Merth

To follow up the one-line post from a few days ago, I have a lot writing to do in the next couple of weeks. But, enough about that for now...

On a quasi-wrestling related note, I picked up Galactic Wrestling for PS2. It features the characters from Ultimate Muscle. The game came out about 5 years ago. The game controls are fairly easy to understand. The moves are ridiculous and over the top. In other words, it is awesome.

On another quasi- wrestling note, I also picked up the Ultimate Muscle 16 comic book. For the uninitiated, Ultimate Muscle is a cartoon/comic created in Japan. The Japanese sense of humor is a little different than the typical US sense of humor. The comic book is unique in that, it is about 300 pages. It also starts at the back and works to the front. Oh, it also reads from right to left. It takes a little getting used to. The comic book is extremely graphic with the toilet humor. Who doesn't like to see the hero take a giant poo on the head of the villain? The villain happened to have a toilet bowl for a head. The bowl gets clogged with Kid Muscle's poo thus gagging the villain.

On completely unrelated note, my wife teaches a weekend gymnastics class. She spends three hours each Saturday morning working with kids of varying degrees of ability. She charges just enough to cover the gym rental and put a little money aside for supplies. So, after about a year of gymnastics, she can afford a new tumbling mat.

As regular viewers of this website know, we have twin daughters that are closing in on two years old. They can be quite a handful. Taser-guns and sedatives are sometimes needed to threaten these girls to settle down.

Anyway, I was helping my wife with the gymnastics class. My wife found a parent who was willing to watch our twins in turn; her children would not have to pay anything to attend gymnastics. So, for the one-hour class, this mom would watch our twins while her daughters received tumbling lessons.

The mom did a lackluster job. One of my twins nearly cut the tip of her little finger off. Literally, it was hanging by a little piece of flesh. We had to rush my daughter to urgent care. Urgent care took a look at it and sent us to Children's Hospital. Children's Hospital Urgent Care sent us to the Emergency Room. The Emergency Room called a plastic surgeon. After 5 hours of waiting rooms, paperwork, screaming child, the plastic surgeon sewed the tip of my daughterÕs finger on. There was much rejoicing!

Fast forward a few months, we have received the bill from the hospital. We have insurance. Children's Hospital is in our network. The plastic surgeon is not in our network. Our insurance decided that the tip of a finger is purely cosmetic and thus the surgery was elective. Insurance covered about $100 of the bill. We are left to pay the other $2,250.

Our child's health was put in jeopardy by a negligent babysitter. Beyond that, if every penny from gymnastics goes to the doctor bill, it will take close to three years to pay for it off. Good times.