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I had a 9:40 appointment with my surgeon to get x-rays and evaluation of my current condition.

Usually my wife and daughter go with me. It is a fun outing.

But my wife and daughter had continuing professional education (CPE) today - 8-5.

So my wife says "I will drop you off at 7:30 and pick you up at 5:30. Be sure to pack a lunch." I hang a red cloth grocery bag around my neck and pack food and something to do for the day into it.

I got dropped off at 7:30. 18 degrees an me in shorts. I hobble inside using my walker with a red cloth grocery bag around my neck. Push the elevator button. The elevator doors don't stay open long enough for me to hobble from the button to the door. But I worked it out.

The doctor's office (8 doctors perhaps 50 chairs in the waiting room) opens at 8. I check in. A little after 8, my name is called. Of course, I am sitting out of sight of the person calling my name. But I get escorted back to a patient room hobbling all the way.

X-ray tech comes in to get me. I hobble back to his machine. He takes a dozen pictures. We talk about his machine. About my accident. We go back to my room - me hobbling all the way. He looks at the x-rays. He even shows them to me. The pelvis looks great. Left thigh looks great. Despite his assurance that the right thigh looks great to me it looks terrible - like I would need more surgery.

I go into my room while tech and a nurse look at the pictures both commenting on how good the pictures look.

Surgeon comes in a few minutes later. Tells me how good the pictures look. Says I am building bone very fast. I suggest the right thigh looks bad. He suggests cosmetic surgery to fix the ugly bones - no guarantee that I will be able to use my leg again. :)

We spoke about 15-20 minutes about the next few weeks of healing. Riding on my bicycle trainer, 50% weight bearing for a couple weeks then full weight bearing, no more brace, and massaging of my thigh.

I check out. I hobble down to the wrong people for checking out. I have to backtrack - hobbling.

I am all done and ready to go home before 9. I call my wife and tell her what happened. She says She will come by on break, call me when she gets close, and take me back to her CPE. Fine.

As I am sitting there waiting for her to call in she walks. Mad. The phone I had was on silent. I hobble out to the car. "Faster, faster." We get to the hotel for CPE. She abandons me in the parking lot - she only wanted to use my handicapped placard.

I hobble to the nearest doors. Very heavy doors. A nice fellow - who knew my wife, helped me through the doors. I found where my wife's class was and found a chair I could get up from.

One three occasions I got up and hobbled around the hotel. Looked the water feature in the lobby - waterfall, stream, and pond; fish, turtles. Walked around the 8th floor balcony. Every time I came back my wife was looking for me.

Around 12:20 my wife got fed up with me and took me home. I hobbled out to get the paper, hobbled to the mail box - got a bicycle bottom bracket tool. Dropped all my stuff inside.

Put the bicycle tool into my red cloth bag. Hobbled out to the garage and shop. Gathered up some other tools and what is left of my bicycle frame. Took the bottom bracket off. Put the parts with the rest of the salvageable parts. Put the tools away. (Made the mistake of trying to put the tools in my van. The doors were locked and I did not have keys.)

Ate lunch.

Not a bad trip to the doctor.

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Around 12:20 my wife got fed up with me and took me home.

A very patient lady in my book.

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What did you do to get yourself into this mess?

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Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and looked at himself in the water.
"Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."
He turned and walked slowly down the stream for twenty yards, splashed across it, and walked slowly back on the other side. Then he looked at himself in the water again.
"As I thought," he said. "No better from this side. But nobody minds. Nobody cares. Pathetic, that's what it is."

http://curtharding.files.wordpress.c...09/eeyore1.jpg

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We have to wait until Monday to hear the rest:

Link to a matter of public record.

Call this a sacrifice on my part. I'll be back after the ban's lifted, probably going to be 3 to 6 months for this.

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My lawyer friends tell me, "You never know what to expect in a jury trial." Promises to be interesting. And expensive.

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Whistling past the graveyard on this one;)

Doug

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Originally Posted by Captain Blight (Post 2410436)

Call this a sacrifice on my part. I'll be back after the ban's lifted, probably going to be 3 to 6 months for this.

Forever would work for me, and I'm an animal lover.

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Why didn't you just have a friend bring you?

Oh, yeah.

Steven

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Originally Posted by StevenBauer (Post 2410460)

Why didn't you just have a friend bring you?

Oh, yeah.

Steven

Kapow.

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Originally Posted by StevenBauer (Post 2410460)

Why didn't you just have a friend bring you?

Oh, yeah.

Steven

:D:D:D:D You got a couple of good laughs from this house.

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Kinda off subject, we have a judge here in Tulsa who just sentenced a convicted baby killer to ten years. Jury recomended life. Just sayin

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Originally Posted by Bobby (Post 2410503)

Kinda off subject, we have a judge here in Tulsa who just sentenced a convicted baby killer to ten years. Jury recomended life. Just sayin

I wonder if the courtroom has a ramp for wheelchairs?

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I believe the ADA requires it. So the trial starts Monday?

Steven

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What makes me think that this thread didn't turn out the way GR expected.

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Originally Posted by S/V Laura Ellen (Post 2410529)

What makes me think that this thread didn't turn out the GR expected.

Sympathy for an accident can only go so far.

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Thank you, Captain. Your sacrifice is noted.

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I find myself wondering how many millions, perhaps hundreds of millions of people there are out there whose actions seem unconscionable to me, and whether I should have compassion for any of them?

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Originally Posted by S/V Laura Ellen (Post 2410469)

:D:D:D:D You got a couple of good laughs from this house.

It was a cleverly conceived comment. No less than we expect from SB.

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Originally Posted by Lew Barrett (Post 2410590)

It was a cleverly conceived comment. No less than we expect from SB.

He's not bad for a guy from Joisey pretending to be a Yankee.....;)

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Originally Posted by JimD (Post 2410589)

I find myself wondering how many millions, perhaps hundreds of millions of people there are out there whose actions seem unconscionable to me, and whether I should have compassion for any of them?

You should have compassion for All of them.
Should I? Maybe not so much!;)

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You know what he did. Karma is a bitch.

OOOOOOOOOUCH! :eek:

:D

GR- I am glad your visit went well ... but you deserve the rest of this thread too!

:)

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Originally Posted by TimH (Post 2410406)

You know what he did. Karma is a bitch.

Karma's going kinda easy on him considering ....

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Originally Posted by Norman Bernstein (Post 2410506)

I wonder if the courtroom has a ramp for wheelchairs?

Probably. I believe it's Tennessee where they require disabled defendants to drag themselves up the stairs on their bellies :rolleyes: :o

Tennessee v. Lane

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Ain't December 7th Pearl Harbor Day?

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Hmmm...the old "too ill health to stand trial ruse"...where have I seen that lately?

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Everyone should cool it big time. The charges have been laid, the plea entered and this has been going on for donkey's. It's hardly surprising the guy's got some medical conditions.

Meanwhile how many children in the World have died for lack of a 5c Vitamin A capsule that, if delivered and taken once every few years would prevent innumerable medical conditions and deaths. This silent genocide is a far greater outrage than anything George allegedly has, could or would do by orders of magnitude beyond comprehension. Or how about all those kids in Laos still getting blown to bits by bombs from a forgotten war, for lack of funds for proper sapping activities?

Focus people! Focus!

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Originally Posted by Duncan Gibbs (Post 2410892)

Surely you don't expect us all to give up the fiction that our own self righteous clean and santized hands might actully have a few blood stains of their own on them?

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Originally Posted by Upnorth1 (Post 2410875)

Hmmm...the old "too ill health to stand trial ruse"...where have I seen that lately?

Hmmm, let's see.... another last minute continuation? I'll be checking the website :)

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Originally Posted by JimD (Post 2411011)

Surely you don't expect us all to give up the fiction that our own self righteous clean and santized hands might actully have a few blood stains of their own on them?

One more thing we're apparently guilty of, eh?

I'm feeling stretched rather thin. World Peace should probably be added to the list, as well.

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Ya know...all this nasty behavior doesn’t hurt George...it hurts the people who act nasty...

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Originally Posted by George Jung (Post 2411127)

One more thing we're apparently guilty of, eh?

I'm feeling stretched rather thin. World Peace should probably be added to the list, as well.

Sure, you can add world peace to the list if you like.

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Originally Posted by Duncan Gibbs (Post 2410892)

Everyone should cool it big time. The charges have been laid, the plea entered and this has been going on for donkey's. It's hardly surprising the guy's got some medical conditions.

George's medical issues have more to do with his getting clocked on his bicycle by a drunk driver on 10 September ("I have been testing my health care plan ..."). Whatever one's issues with George are, nobody deserves this (and, BTW George, good job wearing the brain bucket/skid lid!):

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Originally Posted by George Roberts (Post 2340105)

On Sept 10 I was out bicycling. It appears an uninsured DUI motorist decided to share my space. The result was a bunch of damage to me. I am home now. I seem to be wheel chair bound until 3 months after my next surgery.

The room charges alone for the first 2 weeks were $100K. A couple surgeries seem to be over $30K each - bils to follow. There there are charges for the staff, medication, rehab. We expect over $250K by the time all the bills are in.

I had just bought a new bicycling helmet. Perhaps the best $100 I have spent in the recent past. The styrofoam seemed to have broken into a lot of large pieces. The large pieces seemed to be micro cracked.

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And as long as we're looking for things to feel guilty about, remember this: If you eat chocolate, you're probably complicit in slavery. Child slavery, to be more specific.

Mmmmmmm.... who knew misery and suffering could taste so darrk and rich?

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Originally Posted by Captain Blight (Post 2411264)

didn't know that...I don't have any diamonds though...no ivory nuther

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Originally Posted by S/V Laura Ellen (Post 2410529)

What makes me think that this thread didn't turn out the way GR expected.

Are you sure it didnt? I think some one should punch the button. POOF

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All right, George, you've got the attention you crave. Now poof the thread and be done with it.