UPDATE: April 10th, 2019
tomorrow, i go for a 7:30 AM appointment with the court ordered IME doctor.
the judge had already sent over a package from both my lawyer, and the insurance lawyer.
I will take my most recent x-rays, and the MRI and CT scan disks from 2017 (but he will have those reports as well)
to this day, even though it has only been since january for this current suregry, i still cannot stand up for more than about 20 minutes at a time.
my left foot is still numb, albeit, only half the foot is numb, like from the middle toe, all the way back to the heel, on the left half of that foot, (not the entire foot as before this surgery)
like many other homes, in your bathroom, you have to slightly lean over the sink, to wash your face, so that you can shave....when i do this and straighten up, i am reminded with pains.
when i get up off a desk chair, such as behind this computer, i am walking hunched over for several steps, before i can straighten up.
i still have not even been to the physical therapy place to hand in the slip to start p/t...
reason being, well....i want MORE healing time, and i have no need to rush this, as i am already on a percentage of SSDI and workman's comp still.
this means of course, that i am officially retired, so why rush anything from this point?
this court ordered doctor i will be seeing, is the very one since way back when the insurance doctor....Dr. NO or Dr. Denial, refused to agree that i needed more surgery or revisions.
Dr. NO, had dictated his report, and then he signed it, saying that i am totally disabled......later, he tried retracting that, and my lawyer quickly petitioned the court for this second opinion.
i said earlier that i cannot stand for very long, i also cannot walk for long distances as well, which ticks me off, cuz i have been leasing a car now for over 2 years...ok..and so..?
well, i park far away from the stores doors, as all the nitwits want to park up real close to the building, you know, like truckers do at truck stops?
well if anyone has ever leased a vehicle...guess what......YOU PAY FOR ALL DAMAGES done to that vehicle
i have already paid out $800 + car rental fee's for some ahole, that pushed a shopping cart into my front bumper, when i went to either a Lowe's or Home Depot.
no matter where you park at those places, you have runaway carts, and carriages...
cha-ching.....new front bumper, paint, and car rental...cha-ching.....
so given that i have to pay for damages, i park as far away as i can, now comes the inability to walk for very long.
in my state, NO...i cannot get a handicapped parking permit.....
why..??
i don't need a cane to walk.........i have no breathing problems.....i have no heart condition.
could i lie about the need for a handicapped parking permit..??
i suppose i could, but then it's not in me to lie about something just to get something.
if on the other hand, when i go and see my surgeon in a few weeks, if HE SAYS< that i should walk with a cane, then i will ask him to write up a script.
but otherwise......i will not push that issue.