Now we?ve been without a phone almost a week. It feels like it?s been longer. A rep came out from the home security alarm place and did nothing to help us. In fact, he was pretty snotty to Linda. TB and I weren?t home but that was no reason for the rep to act like a jerk.
TB called them back and someone is coming out again first thing in the morning.
So where were we? TB had an appointment with Dr. Farrell, the orthopedic surgeon who?s operated on his shoulder two times now. Dr. Farrell is a very good doctor and doesn?t want TB to be in so much pain. Now that he knows laparoscopic surgery isn?t an open, he wants to open TB?s shoulder and stitch the whole rotator cuff. He didn?t care that the Third Party Carrier (TPC) from Hell is taking the position that the doctors can?t do anything more for TB. So when all the letters have been sent and the surgery approved, TB will be back in the outpatient surgical center for the third time. We?re thinking this will be at the end of June.
This was good and bad news rolled up together. On the one hand, TB wants to be free of all that pain and so do I. It?s hard to see the one you love in pain. On the down side, though, it means a long recuperation and there?s going to be a lot of pain right after the surgery.
TB?s got an attorney working on his case. We?re hoping the TPC will reconsider their outrageous decision and pay workman?s comp again.
Well, it should be an ?interesting? summer.
Anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Agree or disagree?
There is no disagreeing with this. I?ve lived with variations of this quote for the last 20-odd years. The original quote by Friedrich Nietzsche ? the philosopher ? goes like this: What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Sometimes I appreciate the hard times I?ve been through because it helps me survive the next crisis. There is always going to be a crisis. There?s always going to be good times followed by really bad times. Rich and I had several variations on Nietzsche?s quote. We?d say that which doesn?t kill us makes us wish it had. Or we?d say that which doesn?t kill us builds our characters and boy, are we a couple of characters!
But getting back to whether or not I agree with Nietzsche ? of course I do. If it?s bad enough to kill me and I survive, I?ve got to be stronger, right? It just goes to show ya! ;)
What's your favorite board game and why?
My favorite board game is Parcheesi or Sorry. I enjoy them because they?re fun, competitive and relatively mindless! I mean, what is there to the game? Roll the dice and move your man around the board. There?s no heavy strategizing like you?d have to do with Risk or Chess. The only game as fun and as mindless might be Candy Land. The game won?t ever end, you just go round and round and round. Sometimes it?s just a lot of fun not to have to think real hard.