Good morning, Maggie!

The cat and dog have been driving me nuts in bed and my arm is hurting so I have been up since 2 am YAWN! I will probably go back to bed when Jack gets up as the animals go down with him and I can take over the bed and conquer the parts I want before the animals come back upstairs to regain control!

So, what are we doing with our village now? Is it a jail or what? I need to get some scrapbooking done, my weight loss scrapbook is now months behind, but I am just not into it. I have always liked it, but never been one to do it day in and out. My dd likes it more than I do and goes to Creative Memorie stuff etc. I used to cross-stitch a lot and I knitted, but my hands hurt so much to do that now and my vision is poorer to do cross-stitch. One of the pieces I am most proud of is a sampler I did for my mil years ago. It is a poem about basically a mil and her son. I have it hanging on my wall in the upstairs landing with pics of her (I took this back when she died.) I still have cross-stitch stuff all over my house as decoration. I would like to sew maybe, but who knows? Right now, as usual, reading is my passion.

Have a great! Hope the weather is good for you!

Jean: Hope your having fun!

Gloria and Bubs: Missing you!

Faye

Good Evening Magnolias

We have been busy getting ready for DS & family's arrival from NC on Friday. Also getting ready for the Reunion on the 30th. It has been a cloudy day and we had Kerri & Sean here for a while today. Their Summer baby sitter doesn't start til next week & DD had to work today. Sean went off to a friends house for the afternoon and Kerrie had a small rash on her face so she couln't go the pool party in her neighborhood. DD & sil are off to Bermuda on Friday and we will have the kids again for an overnight on Thursday then they will spend the weekend with their cousins. Mom was so concerned about the rash and that she would be away if something developed that she left work early and took Kerri the the DR. She has a virus called Fifths Disease! I never heard of this before but it is not bad and she needs to stay cool and out of the sun for a while.

FAYE: After tomorrow, when you see the Dr., I hope you will be feeling better. It is good that you still can get in the pool...good exercise and keeps you cool. I don't know how you can sleep at all with the animals in the bed.

MAGGIE: You go girl! It is great that you are back on track and you will be losing in no time. Your weather sounds delightful....especially those evening drives with the top down.

JEAN: Hope you are enjoying your Summer away from school. It must seem like heaven! How is your foot doing? I hope you are in regular shoes by now!

Gloria in MA....Still need to do more food shopping and some pre-cooking for the party. When DS leaves Thursday nite 7/1 we will have just 12 hours to prepare to go to the Cape for 4 days over the 4th of July. I believe my live is like a ketchup bottle.....either nothing or a lottle.

Have a great nite all!

Boy what a lousy afternoon and evening I have had. I have pretty much been sitting around balling all afternoon. I got a reminder call for my ortho appt tomorrow and now they are saying they won't see me because I don't have paperwork from the lawyer with a payment guarantee (telling her I had a subragation agreement was not enough) or that I would pay for the appt myself. I got mad and told her fine if she didn't want me to come she could cancel the appt and hung up on her. I called my doctor first only to be told she wasn't there and that I was supposed to call the restaurant to pay for it and when I said I had an attorney she said, well you need to call the doctor back and make arrangements because dr thomas is not here and hung up on me. I called the paralegal and sobbed it out on the phone and she told me she would run and talk to my attorney who called me back and told me I have a few options that this happens a lot. A) pay for treatment just to get treated but then would probably have problems getting it settled with the restaurant B) give him the info and let him try and get my appt back C) fire them and then the insurance would pay when they found out I wasn't pursuing legal action against the restaurant D) go to the emergency room or a med facility and try and get them to cast my arm. I am not seeing much hope in that though. I told Jack I am about at the end of my rope with all of this. No wonder people end up getting millions of dollars for getting burned by coffee! I have just sat and cried this afternoon about it all. For God's sakes I guess all drs care about anymore is money and not treating people!

God love him, my attorney called me back about an hour ago apologizing profusely because he couldn't get those jerks to budge. They won't see me. Now the thing is, Jack called Humana and talked to a supervisor and that snot told him that even if we fired our attorney unless they have written proof that the insurance company for the restaurant denies the claim for good reasons they won't pay! Can you believe that? I told my attorney that and he said, ok, now it is time to play some hardball with the restaurant's insurer. He said he was going to the biggy partner at the firm (this is the main partner that does all the tv commercials here) and to the other attorneys to check and see if there is anything he missed before putting the thumb on the insurance company. He said, I am saying this only out of respect for you and not saying all I feel, but doctor's are supposed to treat people. He said he was angry and so very sorry I have had to live with untreated injury for a month. He said if they refuse then he will demand a refusal to pay letter so we can fire the attorney and he said he will send me all the paperwork to send to Tricare so I can get my arm fixed, but you know that will take weeks with getting the letter from the restaurant's insurance, getting the paperwork together and sent back to us and we in turn getting it to tricare then I would have to start all over going back to my doctor getting another referral etc. Jack lost his temper with the lady at humana and told her he bet if she had had a broken arm for a month and a damaged knee she would probably get help because she was one of their stinking employees and she got mad at that! She had the audacity to start reading to him from their stupid policy manual!

Anyway, I sit here with a messed up knee (there is damage to it btw, though we don't know if it is surgically repairable because we can't get to an ortho surgeon to look at the results!) and a messed up arm but I have been through worse in my life and had to deal with it alone and at least I have Jack to help me through it all.


Thanks to you all for your good thoughts and prayers!

Faye

Maggie: Good for you! I am a cheeto freak too except I don't like the crunchy ones I like the puffy ones and can sit and eat a whole bag of those cheap kind so boy I don't buy them at all. I stick to pretzels and ff pringles and don't eat either of those much at all.

When I am stressed I clean so the whole house got a cleaning yesterday. My arm has been tightly bandaged by Jack and I will take it off to go to the pool today for a little while just to get in some exercise. I am hoping maybe it will help with whatever is wrong with it because what I hear is it only takes a few days for a bone left alone to knit but I am having a lot of pain with it. On top of that, my neck and shoulders are knotted horribly because of wearing the darn sling during the day. Anyway, I have taken the road that since we have done everything we can, I need to just move on with my life and be happy in it best I can until we see what happens next.

Faye

Up and at em early this morning so thought I would check in.

I am surely getting antsy about going to Indiana next week. I miss my son and dil and my sister and friends so much. I have very little contact with anyone except Jack down here. I only have one friend and both she and her husband have clinical depression so that is always up and down. I always let her contact me because I never know what I am going to get with her. Then there is the dd and you know how that it, prickly to say the least. With all that has been going on with me, it makes it even more difficult not to have one on one contact with other people and poor Jack has to absorb everthing.

How is you village coming along, Maggie? I have read 7 books this week. Finishing up on the last one today.

Not much news around here, kind of sameo sameo.

Faye

Jean: Welcome home! Hubby didin't get enough fishing in, he is going again,huh? Glad you had a good time. Yes, I am sure by this time my arm has knitted but I still have a lot of pain doing things like trying to turn doorknobs stuff like that and I dislocated my knee when I feel and there is damage to that too.

Fifth Disease is kind of a very mild form of I think Chicken Pox, Measles something like that but doesn't have the side effects. I guess a lot of children get it.

I cannot believe I got up at 3 am on a Saturday. I know I got to bed very early, mostly now because my meds make me sleepy, but I seem to be awake earlier and earlier. Part of it is that my shoulders and arm ache but there isn't a whole lot to do for that because I can't continually take Lortab as it I am sure can become addictive and it knocks you OUT!

Guess we are going to try and get carpets shampooed today, whoopee, but it needs it again.

I guess I should go back to bed for awhile.

Faye

Jean: Cards I do, coffee I don't! I hate and never drink it. SHOCKING! This is what I should look like , but I am bright eyed and bushy tailed. Went back to bed, disturbed my dh then let him go back to sleep and I got up. I am just a serious morning person. Only problem, crummy tv and I have read all my books and watched my Netflix videos yesterday, which were both good btw. One was "In America" about an Irish family that came from Ireland to change their lives and the other was "Chasing Liberty" about the 18 year old dd of the president (her code name being Liberty) and her giving the slip to her ss men and traveling around Europe while her parents are in a Summit Conference. Cute romance movie, even Jack liked it though.

Well, enough blabbing. Enjoy your weekend. When does your bell choir start back up, Jean? Haven't heard about them lately.

faye