Sorry I have not been around to regale you with my thoughts (which most people probably don’t care much about anyway). It’s amazing how much housework there is to do when your wife is semi-invalid and can’t bend more than 90 degrees or her hip joint is in danger of dislocating…
She is walking pretty well (with the help of the walker, of course) and ventured out of the house, into the car, and up to Hotcakes Emporium for lunch yesterday. Monday she goes back to the surgeon and gets the staples out, and (one assumes) starts physical therapy.
That’s only two weeks after major surgery. For something that has only been practical within my own lifetime, and which seems* like it’s only been really common for the last 20 or so. I remain amazed.
We have the best medical establishment in the world and Jugears and his ilk want to destroy it because it (allegedly) costs too much.** It is simply beyond belief.
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* I could be wrong about this. When you’re in your 30’s, you don’t pay much attention to this kind of thing unless your grandmother falls and breaks her hip or suchlike…and mine did not. In point of fact both of my grandmothers had passed by the time I was 19, and both of my grandfathers before that.
** The real reason, of course, is that you can’t control the serfs, er, citizens, if you allow them to have a free market in things that matter. Similarly, I have no doubt that our 401(k) plans are likely to be assimilated into the Borg Collective of Social Security at some point in the relatively near future. Alles muss in ordnung, as The Won’s spiritual predecessor was wont to say.
When does the revolution start?