my carpal tunnel seems to be healing well. i am scheduled to havemy left wrist done on dec 4th, but, in the meantime, kevin is going to have to have orthoscopic surgery on his knee. he is having it done the day before thanksgiving since he has 4 days off in a row to get rested up and then go back to work on monday. since he is no longer on a salary and has no sick leave or vacation anymore, we have to take advantage of any time that he already has off if he needs something done.
our orthoped is a really generous and kind man. when kevin told him that he had the day after thanksgiving off, he was willing to work kevin in for surgery, even though it was kind of a last minute deal.
when i needed my wrists done, kevin told him he didn’t know how long it would take us to pay him off and he said not to worry about that. we pay him about 10.00 dollars a month and he doesn’t say a word—in fact, if anything gets said to us about our bill it makes him upset.
we really need to get kevin to an endocrinologist. he quit his thyroid meds and his levels dropped really fast. his face was starting to swell up. he had told me his tooth was bothering him and i told him it looked like his face was swelling, but he didn’t believe me. it was swelling alright, but not from the tooth. the doc put him on the same dose of meds he had been on last year and isn’t planning on checking him for 3 months. the other docs would always check at one month.
in the meantime, he got a large chip in his bridge. he has two upper bridges that span 3 teeth each. when the dentist was checking the chip, he discovered that the whole bridge on one side was loose! the next day, kevin tells me that one of the crowns on his bridge had come off. i looked at it and realized it wasn’t part of his bridge—it was a crown on the tooth right behind one of the bridges!!!! the poor guy has had a rough go of it recently. the dentist told him that he is going to warranty the entire bridge, so hopefully it won’t cost us anything to get everything fixed back up again.
lots of nitpicky little problems—i’m greatful they are just little problems—gotta look at all the things i can be greatful for!!!!!
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I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
