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Sometimes I just feel like a character in one of those old Looney Tunes cartoons--I saw a tiny snowball on the top of the hill and now it's bigger than my house.
I'm actually speechless. I've been sitting here trying to find something to say but you described such a dreadful night (even with its moment of humor) and then followed up with such bad news that I'm just flummoxed. I just hope that your next shift actually is the breeze last night started out to be and that the water company quickly resolves the water issue. Your poor SD - I wish him the best. Back surgery is no fun - I've been there.
I have no idea what his insurance will cover (he has a different insurance than I do), so I don't know if it's even possible for an in-patient procedure. And, of course, I have trouble with the idea of him working on his physical therapy without prodding. I'll suggest it though.
My brother had back surgery a while back, with good results. He tells me that he knows other people who've had much worse results, and when I asked him what the difference was in their treatment he said there were two things:
And, despite the fact that my brother had a good outcome, every once in a while his back will begin acting up (this is to be expected), but because of all the P.T. he got he has the exercises he needs to be able to take care of his back when it needs extra care.
- As the son of a physical therapist, my brother knew enough to insist that he get physical therapy along with the surgery, and to pay attention to what the physical therapist told him. Those who had worse outcomes didn't.
- Because of this need for P.T., my brother made sure his surgery done at an in-patient clinic that does everything, provides consultations with the therapist before surgery, does the surgery, and then provides long term physical therapy after the surgery is done. The people he knew who had poorer outcomes went to clinics that did surgery only. After that the patients were on their own.
Possible, but don't jump to conclusions. And if that is it, it's very responsible of her to stick to guinea pigs rather than getting a cat and trying to turn it into a vegetarian, the way some people do.
Just make sure she doesn't have any food sensitivities you need to know about. I'm neither vegetarian nor vegan, but I'm sensitive to casein, which is a milk protein. This is vastly different from lactose intolerance, which is fairly easy to deal with; it means I can't have any milk product, including cheese, butter, yogurt, cream cheese, ad infinitum, and I can't eat anything made with any of these things. Needless to say, I don't eat out a lot.
Margret