> > Let me ask you this, did your doctor tell you that you *would* lose > function > in your hand or that you would probably lose function in you hand. Did he > pronounce your recovery a miracle and turn to faith healing or tell you > that > you had beaten the odds? > > 'Cause my doctor usually just tells me what the range of probability is > that > this or that will happen. He doesn't make promises. >
I liked my doctor. He spent 9 hours peering at my nerve end trying to get it lined up just right. The injury was in my elbow and the distance of 18 inches was the marked outer limit of what regeneration can accomplish, mine was exactly at that limit. He told me it was a crap shoot whether or not I'd have any function. But I'd like to say that even though I really appreciated my doctor, the whole thing was a sort of lesson in individual reliance as Platt affirmed because my workman's comp was denied. This happened about a week after 9-11 and things in general were in turmoil. State Fund - California's Workman's Comp fund, really screwed me over. They denied me because they said I wasn't using an employer supplied tool. Which was ridiculous because as a foreman, it was my responsibility to supply all the tools necessary to get the job done. But I figure there are pretty good actuarial reasons for denying claims. Half the time when you yank the rug out from the only wage earner in a one-income family, he goes crazy or alcoholic probably. Shoots himself. Problem solved. My wife was also 8 1/2 mos pregnant at the time. I got pretty jaundiced about big insurance companies, big financial firms and that distrust and the decisions they led to have been a big help to my understanding in the recent debacles of huge corporate mismanagement. Liked your poem, ------------ Self is Choice, so choose good ------------ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
