Re: RICHARD

[Guest guest]

> HELLO. WHY DO YOU NOT GIVE UP YOUR PRACTICE. IF YOU CANNOT RMEMBER

> LITTLE THINGS OW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO THE PATIENTS.

THIS IS

> NOT GOOD. YOU CAN SYTILL TEACH ABOUT RSD BUT NOT PRACTICE IT. I

HAVE

> HAD RSD FOR 10 YEARS AND I TAKE NO MEDS FOR IT. I AM NOT A HERO.

JUST

> SEVERELY ALLERGIC. EASY????? NOPE. MAD????YEP. WRITE ME WHEN

YOU

> CAN. HUGS CATHY

WARNING – I RAMBLE A LOT!!!!

, Well that is a loaded questions and I understand where you

are coming from.

I have had RSD since 8/2002, diagnosised 3/2003 and started getting

treated in 4/2003. Looking back at statistics, I started cutting my

office hours down as well my patient daily volume back in September

because of strength, gimping around and MAJOR fatigue – I just could

not handle it for some reason. At least now I know why I had these

problems back then – lol.

I am in solo practice yet I am a corporation (which is now a catch

22 – more on that later). I had a huge and growing business –

treating mostly chronic and terminally ill patients. I am usually

their last resort for health care. God gave me the ability and

patience to express to them a kind of compassion, caring, dignity as

well as a shoulder to lean on, which most have not ever had in our

current health care system. My phone does not stop ringing and I

am book up for the rest of the year. My wife (actually the boss of

the office – I always say I am just " the boy in the back working " )

can read me like a book – She and I know that I have about a 4 hours

window of time each morning (as long as I take my meds, sleep right,

nap often, do my physical therapy and get my injections) that I

function well. If I get up about 5:30AM and start trying to get

mobilized – I am good to go from 8 to noon 4 days per week (use to be

6 hours but that window is getting shorter). My nurse and wife know

immediately when I am starting to have trouble and they call it quits

for the day – sending patients home and canceling if not here yet. I

am sure that sound VERY STRANGE but mentally and physically it has

worked so far.

The emotional toll that we have all been through is devastating as

you know, but watching my patients suffer and my practice crumble is

even harder that most can imagine. God has some plan for me… still

waiting for him to share it with me.

Now the catch 22 – I am not involved with SSI (yet) nor W/C, but my

disability company (of which I pay thousands to, is putting us though

hell with every excuses they can come up with. I, as a physician, am

the insured and only my salary reduction is what they base the

benefits on – but they stated in writing (1) that I should stop

paying my wife (she is the office manager and works harder that I

do) therefore her income is considered mine. I have not been paid

for over 6 months – nothing left after expenses. I also own the

building that my corporation rents for the practice – therefore my

disability company also says (2) that the rental money should be paid

to me as a salary instead while I am sick. It does not matter to

them that my patient volume is about 30 to 40% of what it was pre

RSD. We have been looking for another physician to step into my

shoes – but guess what - any income he or she makes – is considered

the same as if I was the one working. I won't even go into detail

what the disability would do in the long range if I sold the

practice – likely they would come up with a way I would own them

100,000.00. LOL LOL LOL

(FYI to all – it is just not the government plans that screw us all

around.)

I am hanging on – for this reason --- NO PLACE in Kansas City has a

aquatic therapy pool warm enough for my gait training and PT. I must

have at least 98-100 degrees or my arms and legs look like I am

having seizures. We had to buy (credit card charge) a unit which

cost more than my SUV 8'x16'x5'. Which then lead us to investigate

the demand for aquatic therapy, rehab and general exercises and

fitness which can be done with water – WHAT A DEMAND FROM ALL

SECTORS. With my good name/repatriation, our caring and compassion,

my wife's business sense – etc. We are in the planning and

development phase of stating a 8000 sq foot indoor aquatic fitness

center and day spa, with several heated pools, lockers, steam rooms,

saunas, etc... It will be in my wife's name ONLY – Disability can

not do a damn thing about that – I might work now and then for her,

with very little income. Therefore I must hang in there until all is

in process.

Rest assured – that if I am having trouble working – that is it for

the day.

DAMN – you ask a simple question and you get a diary in response – as

I have said before – I ramble.

[Guest guest]

God has some plan for me… still waiting for him to share it with me.

Sometimes it takes a while to know, but sure enough, He DOES have a plan for you, because He can take something that stinks and make a rose out of it. There are still some thorns, but the rose is more noticeable. I know that for a fact.

Love,

Re: RICHARD

> HELLO. WHY DO YOU NOT GIVE UP YOUR PRACTICE. IF YOU CANNOT RMEMBER> LITTLE THINGS OW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO THE PATIENTS. THIS IS> NOT GOOD. YOU CAN SYTILL TEACH ABOUT RSD BUT NOT PRACTICE IT. I HAVE> HAD RSD FOR 10 YEARS AND I TAKE NO MEDS FOR IT. I AM NOT A HERO. JUST> SEVERELY ALLERGIC. EASY????? NOPE. MAD????YEP. WRITE ME WHEN YOU> CAN. HUGS CATHYWARNING – I RAMBLE A LOT!!!!, Well that is a loaded questions and I understand where you are coming from. I have had RSD since 8/2002, diagnosised 3/2003 and started getting treated in 4/2003. Looking back at statistics, I started cutting my office hours down as well my patient daily volume back in September because of strength, gimping around and MAJOR fatigue – I just could not handle it for some reason. At least now I know why I had these problems back then – lol. I am in solo practice yet I am a corporation (which is now a catch 22 – more on that later). I had a huge and growing business – treating mostly chronic and terminally ill patients. I am usually their last resort for health care. God gave me the ability and patience to express to them a kind of compassion, caring, dignity as well as a shoulder to lean on, which most have not ever had in our current health care system. My phone does not stop ringing and I am book up for the rest of the year. My wife (actually the boss of the office – I always say I am just "the boy in the back working") can read me like a book – She and I know that I have about a 4 hours window of time each morning (as long as I take my meds, sleep right, nap often, do my physical therapy and get my injections) that I function well. If I get up about 5:30AM and start trying to get mobilized – I am good to go from 8 to noon 4 days per week (use to be 6 hours but that window is getting shorter). My nurse and wife know immediately when I am starting to have trouble and they call it quits for the day – sending patients home and canceling if not here yet. I am sure that sound VERY STRANGE but mentally and physically it has worked so far. The emotional toll that we have all been through is devastating as you know, but watching my patients suffer and my practice crumble is even harder that most can imagine. God has some plan for me… still waiting for him to share it with me.Now the catch 22 – I am not involved with SSI (yet) nor W/C, but my disability company (of which I pay thousands to, is putting us though hell with every excuses they can come up with. I, as a physician, am the insured and only my salary reduction is what they base the benefits on – but they stated in writing (1) that I should stop paying my wife (she is the office manager and works harder that I do) therefore her income is considered mine. I have not been paid for over 6 months – nothing left after expenses. I also own the building that my corporation rents for the practice – therefore my disability company also says (2) that the rental money should be paid to me as a salary instead while I am sick. It does not matter to them that my patient volume is about 30 to 40% of what it was pre RSD. We have been looking for another physician to step into my shoes – but guess what - any income he or she makes – is considered the same as if I was the one working. I won't even go into detail what the disability would do in the long range if I sold the practice – likely they would come up with a way I would own them 100,000.00. LOL LOL LOL (FYI to all – it is just not the government plans that screw us all around.) I am hanging on – for this reason --- NO PLACE in Kansas City has a aquatic therapy pool warm enough for my gait training and PT. I must have at least 98-100 degrees or my arms and legs look like I am having seizures. We had to buy (credit card charge) a unit which cost more than my SUV 8'x16'x5'. Which then lead us to investigate the demand for aquatic therapy, rehab and general exercises and fitness which can be done with water – WHAT A DEMAND FROM ALL SECTORS. With my good name/repatriation, our caring and compassion, my wife's business sense – etc. We are in the planning and development phase of stating a 8000 sq foot indoor aquatic fitness center and day spa, with several heated pools, lockers, steam rooms, saunas, etc... It will be in my wife's name ONLY – Disability can not do a damn thing about that – I might work now and then for her, with very little income. Therefore I must hang in there until all is in process. Rest assured – that if I am having trouble working – that is it for the day. DAMN – you ask a simple question and you get a diary in response – as I have said before – I ramble.

[Guest guest]

God has some plan for me… still waiting for him to share it with me.

Sometimes it takes a while to know, but sure enough, He DOES have a plan for you, because He can take something that stinks and make a rose out of it. There are still some thorns, but the rose is more noticeable. I know that for a fact.

Love,

Re: RICHARD

> HELLO. WHY DO YOU NOT GIVE UP YOUR PRACTICE. IF YOU CANNOT RMEMBER> LITTLE THINGS OW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO THE PATIENTS. THIS IS> NOT GOOD. YOU CAN SYTILL TEACH ABOUT RSD BUT NOT PRACTICE IT. I HAVE> HAD RSD FOR 10 YEARS AND I TAKE NO MEDS FOR IT. I AM NOT A HERO. JUST> SEVERELY ALLERGIC. EASY????? NOPE. MAD????YEP. WRITE ME WHEN YOU> CAN. HUGS CATHYWARNING – I RAMBLE A LOT!!!!, Well that is a loaded questions and I understand where you are coming from. I have had RSD since 8/2002, diagnosised 3/2003 and started getting treated in 4/2003. Looking back at statistics, I started cutting my office hours down as well my patient daily volume back in September because of strength, gimping around and MAJOR fatigue – I just could not handle it for some reason. At least now I know why I had these problems back then – lol. I am in solo practice yet I am a corporation (which is now a catch 22 – more on that later). I had a huge and growing business – treating mostly chronic and terminally ill patients. I am usually their last resort for health care. God gave me the ability and patience to express to them a kind of compassion, caring, dignity as well as a shoulder to lean on, which most have not ever had in our current health care system. My phone does not stop ringing and I am book up for the rest of the year. My wife (actually the boss of the office – I always say I am just "the boy in the back working") can read me like a book – She and I know that I have about a 4 hours window of time each morning (as long as I take my meds, sleep right, nap often, do my physical therapy and get my injections) that I function well. If I get up about 5:30AM and start trying to get mobilized – I am good to go from 8 to noon 4 days per week (use to be 6 hours but that window is getting shorter). My nurse and wife know immediately when I am starting to have trouble and they call it quits for the day – sending patients home and canceling if not here yet. I am sure that sound VERY STRANGE but mentally and physically it has worked so far. The emotional toll that we have all been through is devastating as you know, but watching my patients suffer and my practice crumble is even harder that most can imagine. God has some plan for me… still waiting for him to share it with me.Now the catch 22 – I am not involved with SSI (yet) nor W/C, but my disability company (of which I pay thousands to, is putting us though hell with every excuses they can come up with. I, as a physician, am the insured and only my salary reduction is what they base the benefits on – but they stated in writing (1) that I should stop paying my wife (she is the office manager and works harder that I do) therefore her income is considered mine. I have not been paid for over 6 months – nothing left after expenses. I also own the building that my corporation rents for the practice – therefore my disability company also says (2) that the rental money should be paid to me as a salary instead while I am sick. It does not matter to them that my patient volume is about 30 to 40% of what it was pre RSD. We have been looking for another physician to step into my shoes – but guess what - any income he or she makes – is considered the same as if I was the one working. I won't even go into detail what the disability would do in the long range if I sold the practice – likely they would come up with a way I would own them 100,000.00. LOL LOL LOL (FYI to all – it is just not the government plans that screw us all around.) I am hanging on – for this reason --- NO PLACE in Kansas City has a aquatic therapy pool warm enough for my gait training and PT. I must have at least 98-100 degrees or my arms and legs look like I am having seizures. We had to buy (credit card charge) a unit which cost more than my SUV 8'x16'x5'. Which then lead us to investigate the demand for aquatic therapy, rehab and general exercises and fitness which can be done with water – WHAT A DEMAND FROM ALL SECTORS. With my good name/repatriation, our caring and compassion, my wife's business sense – etc. We are in the planning and development phase of stating a 8000 sq foot indoor aquatic fitness center and day spa, with several heated pools, lockers, steam rooms, saunas, etc... It will be in my wife's name ONLY – Disability can not do a damn thing about that – I might work now and then for her, with very little income. Therefore I must hang in there until all is in process. Rest assured – that if I am having trouble working – that is it for the day. DAMN – you ask a simple question and you get a diary in response – as I have said before – I ramble.