Guest guest Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 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!) 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). And tell them at work that you need a " special assistant " for a week. Surely if you need a reason, you can come up with one! (Maybe you could even get Beau put on temporary supplemental salary for a week... That oughta pay for a bowl of crabmeat soup somewhere!) Golly, I knew that the docs sometimes have to do much more restoration for extreme craniofacial troubles... But wow! More than 32 mm, combined? That's amazing. 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. 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? " Or the true classics from Miss Manners and Dear Abby: " My. I can't imagine why you'd want such personal information from me. " Maybe, " is auditioning me for a role in the next Lord of the Rings film, and he's trying out makeup options " ?? Cammie > Hi Cammie, > Really, trust Beau to come up with lines like that. I wish I could > take him to work next week when I'm sure I'll hear lots more things > like that. > > Actually, I'm not the first patient with the distractors. My surgeon > has done a lot of them and many much larger than mine. He has even > used distraction to rebuild an entire half of a mandible after it > was resected to remove a cancerous tumor. I was just the first for > this particular kind of distractor. He had modified a more > traditional type to specifically rebuild condyles. I just wish I > could go to the conferences in person to demonstrate the distractors > since medical conferences tend to be in really nice locations. > Better yet, I wouldn't mind going to Germany to meet the > manufacturers ;-). I still think it is pretty amazing and am very > grateful for this relatively new technology. I never would have > thought that this could be done either. > > My husband is the one who deserves the medal though. I have not > always been as patient as I should have been and he's been the one > to get the brunt of my frustrations. Then again, working an average > shift in the ER puts things in perspective for me and I know that I > really have very little to complain about. Thanks for ever being the > supportive one. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 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!) 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). And tell them at work that you need a " special assistant " for a week. Surely if you need a reason, you can come up with one! (Maybe you could even get Beau put on temporary supplemental salary for a week... That oughta pay for a bowl of crabmeat soup somewhere!) Golly, I knew that the docs sometimes have to do much more restoration for extreme craniofacial troubles... But wow! More than 32 mm, combined? That's amazing. 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. 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? " Or the true classics from Miss Manners and Dear Abby: " My. I can't imagine why you'd want such personal information from me. " Maybe, " is auditioning me for a role in the next Lord of the Rings film, and he's trying out makeup options " ?? Cammie > Hi Cammie, > Really, trust Beau to come up with lines like that. I wish I could > take him to work next week when I'm sure I'll hear lots more things > like that. > > Actually, I'm not the first patient with the distractors. My surgeon > has done a lot of them and many much larger than mine. He has even > used distraction to rebuild an entire half of a mandible after it > was resected to remove a cancerous tumor. I was just the first for > this particular kind of distractor. He had modified a more > traditional type to specifically rebuild condyles. I just wish I > could go to the conferences in person to demonstrate the distractors > since medical conferences tend to be in really nice locations. > Better yet, I wouldn't mind going to Germany to meet the > manufacturers ;-). I still think it is pretty amazing and am very > grateful for this relatively new technology. I never would have > thought that this could be done either. > > My husband is the one who deserves the medal though. I have not > always been as patient as I should have been and he's been the one > to get the brunt of my frustrations. Then again, working an average > shift in the ER puts things in perspective for me and I know that I > really have very little to complain about. Thanks for ever being the > supportive one. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 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!) 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). And tell them at work that you need a " special assistant " for a week. Surely if you need a reason, you can come up with one! (Maybe you could even get Beau put on temporary supplemental salary for a week... That oughta pay for a bowl of crabmeat soup somewhere!) Golly, I knew that the docs sometimes have to do much more restoration for extreme craniofacial troubles... But wow! More than 32 mm, combined? That's amazing. 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. 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? " Or the true classics from Miss Manners and Dear Abby: " My. I can't imagine why you'd want such personal information from me. " Maybe, " is auditioning me for a role in the next Lord of the Rings film, and he's trying out makeup options " ?? Cammie > Hi Cammie, > Really, trust Beau to come up with lines like that. I wish I could > take him to work next week when I'm sure I'll hear lots more things > like that. > > Actually, I'm not the first patient with the distractors. My surgeon > has done a lot of them and many much larger than mine. He has even > used distraction to rebuild an entire half of a mandible after it > was resected to remove a cancerous tumor. I was just the first for > this particular kind of distractor. He had modified a more > traditional type to specifically rebuild condyles. I just wish I > could go to the conferences in person to demonstrate the distractors > since medical conferences tend to be in really nice locations. > Better yet, I wouldn't mind going to Germany to meet the > manufacturers ;-). I still think it is pretty amazing and am very > grateful for this relatively new technology. I never would have > thought that this could be done either. > > My husband is the one who deserves the medal though. I have not > always been as patient as I should have been and he's been the one > to get the brunt of my frustrations. Then again, working an average > shift in the ER puts things in perspective for me and I know that I > really have very little to complain about. Thanks for ever being the > supportive one. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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