Oct
3
Secure health insurance quotes
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My father gave us a health scare this past summer. Or, to be more accurate, his doctors and hospital staff screwed up and gave us a scare. He wound up spending the better part of 6 weeks in the hospital. I blogged a bit about my frustrations with the situation back, in June, when I was commuting to Brooksville every weekend.
He retired last year, and took his COBRA benefits which were still in effect this summer. However, they expired last month, and he’s sitting here with a pre-existing condition and ineligible for Medicare until next March. He’s had a horrible time finding health insurance, and even the lousy policy he did find isn’t going to pay for the surgery he should be having in the next few months. Now, he has to wait until Medicare kicks in to do the follow-up surgery.
He’s hunted high and low with agents and over the internet. I’m sending him this health insurance site, so he can continue looking for a better, more affordable policy.
Aug
23
Heard at work
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I’ve never seen cheese do THAT!
You better be careful, she still has that restraining order against you.
My dad went up for my grandmother’s hip replacement surgery and is bringing her hip back to hang on the wall of his shed.
Jun
11
Where I spent my summer vacation
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Got back from another whirlwind trip to Brooksville to visit my father, who has been in the hospital for several weeks recovering from two separate surgeries, the last one gone bad. He’s doing better now, thankfully, and they released him this evening. Five days ago they told us he’d be there for two to four more weeks.
Yeah, doctors know what they’re talking about (not).
Ok, I admit that was a little snarky. But, there were a lot of mistakes made.
I had surgery in April here in Jacksonville. It went well, despite the surgeon getting a surprise when he cut me open, which required the surgery to take over twice as long as normal. But, he was competent.
[EDITED ESPECIALLY SNARKY, UNFAIR COMMENT]
Q. What do you call the person that graduated at the bottom of his medical school class?A. Doctor.
Give me a break, docs, if you knew what a clusterf— his surgery and recovery was, you’d understand. Our MD friends were beside themselves with each new development. It wasn’t just a pissed-off family, it was the physician’s colleagues that were telling us how bad this was.
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Apr
18
So?
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Whaddya think?
Florida-y, like my wife says? I just need to know that I hit the right balance of Florida flavor without crossing over into gay-ness. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And, even if I did cross over into gay-ness, I’m man enough to pull it off.
So… there…
I don’t know if I’ll be around much tomorrow. I’m supposed to go in for gallbladder surgery tomorrow afternoon, and I’m on call for when the surgeon can squeeze me in among his other surgeries. But we’ll see…
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Apr
17
Going in for surgery
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If you’ve read my diet blog or poker blog, you know I’ve had some health issues lately. My doc called this morning to confirm that the HIDA scan said my gallbladder was not functioning and surgery was necessary. Going for a surgical consult later this week, with an eye to removing it at Baptist-South in Jacksonville in a week or so. Sucks on a lot of levels, not least of which is I’m in a new job – I’m ok on insurance, but not ok on personal time-off hours and I don’t qualify for short-term disability. So, let’s hope for a laproscopic procedure instead of an open procedure - the difference in recovery time is 1 week vs. 4-6 weeks.
