Enjoyed being with the family last Sunday at Berthas. Thanks Bertha for picking me up on Saturday. This has been a very eventful and busy week for me. Where do I start. On Tuesday at physical therapy I had a problem with my left eye. At first I couldn't figure out what was happening, but when I went to smaller space (bathroom) I realized that with my left eye, I seemed to be seeing smoke, or dark cloud with black dots that were moving around. My occupational therapist said that I should have it checked out. That night when I was in the dark, out the corner of my eye I could see flashing light. The next morning, I called my
GP doctor and my eye doctor and left messages. My GP was the first to call and was concerned and made an emergency appointment with a optomoligist (sp) my eye dr is an optomigist and when he called he was pleased that I was being seen. Everyone was concerned that I had the beginning of a detached rethna, but I received the news that my condition was called posterior vitreous detachment. I will have to live with the floaters. This is suppose to be a condition that developes as we get older and has nothing to do with the accident, but I really don't believe that. It just happens to be on the same side that my nose was broken, that my lip was busted. I do believe that it was brought on by the accident. In addition to my sessions of pt, I also had an appointment at the coumadin clinic, an appointment with my orthrpedic surgeon and with my GP, and my lawyer. Every thing went well. I can start cutting down on my coumadin and in three weeks, I'll be off it. I'm now walking with a cane, I'll be able to start driving very soon. The good news with my lawyer is that we're proceeding with the law suit and my health insurance has agreed not to require to be reimbursed as they could have required. Whatever settlement I receive, I'll be able to keep at least $60,000 and not pay to the insurace company. My boss and her lawyer have agreed for me to file suit first because even if we deplet all of his coverage, she has a much higher uninsured or underinsured on her policy that I do and she can file against her policy. The only bad news is we heard from FEMA and we'll receive no help with replacing our furnace. Don't know how they decide these things, my former boss who is very wealthy, received $750 and our friends, the Suttons, who live on the same body of water and had extensive damage, received nothing. I didn't get my hopes up too much, but I was hoping to receive a little help. Still, I guess I can;t expect to get something for nothing. I don't know who I told, but Gene will be having outpatient surgery to replace the battery in his pace maker on Nov 13. All should go well with that.