Well, tonight was my last night at work. I am almost officially unemployed. I have to goto work one more time to do all of the paper work and once that is done so is my career at Delta. As most of you know it has been a long time coming. We have seen 2 pay cuts, 3 benefit cuts and 4 layoffs. This time it cut deep enough to take me out. This should be my last week at work but I am taking advantage of the system.
On 12/29/04 I had an accident on the Busa which left me with a broken leg. They fixed my leg with a rod down the center of my Tibia and three screws holding it all together. My doctor originally wanted to remove the hardware sometime in June but with the layoff and all I asked him to move it up. I went to him two weeks ago and told him that I was losing my job and before there was any change to my health benefits I want to see if we could get the hardware out now. He took x-rays of my leg and all looks great. He agreed to do the surgery ASAP. So at 7:30am Tuesday I go under the knife one more time. I figured now would be the best time for this. I don't have to worry about missing work, since I no longer have a job.
If I waited to have this done later I would risk the problem of the insurance company pulling the "It's a preexisting problem so we won't cover it" thing. Not to mention the whole problem of finding a new doctor if I move, telling a new employer I have to be gone for a month while I heal (after just getting a new job). Or worse not being able to get this don't at all.
If all goes well I should be walking in a few days. Once he allows me to return to work I will be heading up to Maine and try to find a job up there. Hopefully this will all be behind me by the end of April. This is going to be a very long couple of weeks.
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On 12/29/04 I had an accident on the Busa which left me with a broken leg. They fixed my leg with a rod down the center of my Tibia and three screws holding it all together. My doctor originally wanted to remove the hardware sometime in June but with the layoff and all I asked him to move it up. I went to him two weeks ago and told him that I was losing my job and before there was any change to my health benefits I want to see if we could get the hardware out now. He took x-rays of my leg and all looks great. He agreed to do the surgery ASAP. So at 7:30am Tuesday I go under the knife one more time. I figured now would be the best time for this. I don't have to worry about missing work, since I no longer have a job.
If all goes well I should be walking in a few days. Once he allows me to return to work I will be heading up to Maine and try to find a job up there. Hopefully this will all be behind me by the end of April. This is going to be a very long couple of weeks.
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