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82Review of TENS Unit after Surgery for a Broken Arm
When I broke my radius and my ulna in early April 2009, I needed surgery to implant a plate and screws, as is common these days for broken arms. While I was waiting for the anesthesiaologist to make his...
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83OBX Fishing: Physical Therapy for a Broken Arm
As much as I was shocked and dismayed at the prospect of surgery for my broken arm, I was almost as upset at my post-surgery follow-up when my doctor mentioned "physical therapy." Again my first thoughts were...
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77My $20,000 (Plus) Broken Arm: An Update
Since writing about the convoluted medical insurance and hospital statements and bills arriving in my mailbox, I haven't received anymore! But today my insurance company's automated attendent was actually...
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56When Faced With An Emergency
I had been in a few emergency situations in my younger years, but the first time I actually got to use my High School Learned First Aid/CPR skills happened just a couple of years after graduating. ...
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61Spiritual Experience in 1985
Evelyn was a non believer, agnostic really, negative about anything ever getting better in her life, until something changed all that and two days after her funeral, she came to see me! It was 1985,...
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74My $20,000 Arm: A Rant about Healthcare in the U.S.
April 5, 2009 while visiting my sister in Bluffton, SC, I fell and broke my arm. When I finally gave in the next morning and admitted that I needed to go to the hospital, I fished my insurance card out of my...
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67HubMob Weekly topic: Removing Hair with One Hand
When you break an arm, you discover all sorts of things you can't do with one hand (like hair removal), but you also discover things you CAN do with one hand (like hair removal). I postponed my first...
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73Broken Arm, No Broken Arrow
Gabrielle is beautiful. The day she was born, I held her longer than anyone else did, snarling when someone else came close and finally relinquishing her when her mother timidly enqired whether she might...
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