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@graphicguy How are you feeling? Hope things went well and you’ll have dance shoes on soon.

Thanks.

I have good days and bad days.

They ended up repairing torn quad ligaments and replacing the hip at the same time. I think if I only had one of those done, I would have been better off. But, I'm not a surgeon.

Surgery was last Friday. They released me a week ago today. Hip feels weird, but that's normal....the old one didn't work and was made of bone. This one's titanium and probably way more rigid.

Quads have been an issue as they seem to tense up unexpectedly. They say it's normal.

Doing the exercise every day, which they say is key.

Oxy for pian, but boy do those make me wonky and foggy. How people get high off this junk is totally unreliable to me. I quit those on Tuesday. Tylenol is on the menu, now.

Son, Sister, heck even an old girlfriend has been swapping duty staying with me in case I fall. So, good support group. Go back Wednesday to see if everything's on track.

From the communications, surgeon says hopefully end of this week I'll be able to traverse to my 2nd floor bedroom. Surgeon says 3 months should be 80%. One year, all back to normal. Again, just a hip or abductor surgery by themselves would have yielded easier and quicker recovery.

But hey, I ain't got anything else better to do. Little PO'd that the summer is going to be relatively lost to me, though.

TIA seems to have been a blip, but no damage there that we know of.

Again, thanks for asking!

@pensfan83 said:

One of my gripes about Citi Field is that it's surrounded by nothing, same as Shea. Fenway is the complete opposite, an immersive and fun experience. Never made it to any of the others you listed.

Steve Cohen (the Mets owner) is submitting some serious redevelopment plans for the area around Citi Field to make it much more desirable of an area. It’s a double edged sword. A lot of those beat up auto body shops, mechanics, & yards are small businesses. Are they an eyesore? Yes. Do they provide a valuable service to the surrounding community? Yes.

Maybe, even plumbing supply businesses!

I'm nowhere near Citi Field. My place is quite an eyesore. The building is over 100 years old. I also provide a valuable service to the community. My business earns my parents and I a steady stream of income. The building where we run our business out of is worth more than the business itself. If and when I decide to sell, I have to split it with my sister. Between that, the capital gains tax, Government fees, & real estate broker fees it wouldn't be enough for me to start working for a rental car company.

Don't work for a rental car company, buy a rental car company! Think big, take chances. Trust me, I'm pre-law (or is it pre-med?)...

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I could never say anything close to that and keep a straight face. I was lucky I could get into any school.

5th grade was the 3 worst years of my life.

jmonroe

@mjfloyd1 said:

@roadburner said:

Six jobs here:

Private practice: 1982-1986 (lost my first election in 1985)

Elected Judge in 1986 served through 2008 (I only had opposition in 2002)

Senior Status Judge (AKA: Early Retirement): 2008-2014

BMW Product Genius: 2016-2017

City Attorney: 2018

Commonwealth's Attorney: 2019-2024

I loved being a prosecutor even though it was more stressful than being a judge.

If my math is correct, I’ve had one job for the last 30 yrs. One particular health care system is slowly sucking the life out of me though.

I’m sure between the health systems, the insurance companies, and mal practice insurance it is becoming increasingly difficult to practice medicine and focus on patients.

My former PCP can attest to that. My wife and I followed him around most of the county we lived in for 20+ years, as he bounced around from one practice to another. He moved to AZ for a while, then came back because he didn't like the weather. He left again on a sabbatical for the better part of a year, but he told us before leaving that he would be starting his own practice when he got back.

He did, and we resumed seeing him again in his new location. It grew to the point where he had two sides - one a traditional appointment only clinic, the other more of a walk in urgent care.

As we are about the same age, it was natural for us to become friendly - I've even advised him on a couple of car purchases over the years. He started complaining about the paperwork he was responsible for, and the bureaucracy he had to fight with.

He ultimately sold the practice to a larger organization, and the last I heard he was working part time at a practice up in Denver - too far away to see him. We're still friends on FB.

My wife and I are very fortunate to have an extremely bright, kind, and caring physician as our PCP. While my wife and I were awaiting a test result last year she actually called us from her vacation in Israel to explain the results and deliver the good news that the test was negative.

Water heaters…I had to replace mine a few months ago as it was failing. It was the original…which meant it was about 4 years old. 🤷‍♂️

College kids…I feel super fortunate with my recent college grad. He was targeting a job in the sports industry but, shockingly, that dream job of working for a sports franchise right out of college isn’t just handed to you. Fortunately, he dual majored in sports management AND accounting. He missed the window for the recruiting season with the accounting firms, but I made an inquiry with the partner of my company’s audit team who said they happened to have an opening for the Fall class here in Denver. The partner got my son an interview and he apparently interviewed well enough to land a job at the same big-4 firm that I started my career at, as did his mom, stepfather and my brother.

My son is realizing how lucky he got for it all to work out as it did.