Re: to Minirascal

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Hi Cammie!

> Ask 'em if they'd like to buy you a trip, wherever. (Never hurts

to

> ask, and you might just get a nice surprise! You deserve one, and

so

> does your husband!)

I wish. Right now we'll just have to settle for an afternoon at the

zoo with our girls which we enjoyed immensely today.

>

> And yep. I have heard that medical conferences tend to be top-

drawer

> things. All financed by the folks who make our drugs, appliances,

> etc. Sigh. Which makes it all cost more for all of us (although I

> have no real complaints about my expenses. My ortho was costly,

but

> good, and I would far rather have had his services, at the price,

> than someone less able for less money).

You're right but that's no longer the case. As of a few years ago,

the drugs companies are not allowed to give us health care

professionals anything more expensive than a cheap pen. In the past,

they did sponsor trips to medical conferences but that was before my

time. Only rarely are they now even allowed to take us to dinner and

that is without our spouses/significant others. If my husband does

go, he has to sit in a separate part of the restaurant and pay for

his own dinner. Maybe someday the patients will see a decrease in

their cost of medications but I don't think it's happened yet.

> I agree that your husband deserves a medal. It's hard to have to

hurt

> someone you love in order to help out. but so do you, because it's

> hard to go through the hurting, as well.

Yeah. When we were going through the first distraction, my surgeon

recommended that I hold a certain part of my husband's anatomy while

he turned the screws so we could share the pain ;-). For some

reason, Beau wouldn't let me do that.

>

> Ask him to make a list of snappy answers for you!

>

> I still remember the one about " We had a really bizarre sexual

> encounter. You don't need more details. " And " I came face to face

> with a rabid moose. " I love those two, although they were for

> traditional orthognathic surgery. As well as the t-shirt (maybe

you

> could transform it into a button) reading: " I look really weird --

> not that you do, of course -- because I just had jaw surgery.

What's

> your excuse? "

I could have used that this evening. Being too tired to cook after

our adventure at the zoo, we went out to dinner. I watched Beau and

the girls eat while I slurped down alfredo sauce. An older couple at

another table kept giving me the evil eye. A teenager that was

sitting with them (with multiple piercings of his own) kept turning

around to look at me. I'm sure they were saying that they were glad

that he hadn't gotten piercings like me. Either that or he was

trying to convince them to get his cheeks pierced, too. Maybe I'm

starting a trend! I should paint the screws a funky color and glue

on a few rhinestones.