I have to admit, I have spent an entire lifetime and career avoiding "Manual Labor". :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Last week while unloading a small order at "Publix" warehouse in Jacksonville, I was replacing my pallets, I picked one up and felt a real HOT sting in my lower abdomen................I didn't think anything of it, at my age
(57), Hell I hurt in places I didn't even know I had.............I even went back to our company office saying, I think I have a "Hernia" , in a half-joking manner.................it was over as far as I'm concerned.
I get up this morning
(Monday) with a little pain
(not much) in my abdomen, think nothing of it............go to take a shower
(I know, a truck driver taking a shower every day is hard to believe :lol: :lol................HOLY SHEEEEEEET..............I look down and it looks like an "Small Orange" bulging out my abdomen.......
take in mind that when I put my chin down to my chest, I can actually see my feet...(can you?) :lol:...I'm 6' 0" and only weight 186 lbs,
(all muscle, I might add :lol , so it was quite noticeable...........I freaking out, I hate going to the Doctor, but I call immediately...............finally get an emergency appointment to see her at 10:00 AM..........she takes one look, pushes a couple of places
(as I'm screaming in pain by now) and gets on the phone to set an immediate appointment with a Surgeon.................I get to the Surgeons office, he explains the I have a "Inguinal Hernia and a Groin rupture".......and need surgery IMMEDIATELY............when I realized I wasn't going to faint
(I'm a total wuss) I say "no big deal", that's why I have insurance "Lets do it".........
Here's where it get "effin screwed-up"...............
One would think that if he were paying as his part, $4550,00 ($175.00 bi-weekly) annually for his part on an "Aetna Insurance Insurance Plan", ....it would be pretty good coverage for just me and my wife................"BUT NO".............it seems that I end up paying 70% and "Aetna Insurance" is responsible for only 30%............my upfront cost was going to be $2900.00 and they expected a check before Surgery...............the money was not the point, I have the money, it's more a Principle thing with me.........explained next.
Here I am being nice guy trying to keep my company owners Workman's Comp. from going up....I was going to pay out of my insurance, NOT now..............I called and am making a claim tomorrow.............boy, they were pizzed...........because, I'm going to maybe need 3-surgeries in total I was informed after feeling my abdomen and Family Jewels, and will be out of work 6-8 weeks,...............the sad part, I told them I did NOT want any drugs after the Surgery...........I might regret that decision.
UPDATE.....UPDATE.............UPDATE...........UPD ATE
It's Tuesday morning. I'm thinking I'm going to let "Workman's Comp" pay for my operation and get paid for the weeks I'm off.................I get a call from my Surgeons Office, the nurse is in a panic.......I ask her what's wrong, she said the Doctor was in a panic because she had not scheduled Surgery immediately
(actually my dumb azz fault) he specifically emphasized to me that this operation CAN NOT wait........the chances of my Hernia become "Incarcerated" and/or "Strangulated" are extremely high and if I don't have surgery immediately, it could be, without warning the "Eternal Dirt Nap" for me.....in other words, "Workman's Comp." will take to long, so now I have to pay this out of my own pocket, because of my wonderful outright SCAM-POS insurance policy SUCKS BIG TIME.....this friggin sucks.
Another kicker...............they have scheduled my surgery for 4:45 AM in the "Friggin" morning on Thursday.....who in their right mind would cut on someone that early? Oh yea, after talking to my neighbor who's had a couple of these, he explained the pain factor...........I called the Doctors Office and told them I was suffering from "Temporary Insanity"..........GIMME the DRUGS.....Homey, don't play this pain sheeeeeet. :lol: :lol:
The moral to this drivel..................
READ YOUR INSURANCE POLICY!!!!