Gary D.

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That'a a good one. Butthead. :D

Gary D.
 
Gee Rick, you and I aren't grown up enough to go there.

Hope we don't miss anything.

:rofl3:
 
Had an appointment with another specialist today and got some questions answered. He was the one who saw me and shipped me down to ER for the first IV 10 hours before I got admitted.

As luck would have it my arm changed color and swelled up while he was looking at it. He poked, felt, rubbed, twisted, squeezed and did what ever you can do to an arm as he watched how it reacted. The results of everything in my medical file, what he saw in January and what he saw today is that I have some nerve damage. Even at my age he feels that due to my overall condition I will make a 100% recovery. If not a 100% it will be so close I shouldn’t notice any difference.

He put me on 5mg of oral Prednisone for a couple of weeks, has me going to a hand and arm PT and HE’S LETTING ME GO BACK TO WORK!!! But only for 6 hours a day and back to a 5 pound weight limit on the arm. So Wednesday morning at 0800 I will be in the Marine Building. We have plenty of SS work to do which we might explain someday.

I go back to him next Monday to see how things are coming along. THERE IS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL.

Now for the funny part. Wobbles was there sitting in a chair when the doc pops up with do you remember me? Yea but I can’t remember from where but I know it’s outside of the hospital. He says you stopped me. Wobbles pops off with oh oh did he give you a ticket?

He laughs and tells the story. When he first moved up here he was towing a trailer at night and the wires for the lights broke. So I stripped the wires, twisted them together, got some electrical tape out of my dive gear and finished the repair. He chuckled and said he picked the right spot to move to and had never heard of a cop doing anything like that.

Small world. I’m just thankful I hadn’t arrested him for something. :D

Healing, just not fast enough for my liking.

Gary D.
 
Good to hear. I was a little worried when you said your arm was swelling.
 
Man, I'm really glad he's giving you a good prognosis of 100% or very close, for recovery!!

And see, all of this hard ass attitude and turns out, you're really a pretty nice guy to have fixed the doc's lights!! :D
 
Good News Gary. Looks like you might get to be an old man yet, eh?
 
This is a tough post to do but it’s time and I hope I can get my “Patrol” team notified before any of them read this.

For me to go back to patrol is going to take another few months if I’m lucky. That isn’t going to be fair to the guys and gals I work with. Then when I did go back would I have what I need to protect them and myself?

Today I got a call from the Civil Sgt. who I have worked for over the years in patrol, was on the dive team with and I have a lot of respect for. After our conversation and with Wobbles blessings, I have decided to eliminate that question by stepping away from patrol and taking a position in Civil. It is basically the same job without the calls for service, plain clothes and an unmarked SUV. I’ll still be on the streets dealing with all stages of humanity but on a much lower key. This position will allow the docs to release me much sooner.

I have worked every division in the department except Civil. I always said they would have to drag me up there kicking and screaming but things have changed with the division where we can act more like cops and not process servers. Down the road if I don’t like it I can always go back to patrol.

Nothing will change as far as the dive team goes other than working days as my normal shift. For the most part it will holiday’s and weekends off which is going to take some getting used to. Anybody know what that big bright yellow thing is in the sky?

Tomorrow at 0800 I’ll be at work to work for the first time sense January 22 but for only 6 hours. Even a short day is going to feel good.

Being put out to pasture:(

Gary D.
 
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