\/p>\n<p>Lynyrd Skynyd has a song, &#8220;Comin&#8217; Home,&#8221; with prophetic lyrics, as many of their songs do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">It&#8217;s been so long since I&#8217;ve been gone<br \/>Another day might be too long for me<br \/>Traveling around I&#8217;ve had my fill<br \/>Of broken dreams and dirty deals<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\"><br \/>A concrete jungle surrounding me<br \/>Many nights I&#8217;ve slept out in the streets<br \/>I paid my dues and I changed my style<br \/>Seen hard times, all over now<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">I want to come home. It&#8217;s been so long since I&#8217;ve been away<br \/>And please, don&#8217;t blame me &#8217;cause I&#8217;ve tried<br \/>I&#8217;ll be coming home soon to your love, to stay<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">I miss old friends that I once had<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">Times ain&#8217;t changed and I&#8217;ll be glad when I go home<br \/>I don&#8217;t know why the thought came to me<br \/>But why I&#8217;m here I really can&#8217;t see, and now<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb WRZytc OULBYb\">I want to come home. It&#8217;s been so long since I&#8217;ve been away<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb WRZytc OULBYb\">And please, don&#8217;t blame me &#8217;cause I&#8217;ve tried<br \/>I&#8217;ll be coming home soon to your love, to stay<br \/>Coming\u2026<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I take the meaning of &#8220;Home&#8221; to mean the old times before their fame and isolation from their old lives. That is where I am. I want to &#8220;go home&#8221; to a time where I could say I loved my life, where my life loved me in return.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n<p>Jay C. Theriot<\/p>\n<p>PS: I am not suicidal, just weary of the path I am on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fantastic, but hated, English Composition teacher of mine one submitted her belief that you can&#8217;t write that something is unexplainable and then write about it. I think that is why I quit writing about a year or so ago. What I was writing about became unexplainable. I&#8217;ll simply say, the pain of my muscles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}