Information and Resources > Message Board Q & A
How to Get Off This Mailing List?
JW_Halverson:
Ow. Just saying bone on bone hurts my joints. Sorry to hear that, brother.
Ahnlaashock:
It is what it is. You either play the cards as dealt, or you fold out of the game. I am not ready to fold my cards today, and if I am staying, I am gonna raise!
They say I am too young to operate, so I am supposed to just hurt for 5 to 7 years until they figure I am old enough to actually fix. By that time, the limp and distortion will have ruined everything else, including my knees.
There are a lot of people in worse shape.
JW_Halverson:
12 years ago my bone doc told me I was facing spinal fusions in my lower back. He urged me to hold out as long as I could. I'm holding.
Yup, buddy, it is what it is.
oldtwohairs:
You need to get that surgery done! I had bone on bone in my right hip and had it replaced 3 years ago and I will turn 59 in Aug. They took one look at my X rays and said how long have you been walking on that thing? I said it's hurt like this for several years. The doctor didn't say anything about being to young. I sure am glad I had mine done......I figure that if it wears out in 15 years then I should be able to replace it again or just live with it.
Good Luck!
Ahnlaashock:
Well, until the last few days, I guess I could have gone in and raised heck, forcing them to to the surgery, but everything has changed in just a few days. The sequestration cuts took my wife's job Thursday. They canned her after 27 plus years, three years short of social security. After 27 years, they gave her a two week severance, and we have less than two weeks of health insurance now.
We can pay off everything we owe in the world, so we are not completely devastated, but that will leave us hand to mouth with no medical coverage at all anymore. When my medications dry up, I will likely be crippled up completely in a very rapid progression.
I still am not planning on folding my cards, but the game just got a lot tougher!
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version