YAY!!!

My manager FINALLY called me back today, after dodging my calls since last Friday, and told me that they are going to fore go the second opinion on my knee. I called the other owner this morning and told him what was going on. I think that he may have had a conversation with owner #1 and told him to stop dragging his feet.

I never thought i'd actually be happy to have surgery. LOL The surgery is set for Friday morning. I'm so relieved. I just want to get this shit over with and get back to work.

Alrighty, off to call the family and start making arrangements for the kidlets.

MRI Results

I finally got to see the Orthopedic Surgeon today for the results of my MRI. It's no bueno. The doc said that I have a torn medial meniscus and sprained or torn MCL. He said that the best option for me right now is to go ahead with surgery. They are going to try to schedule it for next Thursday or Friday. It shouldn't be too bad though, the doc said that I could get back to work within three weeks, assuming that I still have a job.

Now my next task is to get the owners of the restaurant to agree to pay for the surgery. They are wanting me to go for a second opinion. As best I can figure, they are just trying to stall the surgery until they can find a doc that will tell them what they want to hear, which is that surgery isn't really necessary.

I'm sure that i'll be contacting an attorney to help with this quite soon. ugh.

Stuff Portrait Friday!

Brought to us by Random and Odd

Here we go...

My eyes. Just plain green and usually accompanied by dark circles.


My Toys. I can't post a pic of my sewing stuff right now since my camera is broken, so here is a pic of a diaper cake I made for my SIL. Doesn't really count as a toy, but I had fun doing it.


And last but not least, my secret...

Let me know if you played!

When did he get so big?

Well, next week Baby K has his 15 month check up. I can't believe that in three months he'll be a year and half old! Where does the time go?

Here's the little man at 3 days old. So cute!


And this is my boy at almost 15 months. Why do they have to grow up so fast?

Finally

I get to go see an orthopedic surgeon tomorrow! I finally found one that would take self pay patients (because my company has no worker's comp ins.) and has an open appt for tomorrow. They want the cash up front. I'm starting to feel bad that this is going to cost so much. The office lady said that the first appt was going to be $196 and the MRI is $1100. Ouch. Well, at least it's not coming out of my pocket. I don't even want to think about how much the surgery is going to cost if I have to have it.

Four Things

I wanna play too!

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE:
1. Server at Ruby Tuesdays
2. Senior Teller at Wells Fargo
3. Manager at Bank of America
4. Student and Mommy

FOUR PLACES THAT YOU HAVE LIVED:
1. Austin, TX
2. Austin, TX
3. Leander, TX
4. Austin, TX

FOUR TV SHOWS THAT YOU WATCH:
1. Lost
2. Law & Order SVU
3. Desperate Housewives
4. Extreme Makeover Home Edition

FOUR PLACES YOU HAVE BEEN ON VACATION:
1. Vista California
2. The UK
3. Kissimmee Florida
4. Jackson Mississippi

FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY: (I'm going to have to go with weekly here)
1. My blog
2. My email
3. My bank acct.
4. Ebay

FOUR FAVORITE FOODS:
1. Tex-mex
2. Pasta
3. Salad
4. Chocolate

FOUR PLACES THAT YOU WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
1. In the doctor's office getting my knee fixed.
2. In bed asleep.
3. Cleaning my house, but I can't because i'm gimpy.
4. Out shopping.

You have GOT to be kidding.

Well, it took a week for my work to finally authorize a doctors appt for my busted knee. The guy called this morning and told me my appt was at 3. Great! Finally, relief is in sight. WRONG. My manager from work told me that I was going to see a doctor who would prescribe me some pain meds and get me a referral to an orthopedic surgeon. Who did they send me to? A fucking chiropractor. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against chiropractors. I have one myself and love him dearly, but a chiropractor is not who I needed to see today.

So when I get there the doc took a look at my leg and got my story as to what had happened that night. He then proceeds to tell me that my ACL is not torn, but that i merely "popped" my knee cap. WTF? All this after he's looked at it for a whole two seconds. He tells me that he wants to do cryo and electric therapy for one to two weeks and then I should be good as new. If after the two weeks i'm still in pain then he would recommend sending me for an MRI.

I'm having some serious issues with this. When I was in the ER last Tuesday the doc told me that I needed to be in with an orthopedic surgeon the next day for a full assessment and MRI. Why the hell did they send me to a chiropractor? They have been telling me for six days now that they are still getting the paperwork in order so that I can see the orthopedic surgeon. So when I go up to work today to figure out what in the hell is going on, they finally tell me that they don't have workman's comp insurance and are having to pay all of this out of pocket.

So basically, they've been bullshitting me for the last 7 days because they don't want to have to deal with this. I also found out today that the chiropractor that they sent me to is the personal chiropractor for one of the owners. If that's not shady, I don't know what is.

Anyhow, here I am, seven days later, still no pain meds and no answer as to what in the hell is wrong with my severely swollen and painful knee. Tomorrow morning I am calling my orthopedic surgeon to see if they can just bill the company.

I just want some freaking pain medicine so that maybe I can sleep for more than two hours a night and to find out what in the hell is wrong with my poor broken knee, but apparently this is too much to ask.

The Momma who lived in a bubble

I seriously need to live in a bubble. While coming downstairs (on my crutches) to answer the door today, I fell from about 3/4's way up the staircase. I managed to bend the hell out of my METAL knee brace, jam my bad hip, skin my knee and hand and hit the back of my head on the tile floor. Oh yeah, I think I also broke a bone in my foot and smacked my face on the wall at the bottom of the stairs. And to top it all off... I think I might have a concussion.

Think I should try for a third ER visit this week?

This is what happens when....

...you let four year old children dress themselves.

Notice the shorts? Yeah, they're not only on inside-out but also backwards. My son truly is talented.

Just me and the boy

Let me just say, I am sooo damn glad that football season is almost over!

Hubs has gotten into the habit of going over to a certain friend's house every Sunday during college and NFL preseason and regular season. This seriously drives me nuts. I mean, i'm all for him having his guy time and all, but this just seems like overkill. He leaves me (and the boys) at 10:30am and doesn't get back till around 7. Mind you, I work nights (well, I did till my knee exploded) and he works days. So the only time that we really have together is after I get home at 11pm and Saturdays mornings before I go to work.

I probably shouldn't complain. We tend to drive each other nuts when we spend too much time together. I guess it'd just be nice to have some help on the weekends.

At least today he took the youngest boy child with him. He wasn't all too thrilled about that, but he got over it. Now I just gotta find something to keep the T-Man entertained for the next, oh, seven hours.

I'm such a dork.

So while I was at work on Tuesday night I twisted my knee and tore my interior ACL. How the hell does that happen? I mean, I thought that only happened to football players and stuff. Anyhow, here it is Sunday morning, I STILL haven't seen an orthopedic surgeon because my work doesn't feel the need to do the paperwork for workman's comp. Gee, thanks guys. So, hopefully it'll only be another couple of days till I get some pain meds and anti inflammatories. Till then I gotta figure out how to clean the house, make meals for Mr. Cranky and chase after my two little boogers, one of which just looooves to run on the couch and on occasion try to nose dive off of it. At least I can handle that one since my ass is most likely going to be planted there for the next couple of weeks.

Here goes nothing...

Welcome to my wonderful world of chaos and dysfunction. I'm Cheryl, I live here in beautiful Austin, Texas with my two wild children and ever so helpful husband. T-Man is four and a half years old and Baby K just turned one in November. I've been married to Mr. Cranky for almost five years. Yeah, yeah, I know, the math doesn't all add up there. Oh well... I go to school full time and work part time at a local restaurant, hubs works for a major insurance provider and the kids, well, they just drive us nuts. Hopefully my creative juices will start flowing and i'll actually be able to write something entertaining, but right now it's just not working so check back on me later. ;)