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2009 Crapfest Begins!

Plecostomus

Plecostomus

Commodore
So. :shifty:

SWMBO has cancer, left leg. They are almost 100% sure at this point because she had another bout with this years ago that they want to whack the leg. :eek:

On the one hand this sucks as employment is unstable at the moment and health insurance is not a given even if I start working full-time again. Many companies have stopped offering insurance altogether now. :scream:

On the other hand, they wack her leg and replace it with an artificial one I can brag about how I'm married to some uber-hawt Borg chick. :cool:

We were just joking around how since they can apparently do arm transplants now why not do leg transplants. She wants me to find out how much it would cost to remove the legs from a 19 year old Olympic ice-skater for her own use. :wtf: Question is, aside from the MONEY cost I'm sure it'll cost me my soul as well, and besides what does one do with a legless ice-skater afterward? :confused:

The key to getting through this is humor, at least that's how I plan to deal with it. That's how I deal with ALL crisis situations. :)
 
If she got a skater's leg, I'd be worried about coming down from those jumps. I mean, one leg would know how to land, but the other one- not so much.
 
Crusher Disciple said:
If she got a skater's leg, I'd be worried about coming down from those jumps. I mean, one leg would know how to land, but the other one- not so much.
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Well from an engineering point of view we'd swap both legs out at once, that is provided we decided to go the comically over-the-top evil route with this.
 
jeez . . . I hope everything turns out okay

I'm glad you both have a sense of humor about it :)
 
Crusher Disciple said:
If she got a skater's leg, I'd be worried about coming down from those jumps. I mean, one leg would know how to land, but the other one- not so much.
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Bad form on a trailing leg will lose you major points... :D



Seriously though, my sympathies to your other half, Plecostomus. Hope she gets through it all OK in the end.
 
Holdfast said:
Crusher Disciple said:
If she got a skater's leg, I'd be worried about coming down from those jumps. I mean, one leg would know how to land, but the other one- not so much.
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Bad form on a trailing leg will lose you major points... :D



Seriously though, my sympathies to your other half, Plecostomus. Hope she gets through it all OK in the end.
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Thanks.

Medically speaking while serious this is the kind of thing we have experts for. That part doesn't worry me.

It's the insurance/payment aspect of the situation that bothers me. We'll figure it out as we go along.
 
That all sounds terrible, Plecostomus. Good to see you're trying to see the lighter side to things - a healthy sense of humour is a very powerful thing to have in life. Hope things turn out OK for both of you. :) :)
 
I am sorry you have to go through this. I will keep you in my thoughts.
 
If you look at it this way: if the surgery and rehabilitation costs an arm and a leg, you're already halfway there. :vulcan:

I wish you both good luck and strength to get through this Plecostomus.
 
Play along?! What you though this was a joke? I just got her in the effing box! You mean to say I wasted all that packing tape for NOTHING?! :scream:
 
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