CE Besides electricity, and air conditioning, and powered vehicles (yeah, they should be airborne after all this time, but they're still a helluva lot better than horses), and cheap groceries, and all that jazz...
LOL, I remember Ice boxes being more common than refrigerators, rooms with one light bulb that hung from the center of the ceiling and being the only light in the room, cutting down trees to burn in a kitchen range to cook on and for heating a house, cars that had to be pushed to get started (no money for a good battery), and what is air conditioning?????? Gee I remember the lucky people that had an electric fan.
Now I have high speed Internet, almost all of the electrical gadgets, a few too many cars that do start and sometimes more money than I really need.
Hi all. Everything is fine with the hernia repair. I had the surgery between 9AM and 10:30 AM yesterday. I said between because I was out between those hours when the surgery was done.
I had some Military hospital food at lunchtime, a pain pill at 12:30, and then rode on the shuttle service at 2PM to ride home 250 miles. I got home around 6:30 PM.
Everything was fine yesterday (only minor pain) and only have pain today when I bend too much.
At the VA hospital, I met some guys that were in the Korean War; some were in the Vietnam conflict, and others that served at various other places.
Some guys were thankful the Veterans Administration and the medical and educational services were available for their usage and were truly grateful.
Other guys had what I consider a “what is in it for them, how do they get more while doing less, the government owes me/them” attitude, and were not happy with what they were receiving. This unhappy group also spoke of drug and alcohol usage at some point in their life, or currently, and many had periods of not working or serving time in lock-up.
Does everything in the VA system operate at 100% efficiency? No, but w/o the VA programs some guys would be street people or possibly dead.
I also met some VA volunteers that are responsible for keeping some of the programs going, and w/o the volunteers, fewer services would be available to those that need them.
The shuttle driver does the 500 mile round trip one day a week. In addition to his military service, he taught driver’s Ed for 22 years. He was one of the nicest and articulate person anyone would ever want to meet.
Why do I use the VA? My private insurance cost $650 a month and doesn’t pay for much. The VA bills my insurance company for the services it provides to me so I don’t feel like a free-loader. If I didn’t have any money, I am still eligible for many VA services. I don’t like not paying so do what I can by having at least some INS so VA can do what they call cost recovery.
Like I said, my heath insurance is ~$650 now but in Dec the monthly premiums go to over ~$1,300 so I have decided to go w/o for a year
Corri But one of the things I am most grateful for... is everyone here, that I have met, over the years, who keeps Corri in line. Who helps Corri grow. I second, third, forth,……….. that thought Corri.
Off work for a day or two???? and a 10# lifting limit. GEE, I already broke that rule! Anyone want some 10 mg Oxycodone pills. I took 3 of the 25 the VA prescribed and am done with them. I still have almost all of my 5mg Oxycodone pills from last year when I wound up in the ER
