Life – Over The Past Month

I was out of work for 31 days, from August 16 until September 17. The reason is because I had surgery on my left knee, an arthroscopy of the medial meniscus. It got damaged somehow; the cause is unknown to me. It started becoming problematic sometime around Christmas 2018, but I didn’t really pay much attention to it. I figured it had to be something fairly minor which would resolve itself. However, it didn’t. And ultimately it led to my being evaluated by an orthopedic surgeon, having to get X-Rays and Magnetic Resonance Imaging on my knee, and finally having the surgical procedure performed to fix the problem. The procedure actually went reasonably well. I was at the day surgery clinic for about 5 hours and I went home on crutches afterward. I had instructions to follow, including ice, elevation, and compression of the surgical site. Two days later I was walking without the crutches and one day after that I was able to remove the compression. So why did I choose the above title for this post? It’s actually a little misleading because it has nothing to do with the clinical aspects of what I had done. I am experiencing an absurd problem with one of the two disability insurance carriers I deal with. One of the two gave me no problems. The other closed my claim 10 days before I was released to go back to work. When I looked into it I discovered they closed it on the date the surgeon expected me to return to work instead of the actual day I returned. I can unde...
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