Surgery and Insurance

One day there will be a year of my little mans life where surgery will not be talked about or thought about. In his two short years of life he has already been put to sleep twice and had one surgery. Although it was fairly routine to have surgery at 1 is NOT routine. To watch your child suffer and come out of anesthesia is NOT fun. To be put in a step down from ICU is NOT fun. Obviously hospitals are NOT fun but sometimes they are very necessary. Matt will have another surgery this time on his eye in the very near future. He had an appointment with the plastic surgeon in the middle of Dec. They said it takes awhile for the paperwork to go through etc as they have to look over everything carefully before approving a surgery. Well its not the middle of Jan and I havent heard anything. Obviously i didnt expect to hear anything right away but i figured after a month something. WRONG!!! First i called his Primary insurance. After being transfered a ton i was finally told they didnt have anything and she wasnt seeing anything in the computer but that didnt necessarily mean they didnt have anything. So i called his secondary insurance. Same story. Called the Dr office and got a very sincere apology. I guess they were so busy with the holiday and MUCH more important eye surgeries that his stuff just got shoved to the bottom of the pile. So neddless to say NOTHING WAS DONE IN 1 MONTH!! She did everything over the phone and the only thing she had to do was email the pics they took him him to the insurance companies so they can approve the surgery. I just hope they realize that his eye does change everymonth and i dont want to start this whole process all over again. Selfish as this may be i just want to get it done and over with ASAP. I want him to have the slightest memory of this. I dont want him to remember hospitals. I dont want him to be afraid to go there. Is that too much to ask. Do they realize that he is just a kid?? This is hard enough on me to have him go under the knife again??

On a better note Matt is great!!!!!

Birthday

It was my birthday this last week!!! Im so old...well not really but i feel old. 29!!!! Another year come and gone. Its been the best and worst year. Last year on my birthday we went out to dinner with the family. It was nice. Later found out that my sister had her son ON my birthday. So this year me and my parents went out and met my sister her boyfriend AND cute Riley so we could share our birthday dinner TOGETHER!! The 5th is a GREAT day for birthdays. I was born on my Uncle Bills birthday and 29 years later another person was born on such a special day. I'm so glad that I can share birthdays with very important people. This year we went to CDA and had dinner at the Olive Garden. It was awesome and i couldnt have asked for a better day. We went shopping after at Target and i got some awesome organizers. I'm really excited to see what the next year has in store for me and to see if its a good year or just another crappy year. NO for reals....this wasnt a great year and i'm really ready for the roller coaster ride of life to be over and not have so many ups, downs and whiplashes. I know that I make my life..but golly i seem to get stuck a lot on stuff that happens to me. Its hard. Life is hard and i really just want to enjoy it. Just me and Matt....and maybe a few extra special people.

Me and Riley

Matt LOVES his pasta