Yesterday I went to lunch with my Mom and Uncle T which was nice and then as soon as I arrived home, the misses and I headed up to Vail for our 1 month post op check up with the great doctors we are blessed to have.
It was a beautiful day in Vail with the temp around 75 degrees and the sun shinning. We left the boys with Daniella who took them to Subway and then the pool. We finally got in to see the crew (nurses and doctors) around 3:45. First we see Diane, who’s a nurse, then Eric who’s Dr. Corenman’s long time assistant doc and then finally Dr. Corenman. The long and short of it is that the misses is doing great. Normally they don’t see patients until 6 weeks after the procedure the misses had done as sometimes it takes that long to see any improvement.
After meeting with Eric and Don (Dr. Corenman) they said if she goes back to work, they wanted to further restrict her to only 4 hours a day. When Eric found out she only worked a day or two a week, he asked if she really needed to go back as even though they could release her, the repetitive motion could aggravate and set off her head again. We said our number one concern, more than money is keeping her healthy. After all, you only have one body and one spine. He left the room and said that he wanted to talk to Don. A few minutes later Don came in and the first thing he said is “you should quit”. He went on to explain that if it was his wife, he would recommend this. He said that the motion of checking and bagging groceries wasn’t good for someone with her neck. He said leave that to the 20 year olds with young healthy necks. They both also explained the process of workman’s comp and told us leaving her job in no way has anything to do with her receiving future medical treatment from workmans comp. This was our number 1 concern, getting future medical expenses covered and keeping the misses healthy, that’s it, not the $100 a week they pay although don’t get us wrong, all money helps.
So the misses is in the shower and in about 45 minutes will head over and submit her resignation. We joked that we should buy $5000 worth of groceries right before to save the 20% one more time! We’ll actually miss the discount more than the $10.50 an hour. In the end, we feel we’re making the correct decision based on her medical condition and the doctors advice. We’ll have to figure out some way to make up the lost income and hopefully increase it but we’re pretty resourceful, we’ll think of something. She goes back on July 31st for another follow up appointment with her doctors.
Now onto the other news, I’m happy to say that despite $60 million dollars spent by Unions all across the country, the Republican Governor of the great state of Wisconsin overwhelmingly won the recall election yesterday. You might remember last year he had to re-structure union jobs where school bus drivers were making over $150K a year with pensions of over a $100K a year and the Democrats went crazy. I guess if I was  bus driver making $150K a year, I’d want to keep that job too! Last year democratic senators left the state and went into hiding in Illinois instead of doing their jobs and staying to vote on state policy. Then they organized this recall election with Unions all across the country actually pulling the strings. Well, the people prevailed and did the right thing. The facts are this Governor slashed the state deficit by billions and brought business and industry back to Wisconsin. The only people who opposed him were the ones who were over paid in the first place, I mean come on, a school bus driver making over $150K a year! Enough said.
Now I have nothing against Unions except the fact that it’s usually the workers who don’t benefit, just the big bosses. They even bused in hundreds of people from Michigan and paid them to vote and go protest. You’ll notice Obama stayed as far away from this as possible. He didn’t go to the state to campaign for the democrat and when he tweeted his support, instead of his usual signature he signed it “bo”. Maybe his dog Bo actually was the one tweeting and not him! Oh well, the people of Wisconsin made the right decision and the state will continue on the road of recovery. Hopefully the rest of the Country can follow suit.
Sorry if I offended any of you, I’m really trying to restrain myself but this in your face election with ads and news running 24 hours a day is hard to ignore. Hopefully after the election, the country can begin to come together and heal.
Take care and God Bless.
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