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went to orthopedic today......
hillbille
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and was basically told he didn't think therapy would do any good but if I wanted he would go that route, I told him no if surgery was what was coming to go ahead and get it done. January 28th was the earliest date, I guess I can make it another two months, my birthday is in january so I guess this year I get a new hip...........
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yes and no, Trump started a new program called comunity care, my understanding is it replaced the choice program, which let you go out of system if treatment/procedure would be more than 30 days, now if it is over a certain distance or burden they will let you go local and pay for the full thing. I would have had to had the surgery in pittsburg as it was closest and it is 3 hour drive. I am having it done in town by local orthopedic who turns out to be the same one who did both of my wifes knees. it will be about a month longer than pittsburg but I won't have the drive or the follow up drives as everything including therapy will be here local about 15 minutes away. this will be the first time I have ever used this system with VA paying for outside service so I hope all goes as they claim it will. first hiccup was the VA sent a written report of my hip condition but never sent x-rays or the MRI, the folks in the local office did a x-ray and said they didn't need to see a MRI as they could see it was advanced enough for surgery. I have limped around all summer another month or so is no big deal....
Back in June I got to see a local podiatrist for what turned out to be a strange kind of plantar wart on my left foot that had been giving me walking fits for nearly 2 years or so. Then, less than a month ago I was seen by a dermatologist for treatment of some skin cancer growths on my face and arms. All taken care of thanks to the VA healthcare's new program that really saves this veteran a lot of traveling hassles!
The only drawback was the waiting times for the actual appointment dates which took about 6 months for each experience. For both of my non-urgent health issues I have absolutely no complaints!!
I will say in advance, that the first week you will probably hate the CPAP. Then, for the next week or two you'll fight it some, but you can still sleep some. By 3-4 weeks, you'll wonder how you ever did without one. When I go off grid hunting or camping, I (and my friends) notice a daily decline because I don't have one that works on batteries and it is to far in too rough of terrain to think about a battery and inverter route. By about day 4 or so, I feel like a zombie. I about fell off the horse on the way out of an elk trip in CO. Not because of the rough terrain or my own relative inexperience with horses (ridden very little since I was growing up on the farm). Nope, I kept falling asleep. They started talking to me more to keep me engaged and awake. I'd sometimes just trail off mid-sentence.