I am having a bad day. My head is pounding and my jaw hurts from clenching it. Sometimes I want to pull a Jimmy Buffet and just go to… I don’t know, Margaritaville. I hate insurances companies, doctor’s offices w/ incompetent staff, doctors who don’t care, etc. etc. etc. Also, I think I put hole in Summit’s Froggie pool. A minor note on the big scale of things in my life that suck, but none the less an annoyance.
Summit’s pediatric cardiologist appointment that we have been waiting on for 6-8 weeks was canceled, NO ONE called me, then luckily I lost the paper and had to call Little Rock Children’s Hospital to get the info. again and that’s when they told me. My new appt. is August 20. The girl was rightfully embarrassed to tell me his appointment was canceled for “weather”. Yes, “weather”. They knew ahead of time that this Wednesday would have weather bad enough to go ahead and cancel all appointments. What the heck? This of course, puts his surgery into September if we’re lucky enough to even get a surgical appt. that quickly. His deductible starts over in October so wouldn’t it be peachy if we had to pay for all of that too on a new year, right after we finally met the deductible??!! I realize that a lot of my posts recently are dripping with sarcasm which my mom hates, but I think it’s a bit of a tension reliever and helps me laugh at the absurdity that is my life sometimes!
This then, means that I’m going to have to overlap him with my own surgical consults. This is NOT something we wanted to do, we wanted to pay for one thing at a time per person, but my jaw can’t wait any longer and Ben’s back has been so bad that we had to take care of him. On the plus side, Ben started steroid treatments today so hopefully that will relieve his pain and give him more mobility. His MRI last Thursday showed he has a tear in one of his disks and degeneration in the ones around it. Hopefully this new treatment plan will work.
The good news is that I got Fisher Price to sent me a “Splash” guard for my garage-sale bargain training toilet for FREE. I didn’t even have to pay shipping! I have to go, Summit is gagging himself with the pink hoof of his giraffe toy and I don’t want to clean up puke today.