Left hand, meet right hand...

I got a letter today telling me that the 'manditory' (yes, that's really how they spelled it in the letter I got before this one) closing exam with the surgeon who operated on my knee in December 2011 has been canceled.

I wonder if they figured out they were about to pay for an exam that had already been performed at my request by Dr. Pain.

Department of Redundancy Department!!

I swear these people have no idea what they're doing. All they know is that they don't want to pay for medical care for injured workers and that it doesn't matter what they have to do to avoid that.

I'd be really interested in a cost accounting. How much money they've spent trying to avoid taking care of me properly vs how much money it would have cost them to just do the right thing in the first place.

Think about it. Simple, straightforward meniscus surgery. About 5 grand, give or take.

Instead of that, they wanted to argue about it. Exams here. Exams there. I know that due to a clerical error, I was sent the payment check for one of the 'impartial' examinations I was forced to submit to. Five grand.

I have lost count of how many examinations I was forced to attend. Litigation fees. Time wasted in court and on piles of paperwork.

I've spent most of the last three years in pain. Things still hurt. I am considering asking for another round of physical therapy/acupuncture for my right knee. They have to provide it if I need it.

If they'd just taken care of me in the first place, so much could have been avoided.

The thing I'm most angry about is the 10 months I spent walking around on a knee that was torn up while they denied it. And while I don't ordinarily wish bad things on people, I would definitely feel a sense of poetic justice if everyone involved in trying to shit on this injured worker spent 10 months with knee pain. I'd even volunteer to kick them in the knee to get it started.

Just line those assholes up.

Remember 'In The News'?

You may remember the mini current events program if you were a child of the 60's or 70's. From my quick reading this morning, I see the show was on Saturday mornings until 1985. It was a series of small news broadcasts, shown in between cartoon shows. (And can I digress here to say how crappy today's cartoons are compared to the ones that were on then?)

ANYWAY...

I found two news stories in the last couple days that appealed to my sense of poetic justice.

First, we have this gem:
Masked man tries armed carwash robbery but gun falls apart | Local News | kgw.com | News for Portland Oregon and SW Washington

You can click on the link, but since I am not constrained by having to use proper grammar and sentence structure and I don't have to tell the whole story, here's the short version.

Some dumbass tried to rob a car wash using a fake gun. Gun caught on guy's waistband, hit the floor and fell apart. Quick-thinking car wash employee then turned a high pressure hose on the would-be robber and robber ran away. With a sore nose, since that's where the water hit first.

Score one for the good guys.

Then, this one from the local newspaper: Intruder picks the wrong victim
(Yes, that is my comment posted first on the newspaper's website.) Here's the shortened version in case you don't want to follow the link.

A naked pervert walked into the home of an elderly lady (88 years old!) and tried to hurt her. She grabbed him where it counts and gave him a good hard squeeze. He did not like it and left. And the cops caught him.
I think it's relevant to mention the man's name is 'Dick'. Seriously.

Score another one for the good guys.