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Week Seven ~ Full of Surprises

10/9/2012

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Bob went beardless

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Tim, too.

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then almost hairless

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As Well as Me.

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But then ... excrement occurred.

Well, it actually started about 3 weeks ago, but it came to a proverbial "head" on Tuesday the 25th.  Both Bob and I have experienced a great deal of physical pain from walking on the concrete, and the limited number of opportunities to sit during the ten hour work day.  Bob's back, however, had been getting worse, despite his heavy use of muscle rub and icy hot and patches.  Tuesday morning he woke up not feeling too well, but we went to work anyway.  He tried to last for the entire day, but there were just too many large and heavy orders, and he shocked the heck outta me by announcing at 1:30 in the afternoon that he couldn't make it to five and that we needed to go home.  So home we went ... dosed ourselves with pain killers and muscle rubs, and hoped for the best.

Wednesday we managed to get up and go to Wal-Mart, where we got the haircuts in the salon that's in the front, but even that was too much and we ended up in the ER that night.
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This is our second trip to the ER in the 7 weeks.  Bob got an ear infection early on, and we ended up in the ER for that, but didn't miss any work.  For a small town, Coffeyville's ER is amazing.  Coming from Crescent City, where an ER visit is a minimum of 6 to 12 hrs, and where we've stayed for up to 25 hours without his being admitted, to get in and out of this ER in under 5 hrs was just a blessing.  And both times the doctor administered meds there, in case we couldn't get the prescriptions until the next day.  Gotta LOVE that part.

So the Dr. thinks at first that it's a kidney stone ... blood work, urine samples, and a cat scan later, they can't find one so Dr. decides it must be a muscle spasm, and gives him a couple of shots, two prescriptions, and instructs him to followup on Friday at his office.  That's something else we liked about this hospital:  the ER is staffed by local doctors, not rent-a-medics. 

BUT ... he can't drive given these meds, and he can't be left alone, so ... we both have to miss work.  So we do the mandatory call in, and take our point-lumps.  You accumulate points for missing work, and when you reach a certain number of points, they give you the boot.

Friday he's worse, and the doctor won't release him for work (Gee, ya think?) of course, and changes his meds again and schedules a follow up for Monday.  Wal Mart pharmacy didn't carry one of the prescriptions, so we had to drive back into town to another pharmacy for one, and then back to Walmart for the other, and of course one of the meds isn't covered by his insurance so we're out of pocket $64.

Monday he saw two doctors, as the one from the ER brought in a second doctor as a consult, and they both said he should go back to TX to see his regular doctors, given his medical history.  The alternative would be for them to admit him to the hospital and start running tests.  Given that  his Scott and White insurance probably wouldn't cover that, being out of plan and all, it became a no brainer to get ourselves back to TX as quickly as we could.

That wasn't as easy as you might have expected ... more coming in the next blog post.

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Elaine
10/25/2012 09:06:28 am

Just wanted to say that I really like the haircuts!! Bob looks like a totally different guy -- very "professional" . If I didn't know that Tim was 33 years old I'd never guess it -- he looks like someone in his teens/20's in that photo. And of course I love you with short hair, plus it's so easy to take care of. Do you ever wear your hair in bangs?? I think they'd look really good on you. Elaine :)

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