07-19-2024, 03:29 AM
(07-17-2024, 12:53 PM)John Providence Wrote: Thanks Jay, my consult went well and the surgery is scheduled for August 16th. I will have to keep working with the H (I hate that word for some reason) until then, but it has been very easy since I learned what the problem was and my employer has been very accommodating. I am, of course, not looking forward to the operation and the aftermath, but this is the Lord's will for me for whatever reason.
Thank you all for your prayers!
Understanding employers, and especially managers, are a Godsend. So you are blessed in that area. Thanks for checking in.
"Hernia" has a sound like "hurt," and maybe that's why you don't like the word. It's not terribly fun sounding or elegant to begin with, according to our English-hearing ears. There's also two consonants in the word that aren't glottal or plosive...the word is very vowel-laden and "airy," and some people find that off-putting to hear. There was a joke in a sitcom I saw a few years ago about a TV production team, and one of the new shows in the team's pipeline had a working title of "Rural Juror." Every character hated it because it was hard to understand when they actually talked about it...it just ended up sounding like "rrrl jrrr."