Is it over yet?
December has been an absolutely horrible month! I won’t go into all the details just now, but hopefully things turn around in 2 days as I start vacation. While we won’t be going anywhere for Christmas, I will be attending to my wife, who is scheduled to have lower back surgery…the day after Christmas. This followed by a 3 night stay in the hospital.
Hopefully this surgery will alleviate the pain she has really suffered through the last few years, get her inch and a half back in height and overall give her a better life. We don’t know what to expect after the surgery or the recuperation time. Hopefully the hospital stay will be just 3 days. Thankfully we have many gracious offers from family and friends to help us out as she recovers.
More importantly I requested Family Medical Leave (FMLA) from work. I was able to obtain a doctor’s note from her physician. This will allow me to call in and take days off as necessary to tend to my wife, with no retribution from work in terms of time missed. This is easily something that COULD be abused, but it’s the second time I have requested it. The first was back in 2009 when I had my ACL surgery on my right knee. At that time I didn’t use it very much.
I suspect I won’t be really active the rest of the year, possibly 2 posts forthcoming. One will be my resolutions, which I have posted for the last 5-7 years. The other post will be the bombshell, so to speak, but we will wait on that information to help ring in the new year.
