Awww!! What sweet words Dana!! I am so happy that we've become friends here on the DIS as well!!God really has blessed us with some wonderful friendships here!! Merry Christmas Dana!!
Ginny you are so funny. Al Gore
. It IS amazing how we feel!!! I think it is great that we have become so close yet we are so many miles apart. Love knows no boundaries and that is the greatest gift of all. This Christmas I am so full of joy and part of it is due to having ya'll as friends.
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Very sweet!! Thanks Dana!! I haven't been on much, have my step daughter here, and just been working...thankfully I still have a job!!
. I could sure use a party right about now. I'm glad you still have your job and I hope all the troubles are over. It is hard enough to work, but to have someone on you all the time just makes it harder. I bet it is so much fun with Chris being home and Tyler having his sister there. I hope ya'll have a blessed and wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year.Dana, We have been blessed to have you as a friend.
Dale and Dallas again.
Kinda leaves a big mouth like me speechless. Dana you are such a stinker. Thanks so much for our surprise!
I hope ya'll have a wonderful Christmas and that the New Year brings only the best. Much love coming your way.
.. I was talking to Allison and she asked me if I had heard that our nurse manager tore her achilles tendon several years ago. I told her "no" I had not heard. The story is she had to fight for weeks to get her MRI and when they finally did the MRI they found that she needed surgery. After she had her surgery she had to continue to wear her boot for A YEAR . The damage that was done, because they took so long doing the surgery, caused her rehab to be much longer than it would have been had she had surgery sooner. Beth is about 36 so she is 10 years younger than I. 
And I'm praying you get some answers tomorrow!!
waiting and praying for good news (in whatever form it should come)
Still praying for you.
. First, I want to say thank you to all my friends for their prayers and concern. I am just so blessed to have you as my friends and Disisters .. We were about 5 minutes late for the appointment, but to my surprise the office was almost empty 
. We are talking a waiting room that has about 300 chairs and has a secondary waiting room with probably half that many and an x-ray area with about 25 chairs. I counted 20 people and that included me and Amanda. I was called back to the second waiting room after about 10 minutes and then put in a room after another 10 or so. When Nancy, Dr. Daugherty's nurse, came in the room I asked her if she could fill out my Aflac papers so I wouldn't have to leave them and wait. I explained to her that I have NO money coming in as I am now out of sick time and vacation time. She filled in her part and then said she would have to ask Dr. D if he would fill in his part. When Dr. D came in he asked how I was doing and asked about my pain. I told him the pain was about the same as it was from the start and he said that was understandable 
. Understandable? I was hoping he would say it was going to go away today.... I told him I had taken the cam walker off and tried to take two steps without it, and if he could, I think he would have whipped me. Now, for those who don't know I worked Orthopedics for many years and I know Dr. D well. He was a doctor in the military so he believe in going by the numbers. He was REALLY upset that BCBS had denied the MRI. I was nice and I didn't mention to him that his nurse had not been following through with all the things I needed. He said he would get the letter of medical necessity dictated so we could get the fight with BCBS started. He had me take my boot off and he began to run his hand up and down my leg and squeeze my calf and when he rubbed the center of my calf I thought I was going to come off the table. Now my leg has been really cramping all day. He explained the whole injury again and said he didn't think I would need surgery, but we needed the MRI to tell exactly how long I will need to be wearing the cam walker. Before he left I asked him to fill out his part of the Aflac papers and explained why I needed it done ASAP and, bless his heart, he sat down and filled them out for me . Normally the doctors will not fill out the paper work. It has to be left and they call you about a week later to come and pick the papers up and they charge $10 every time. Amanda had asked him about letting me go back to work on light duty and he said if my nurse manager could find something for me to do he would consider it 
.. Danielle did say I could come back light duty if they could find something for me to do that did not entail patient care. Beth sent an email to our nursing supervisor to see if she has an opening in bed board(room assignments) and she also sent one to our infection control/employee health department to see if they have anything for me to do. So, everybody please keep me in your prayers that there will be somewhere I can fill in until I have a full release. Not only am I going nuts sitting around here, but being cut back to one paycheck means the money is really tight. If Aflac would do what they are suppose to do things wouldn't be quite so bad 
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