Paul Crane’s Blog

A little while back I wrote about my safer form of exercise.  I thought I’d give you a little update on the condition of my last ride.    This is what my collar bone looks like as of this morning.  Now the doctor shows this pic to me and then says to me exactly what I’m thinking, “I know you’re thinking this looks like shit.  That’s a technical term.”, and that is exactly what I was thinking. 

He told me the darker areas around the break are where the cartilage is developing and that it will turn to bone.  The dark splinter sticking up on the right side is exactly that.  It is where part of the bone just splintered off.  So I have to lay off any lifting for another 2 weeks.  I has already been 70 days.

I had two options, surgery that would line the bone back up or let it heal and I’d just have a bump in my collar bone.  Dr. Collins told me that letting it heal would be just fine the only side affect would be the bump.  I chose bump over surgery.

This picture looks pretty bad but not near as bad as it looked the night I broke it.  I’m going to call St. Lukes and see if I can get a copy of the x-ray from that night.  If I get it I’ll post it.  Until then, stay tuned for the sequel to Paul’s a friggin part-tarded clutz.

We signed Tobey up for the Pets Best First and Wellness plan last week.  Yup, not only do I work for them but I believe in what we sell.  I’ve seen claims payments go out to people that would have sticker shocked me if I had to come up with that kind of money to keep our family friend.  Now was the perfect time to sign Tobey up, no pre-existing conditions, he’s new!  :) 

I hope that I never have to use my accident and illness coverage but if I ever need to it’s there for me, giving me more options for treating conditions.  My take on Pet Insurance is like my take on every other insurance I have, I hope to never need it but if I do it’s there.

 I have a cousin that spent around $2,500 to mend his dog after it was attacked by another larger dog.  With my plan, I would only have to come up with $575 out of pocket and the rest would have been covered by my plan.