At your ripe old age of going on three, you won’t be reading this, and even if it were read to you it doesn’t have the pizazz of The Cat In The Hat. But, I’ve been thinking of this for some time now and it is time I made the commitment.
Bayou Renaissance Man has posted an excellent article about the Chicago situation, taking Mayor Daly to task for his numskull approach to governance, this being the weekend following their 32-shootings and 2 stabbings weekend.
In that article he relates a telling episode in the time following hurricane Katrina. I’ve quoted that part below, but you really should read his full article, here.
Crystal recently had a garage/yard sale. She has posted twice about it, once pre-sale and once post-sale. They are both interesting, and the second is a hoot.
If you have ever had a garage sale, have had thoughts of doing so, or know of anyone contemplating same, these are each a short must-read.
OK, up front, I’m telling you there is quite a bit of reading to be done here. Well, not really here, but at the places I’m going to suggest to you.
See two articles below.
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Finally! The for-everyone (or is it no one?) pill is now available.
Contractor oversight by the the Army Corps of Engineers seems to be lacking, but their doubletalk is going just fine.
4 Investigates: Floodwalls stuffed with newspaper?
11:54 PM CDT on Thursday, April 24, 2008
Ahem. It is an Orthofix Spinal-Stim Bone Growth Stimulator, Model 2212.
As I said, gizmo.
I took the back brace off, as I am allowed to do while sitting, because my T-shirt was soaking wet, even in the air-conditioned house. Wearing a wicking (Cool-Max – I love ‘em) T-shirt under that brace does no good for wicking purposes, but it is smoother and softer than a regular T, so it feels a little better.
Interesting what a little research will turn up…
To the insurance web site. Check claims, authorizations, and approvals.
Hmm. There’s one, approved April 10th, for a company in McKinney, Texas with no name, but it has an address.
Plug address into Google.
Chamber of Comerce listing for McKinney.
A few days ago I finished reading yet another book, nonfiction, as is my norm, that REALLY got to me. It was oh-dark-thirty as I neared the end of the book and I just needed to, well, I don’t know. But there was an inbound message on the left-side monitor as I bumped the keyboard tray and it was from a good sounding board, especially at that time of night.
The meds worked nicely this morning, thankfully. [Well, it’s past midnight now, so make that yesterday morning.]
HOWEVER, despite the fact that a sleep period for me is usually 3 to 4 hours, I didn’t wake up until after 1530 and at that I slept through at least one phone call, because there was a message on the answering machine. I also slept through two Skype alerts on the computer because my son called me twice.
Yesterday was my first day out since surgery, other than walks down the sidewalk and back. Well, except for a the ride from hell I had to take early on, prematurely actually, all the way, far, to the neurosurgeon’s office to take care of some stitches that weren’t reacting favorably with my body, or the other way around.
It was a very dark night, not a cloud in the sky, yet there were no stars and no moon. I remember it like it was last night, but it was actually the night of March 26th, just a few weeks ago. I remember every detail.
Yet another senseless and preventable accident that will haunt a family forever.
A caveat: I seem to be regressing some in my surgical recovery (Translation: Due to increasing pain I’m hitting the muscle relaxers and pain pills a bit harder again, hopefully just one of those valleys in the peaks and valleys of recovery), so I hope this makes sense. I KNOW I won’t get it done in one sitting, too, so if it all fits together and flows it will be an absolute miracle.
I’m considering blogging my overall experience with four spine surgeries, two cervical and two lumbar, all with fusion, in order to possibly make the experience easier for others. I do believe I have some helpful suggestions to make surgical recovery easier for those facing such operations in the future.
