Where to start? Besides the surgery for my hand I’d been waiting for a since Feb for a dermatology appointment to have them look at a Basal Cell on my cheek (I’ve had a couple of them removed in the past and it’s no big deal so I decided to wait on the VA for them). That appointment was supposed to be on the 21st . On the 14th I got a call from the VA to inform me the appointment had been cancelled and they couldn’t get me in until September!!!!!!

I was pretty upset and ended the phone call and took about an hour to cool off. I decided to call them back, get some more information and names and then start calling our 2 senators and congress woman. When I made the call I talked to a different person at the clinic and asked for the reason the appointment was cancelled (apparently the Dr I was scheduled for had left) and asked when I could get scheduled for an appointment. The scheduler told me he didn’t have any appointments for the day I was originally scheduled but he could get me in the following day (22nd). I guess it just depends on what bureaucrat you talk to. Anyway I made that appointment and it went well.

Then there is the hand. Instead of going thru the Choice program they ended up setting me up with a Neurosurgeon at VA Monday of this week. He looked over the hand and tests and told me what I already knew, that it would need surgery (apparently minor) to correct it. He also gave me some good news that at least some of the muscles might come back. He also told me that it should only take a couple of weeks before I’d be able to start doing some light work with the hand. He told me this nurse would get ahold of me in a couple of days to set up the PreOp appointment and schedule the surgery. They actually called the next day and asked me if I could do the surgery on Jul 5 (Tuesday of next week) and if I could come in for the preop yesterday…….you bet I could. So anyway depending on how well I type with my left hand I may not be posting much for a while. With any luck I will have most of the wiring done on the 37 before I Tuesday however.


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