Can’t Wait till 2013, (very long vent)
Can’t Wait till ’13, (long vent)
2012 has not been a good year for me so far, and it never seems to end.
About 10 years ago, my wife had always wanted to live in Fla (again). We took equity out of our house up north and bought a fixer-upper place in Lakeland. No rush, plenty of time to do the work and hire help for the little things I could not do. I got it fixed up enough to make the move and ordered a truck. The night before the truck arrived, my wife changed her mind.
So the plan changed, fix the Lakeland place up some more to sell it. One of my boys came down one summer to help, but he would not listen and got sick. Instead of getting it on the market I was taking him to ER because he refused my simple advice to keep hydrated. (Even adult kids think they know it all).
Over the years I got ripped off again and again. The local cops were worthless. They knew the perps, even used the perps and harassed me. The locals up here had spread rumors down there I was somehow behind half a dozen dirty cop busts in as many months after buying the place down there. After they learned my it was false they back off some. I even ended up helping a detective on an unrelated case.
My ability to work on the place even at a slow place declined as my MS got worse. One fall my wife called the furnace up here failed and I need to come back. I was barely able to walk so ready for a few days sitting driving.
In 2006 I had fallen and tore my shoulder in one of those I’ve fallen and wondered if I could get up. That spring I got sick on the trip back I was even worse, again, and so was my diabetes. I called my wife to get me an apt with the doctor she had me set up with. I made it home, no Dr. apt and landed in ER that evening. After my BP stabilized it get lost your neuro issues were just diabetes related, aka same o, same o story again.
Saw my eye doc as scheduled, he refused to see me since I was NOT seeing the doctor he wanted me to be under the care of, same one my wife had said she set up and had not. Did get into a new doc, set up with a shoulder surgeon and ENT. The ENT did a MRI and other tests, but ignored numerous classic Dawson’s fingers, eye muscle abnormals and brushed it off as a unknown CNS issue (no neuro referral) despite more falls and another fall needing surgery in under a year.
In 2009 finally a new eye doc opened the MS can-o-worms and was Dx’d Jan 2010. Now I knew HEAT was an issue, so Florida was even more of a problem. I tried getting a real estate agent to sell the house, but nobody wanted to bother with anything under $100k. I tried everyone I knew in Fla, the only one that helped was a old Navy buddy, but that agent would not bother either.
Last winter I got ripped off yet again. They tried to steal my lawn tractor but got it stuck and was damaged from sitting out in the rain. They stole my garden tiller, my garden trailer and utility trailer, as if stealing my cameras and electronics and more years before was not enough.
Believe it not, the preceding was a very very abbreviated overview of preceding years.
Now its 2012. My house, which was to be a stepping-stone to better things, is now a money pit. Taxes and insurance nearly triple, not to mention gas prices and I just cannot do much anymore. My wife’s income and health coverage down, but at least I have been on Medicare since 1985, but expenses thru the roof. Back in Jan my fam doc called, get your butt to ER your kidney #s are off. Then a week later I fall in the driveway and could not get up. SO meatwagon ride to ER. Xray crew from h311 says no broken bones just bruised muscles.
2 Days later I am making brown instead of yeller/clear water and cannot get out of my la-z-boy even with son’s help, so 911 again. Better Xray crew and 5 broken ribs, low Ox and in acute kidney failure, so its morphine (pain candy works great), Ox and a few days on the Nurse Ratchet training ward.
My MS doc sends me to VA kidney doc and their urology clinic. Kidney doc, oh we will worry about what is causing your kidney issues AFTER they fail and urology even worse. Despite knowing I had a distended bladder and voiding issues I could not get even the time of day. Two visits each, $50 a pop ($200 total) VA co-pay for worse than NOTHING. Few days after last VA urology clinic apt, I am in trouble, and my non-va urologist changed practice I could only get in to a NP.
I see the urology NP, scan showed over 300ml PVR so its instant self-cath lesson (a wild embarrassing & scary experience that ended up my refusing to go to ER) and scheduled for bladder testing. I try and make a trip down to Fla before my mid Oct surgery, but my car strangely (sabotage 2 cars have problems at same time just past welcome station?) looses all its tyranny fluid half way down. I get it patched up and make it home barely.
The cheapest repair I can get is a (not cheap) used/salvaged tyranny and what choice do I have. My limited budget is blown, I have to delay paying bills, even late making house payment here, just to keep our car on the road so I can get my wife to work and save that little income. I go to figure out bills for Oct. Fla light bill down, hooray? No, it seems my place has been ripped off yet again (called a neighbor about it). I cannot get down there for now to check on things even if I could afford it.
Today it was the straw that broke the proverbial camels back. I was having lunch and my stand by my la-z-boy had been moved (again/often) and my glass went to the floor instead. I NEVER move my stand and the cat or dog don’t either. My walker I use to help get out of my La-z-boy also gets moved often and not by me.
I know all this seems silly but with my (R-better) leg pain, probably varicose veins again and new problem with my right shoulder (unknown recent issue) it’s just getting to be a heavy load at the moment. Oops, just got another bit of mail. A DMD info dinner invite, but its for the day I expect to be released from the hospital, and I have a kidney disease class (non-VA of course) scheduled the day before my upcoming surgery.
Of course the VA is dragging its feet as usual. I gave up getting care while in the Navy, tried in the mid ‘80s, sent to shrinks (all in head U know) so gave up. 25 yrs later finally Dx’d by VA docs who both agree (plus outside docs) its service connected but SC case still pending. When I rains in my Gomer world, it’s a catagory-13.
I am so LUCKY, my lucky number is 13, can 2013 come fast enough?
Sorry it’s so long.
Even Gomers needed to blow off steam and vent…
2012 has not been a good year for me so far, and it never seems to end.
About 10 years ago, my wife had always wanted to live in Fla (again). We took equity out of our house up north and bought a fixer-upper place in Lakeland. No rush, plenty of time to do the work and hire help for the little things I could not do. I got it fixed up enough to make the move and ordered a truck. The night before the truck arrived, my wife changed her mind.
So the plan changed, fix the Lakeland place up some more to sell it. One of my boys came down one summer to help, but he would not listen and got sick. Instead of getting it on the market I was taking him to ER because he refused my simple advice to keep hydrated. (Even adult kids think they know it all).
Over the years I got ripped off again and again. The local cops were worthless. They knew the perps, even used the perps and harassed me. The locals up here had spread rumors down there I was somehow behind half a dozen dirty cop busts in as many months after buying the place down there. After they learned my it was false they back off some. I even ended up helping a detective on an unrelated case.
My ability to work on the place even at a slow place declined as my MS got worse. One fall my wife called the furnace up here failed and I need to come back. I was barely able to walk so ready for a few days sitting driving.
In 2006 I had fallen and tore my shoulder in one of those I’ve fallen and wondered if I could get up. That spring I got sick on the trip back I was even worse, again, and so was my diabetes. I called my wife to get me an apt with the doctor she had me set up with. I made it home, no Dr. apt and landed in ER that evening. After my BP stabilized it get lost your neuro issues were just diabetes related, aka same o, same o story again.
Saw my eye doc as scheduled, he refused to see me since I was NOT seeing the doctor he wanted me to be under the care of, same one my wife had said she set up and had not. Did get into a new doc, set up with a shoulder surgeon and ENT. The ENT did a MRI and other tests, but ignored numerous classic Dawson’s fingers, eye muscle abnormals and brushed it off as a unknown CNS issue (no neuro referral) despite more falls and another fall needing surgery in under a year.
In 2009 finally a new eye doc opened the MS can-o-worms and was Dx’d Jan 2010. Now I knew HEAT was an issue, so Florida was even more of a problem. I tried getting a real estate agent to sell the house, but nobody wanted to bother with anything under $100k. I tried everyone I knew in Fla, the only one that helped was a old Navy buddy, but that agent would not bother either.
Last winter I got ripped off yet again. They tried to steal my lawn tractor but got it stuck and was damaged from sitting out in the rain. They stole my garden tiller, my garden trailer and utility trailer, as if stealing my cameras and electronics and more years before was not enough.
Believe it not, the preceding was a very very abbreviated overview of preceding years.
Now its 2012. My house, which was to be a stepping-stone to better things, is now a money pit. Taxes and insurance nearly triple, not to mention gas prices and I just cannot do much anymore. My wife’s income and health coverage down, but at least I have been on Medicare since 1985, but expenses thru the roof. Back in Jan my fam doc called, get your butt to ER your kidney #s are off. Then a week later I fall in the driveway and could not get up. SO meatwagon ride to ER. Xray crew from h311 says no broken bones just bruised muscles.
2 Days later I am making brown instead of yeller/clear water and cannot get out of my la-z-boy even with son’s help, so 911 again. Better Xray crew and 5 broken ribs, low Ox and in acute kidney failure, so its morphine (pain candy works great), Ox and a few days on the Nurse Ratchet training ward.
My MS doc sends me to VA kidney doc and their urology clinic. Kidney doc, oh we will worry about what is causing your kidney issues AFTER they fail and urology even worse. Despite knowing I had a distended bladder and voiding issues I could not get even the time of day. Two visits each, $50 a pop ($200 total) VA co-pay for worse than NOTHING. Few days after last VA urology clinic apt, I am in trouble, and my non-va urologist changed practice I could only get in to a NP.
I see the urology NP, scan showed over 300ml PVR so its instant self-cath lesson (a wild embarrassing & scary experience that ended up my refusing to go to ER) and scheduled for bladder testing. I try and make a trip down to Fla before my mid Oct surgery, but my car strangely (sabotage 2 cars have problems at same time just past welcome station?) looses all its tyranny fluid half way down. I get it patched up and make it home barely.
The cheapest repair I can get is a (not cheap) used/salvaged tyranny and what choice do I have. My limited budget is blown, I have to delay paying bills, even late making house payment here, just to keep our car on the road so I can get my wife to work and save that little income. I go to figure out bills for Oct. Fla light bill down, hooray? No, it seems my place has been ripped off yet again (called a neighbor about it). I cannot get down there for now to check on things even if I could afford it.
Today it was the straw that broke the proverbial camels back. I was having lunch and my stand by my la-z-boy had been moved (again/often) and my glass went to the floor instead. I NEVER move my stand and the cat or dog don’t either. My walker I use to help get out of my La-z-boy also gets moved often and not by me.
I know all this seems silly but with my (R-better) leg pain, probably varicose veins again and new problem with my right shoulder (unknown recent issue) it’s just getting to be a heavy load at the moment. Oops, just got another bit of mail. A DMD info dinner invite, but its for the day I expect to be released from the hospital, and I have a kidney disease class (non-VA of course) scheduled the day before my upcoming surgery.
Of course the VA is dragging its feet as usual. I gave up getting care while in the Navy, tried in the mid ‘80s, sent to shrinks (all in head U know) so gave up. 25 yrs later finally Dx’d by VA docs who both agree (plus outside docs) its service connected but SC case still pending. When I rains in my Gomer world, it’s a catagory-13.
I am so LUCKY, my lucky number is 13, can 2013 come fast enough?
Sorry it’s so long.
Even Gomers needed to blow off steam and vent…
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Sir Falls-a-lot
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