KG's Hideaway

Yesterday was a most traumatic day for me. First thing yesterday morning was a trip to my pain management doc. I was dreading this for the last two months. They warned me it was painful, but good GOD, they didn't warn me enough.

I had a rhizotomy. It's done similarly to the epidural and facet steriod injections I get but they knock me out for those. They couldn't knock me out for this because I had to be able to tell them when they were in the right place. They told me that there are two nerves there; one is for feeling in your leg and one is for moving the leg. Kill the wrong one and you don't walk. Not so hot. For my epidural injections, they give me 5mg of versed along with prop, but for this procedure there was no prop and only 2 of versed. the one upside to not getting all of the meds is that I was awake enough not to kick and fight like I normally do. Trust me, no one was more shocked than I was when they told me a few months ago that it takes several of them to hold me down during the procedure. I was like, "What? Why?" They say that I don't like it at all... and I don't.

Right now, I feel like someone blew my right hip right off my body. It hurts like a son of a bitch!

Yesterday afternoon was my hearing from my work comp case in California. I had already reached a settlement with my work comp company but I had fired my attorney back in January for not even attempting to settle it, so when I reached the settlement myself, I didn't want to pay my attorney for a job I did. The judge couldn't let the work comp company give me my check until we'd settled attorney fees. When I signed on with this attorney I agreed to give tthem 12% of my settlement. Well, after WINNING my hearing yesterday I only had to pay 6%!!!! Afterwards, my adjuster for the work comp company told me that he really thought they'd never get my case off his desk because most people who end up being told that they were over paid by $60k never win it when they fight it... especially with no attorney. Well, not only was I able to prove that I had NOT been overpaid, I proved they STILL owed me money and that my attorney was a fuck up. I felt even better about it after I thought about how miserably in pain I was after my procedure. AND my check will be here by Friday of next week! Woot!

All in all, it was a pretty fuckin' good day!