wasn't going to update again

[cornerofmadness]

But the anxiety is starting to well up. I have to meet with the lawyer tomorrow. For years I've been hoping someone will take my case. It may even be too late (unless I want to go for all the psychologic damage which has yet to be documented). I don't know. I still can't believe my hand can be ruined. That workman's comp paid out and yet be told that because a hand isn't worth much I don't need retraining leaving me with nearly 200,000$ worth of medical school loans and 60,000$ in retraining loans and nothing left of my life, my career or my identity. Now that I'm up here I'm hoping to find a lawyer who's hungrier than those in the big city, someone willing to work for the that measly 10% that the law says I might be entitled to for getting my hand crippled.

To top it all off I have my brother sending constant Pro-Republican emails wanting to know why I don't like Republicans (maybe because they constantly harrass me with emails and pick fights every time I come home.) My thought was you already have some Republicans lining up to block Bush's picks for the Supreme Court (i.e. Arlen Spectre. I can't believe I'm rooting for Arlen Spectre. When I was in politics I used to have to meet with this guy because we were both from PA and I always walked away from him feeling oily and dirty. Now I'm rooting for him to stop Bush from packing the court with Ultra conservative Christian Anti-Abortionists.

Then got into a fight with mom over the fact that I'm happy CA allowed for stem cell (not sure how they're going to get that past the national ban mind you). She's an otherwise bright women but she actually believes Republican party line about scientists shoving spikes into new born babies skulls and sucking out cells, killing the babies (no that is NOT how it's done. Neurotissue is highly evolved tissue). I explained to her that without stem cell research for diabetes that I could be dead long before I ever get to her age. ANd even if I do live I'm likely to be blind and limbless and I for one would like to see that research continue. She doesn't believe me.

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[palmaceae.livejournal.com]

Republican party line about scientists shoving spikes into new born babies skulls and sucking out cells, killing the babies

They said that? Really? why are they removing neurotissue anyway?

umm... how did your hand get hurt?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

They aren't probably but yes that's the conservative (which generally means Republican but that is prehaps an unfair generalization) stance that was being bandied around PA (which is the only place my mother would have seen/heard it). You saw what I wrote about what WI has on ITS radio about it.

One of my patients kicked me, caught my thumb and wrist just right and snapped my nerve. I have no feeling in my thumb, index and half my middle finger except for chronic pain and that pins and needles feeling you get when your foot falls asleep. Before that I was a surgeon.

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

I really hope the comp works out for you.

I dont speak to my family about politics, many a chirstmas dinner has been ruined over it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

No kidding re: politics. But my brother and one cousin LOVE to argue politics. I'm thinkng of making a sign, NO POLTICS ZONE and another where it's allowed. That'll be in the smoking room. Let them go in there. I despise talking politics even with people I know AGREE with me. (Youll note a general absence of politics in my LJ)

You'll know more about the lawyer when I get back this afternoon.

[rivin142.livejournal.com]

Wow. Sounds like your day was right up there with mine. My boss once again made sure to express her concerns, very loudly, that she'd hired such a malicious, worthless piece of shit.

I hope you find a lawyer. There's got to be SOMEONE. Hell, I'll make a website for you if you want, we can start advertising it as a give-away. :)

Your family doesn't sound fun. I'd say block the emails from your brother, and stick to comments on the weather with your mother.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

That website thing is so totally a possibility.

Normally my family is fun. Mom is such a total fangirl geeek she susually fits in perfectly with the rest of us. It's just since last year she's become totally anti-abortion (well she may always have been but never once has she talked about it) I'm wondering if she thinks I've had one...then again i think half the time they think I'm gay

[rivin142.livejournal.com]

[laugh] No offense, but wouldn't it take something of a sex life to get pregnant?

...You weren't sleeping with ELD?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Well mom found my whip so she knows I had a sex life once.

You know I'm sure everyone thought I was.