re: Bradford pear vase with live oak halo base

On a personal note, I haven't been in the shop much since April. I’ve got some back problems, and was fighting the insurance companies, and then eventually had to switch insurance companies after proving that my old one had lied in their provider directory, and they didn’t actually have a single spinal surgeon in their network in New Mexico. They would have paid for me to go out of network, but then I had to prove that nobody out of state would accept them because they don’t actually pay their bills. I’ve seen this before, and they will hopefully be the third insurance company I’ve gotten kicked out of New Mexico for fraud in five years.

Anyway, I’ve got a new primary care doc (my old one went out on family leave in the middle of this), a new insurance company, three open cases with the state insurance regulator ( one against the old company, and two against the new ) and have spent the past four months taking too many painkillers to feel comfortable working in the shop.

Surgery is this week. I’ll be coming home with more titanium in me. Hopefully recovery will suck less than the surgeon says it will.