• Mar. 8, 2008
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Well this has been a very stressful week for my family. My husband as I blogged about earlier got hurt at work at the end of July '07. He has been off work since August '07 and had surgery on his neck in Sept. '07. Well since his surgery he has had more and more trouble. He started having trouble with his breathing in Oct. '07 after his surgery. He had an allergic reaction to something shortly after being released from the hospital and shortly after that started having more and more trouble. His neck and arm were not getting better. We then found out that his surgery had to been done over. Due to during his last surgery when the dr was removing the herniated disc in his neck it fragmented and part of it lodged in the nerve root going down his arm.. Well they have been unable to do the surgery again due to his breathing difficulties. He is on several breathing treatments daily, 2 types of inhalers and several medicines.. Well the crazy workman comp people call him last week to send him in to see the dr. Well the crazy dr says he is releasing him to go to work on light duty until he is well enough to have the surgery again. So workman's comp is trying to claim his breathing problems have nothing to do with his injury or surgery.. I'm sorry but BULL!!! My husband was a healthy as a horse before he got hurt.. Now he is constantly in pain and has difficulty breathing.. He tried to go to work like they said and it about killed him. So I had to rush him to his primary dr Friday. His oxygen level was at 82% they got it back up to 93%. They said in no way was he able to work and they could not believe the workman's comp dr sent him back to work in his shape. He went to work Mon.-Thurs. with me begging him each day not to go.. He lost 12 lbs. and could barely breathe each day when he came home. He looks awful. He is black under his eyes, he is losing weight , he's not eating or sleeping. I ask all of you to please keep him in your prayers. And pray we can convince these WC people that his lung problem is related because as of now we have no income.. Because they dropped him until he has the next surgery. We are under so much stress right now.. but trying not to worry because I know that God is watching over us and will see us through this dark time. It looks as if I will have to find a job, and also homeschool our daughter. I know it can be done but it scares me. I've haven't worked since she was born and the thought of leaving her each day breaks my heart. I just keep praying that things work out and that WC do the right thing, the pulmonologist (we had to find on our own) believes that it is related so now we have to get his notes and pray that WC will pick back up on his payments. Please keep us in your prayers. I'm so worried about my husband he looks so bad. And I know that there are moms out there that work and homeschool, I would love to hear from you(How do you do it? What are the ages of your children? my dd is only 7)
Thanks for listening..
