One Week from This Moment

Julie · Post by **Julie** » Wed May 24, 2006 8:18 am

I'll be in surgery. I'm not too scared, but I am a bit wigged out about the amount of recovery time. I've never had a scheduled surgery before (had an emergency one for my appendix, so I didn't have to pre-think the problems), so it's starting to weigh on my mind.

Wish me luck!!!

Devil's Advocate · Post by **Devil's Advocate** » Wed May 24, 2006 8:26 am

Good luck!

...but I wouldn't be too worried. The world's gonna end tomorrow.

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Wed May 24, 2006 8:28 am

can I ask why your having surgery...?

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Wed May 24, 2006 8:29 am

Devil's Advocate wrote:

...but I wouldn't be too worried. The world's gonna end tomorrow.

is that from the guy who's an ex Nasa employee and got the information from aliens

Julie · Post by **Julie** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:01 am

schuette wrote:can I ask why your having surgery...?

Oh, of course.

I've been a gardener/landscaper for the past 20+ years. (I'm a Master Gardener.) It's taking its toll on this old body, via wear and tear. This past year was super busy with installs. Last summer I was averaging 10 hour days, planting about 800 plants a day (4 inch and 1 gallon, not 5 or 15 gallon ones), as a client was having a 2 million dollar wedding at her house. The place looked spectacular, but I wore my shoulder out. (Not to mention, my 20 other clients needing my services.) Being a stubborn ass, I kept working instead of taking a few weeks off to heal. Then when I was doing the Fall/Winter plantings and pruning six months ago, my shoulder just gave out. I have one completely torn tendon, another tendon hanging on by a thread, other tears and impingment in my shoulder, so they are going to go in and spend three hours sewing everything back together.

I took February, March and the first half of April off, hoping I'd heal on my own. But the surgeons say that the tendons won't re-attach on their own, so they scheduled surgery. I'm back at work now, popping pain pills, as I have to get the Spring/Summer installs in. Gotta keep those client's satisfied, right?

Anyhoo, that's why I'm having surgery. They say I'll be off work 4-6 months, which is totally depressing, since I'm self employed and don't get workman's comp.

Shoot, if the world ends tomorrow, DA, does that mean I should skip work today?

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:09 am

first of all I'm gonna give you a row for not taking a few weeks off to heal

.....2nd that is so shitty that cuz your self employed your not gonna get any help from the government!
I wish you all the best with your surgery and I hope it doesnt hurt too much...

and it may be tough but please take off the time that you need to heal...the lack of money will be really hard but your body is more important...

Middle Kingdom · Post by **Middle Kingdom** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:21 am

Well, good luck with the surgery.
Hope you have a speedy recovery.

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:44 am

good luck and heal quick.... That sounds painful but you seem pretty tough to me.

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Wed May 24, 2006 10:36 am

Julie, sounds icky, but like it should come out okay. I will pray for you and you know, we wouldn't mind you taking more time to hang with us while you recover.

Medinaquirin · Post by **Medinaquirin** » Wed May 24, 2006 12:28 pm

Yowch, that definetely doesn't sound like fun. I'm sure everything will go smoothly, though, so happy recovery. And no bowling for you.

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Wed May 24, 2006 1:01 pm

hey Med hiya

...how's things going?

sorry Julie for getting away from the topic but hey this is by-tor

rushlight · Post by **rushlight** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:10 pm

You'll be up and kicking in no time Julie.

Medinaquirin · Post by **Medinaquirin** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:44 pm

schuette wrote:hey Med hiya ...how's things going?

sorry Julie for getting away from the topic but hey this is by-tor

Trudging along as usual. Got a job search thingwie to do for the next month or so so we can keep our foodstamps, yay.

Nommuch else. How's you, sug?

*apologizes to Julie for the off topicness as well*

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:46 pm

I'm doing well.....good luck with the job search thingy....
they do that over here as well...

Medinaquirin · Post by **Medinaquirin** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:49 pm

Ta muchly. I made all the contacts I need for the week, but I've still to actually fill in three of the four applications. God I'm lazy. -_-

Anyway, I've got a kitchen that needs cleaning (don't want my aunt jumping down my throat for something two days in a row, I might go postal), so I'll be back soonly. *huggles and dives*