Hey all, I really do not have much to update on right now. I am still having very little pain and am recovering very well. I am getting around easier and am starting to get more energy. Car rides are still painful for me, but I made it over an hour to my parents house without my neck brace on! I was supposed to go back to work tomorrow, but I work at a school and they are closed due to the frigid temperatures (-50 Fahrenheit with the wind chills!!) so I have one more day to rest up. I am ready to go back to work! I love working with the kids and seeing my friends at work.
I have not yet made my appointment with an endocrinologist like I need to because I am currently undergoing a change of insurance. Hopefully within the next couple of weeks this will take effect. It looks like my neurologist is covered, who I will need to see again in February, but we are not sure yet about my other specialists. I need to find out if my neurosurgeon, ear-nose-throat, orthopedic surgeon and the geneticist I am on the wait list for are covered by this new insurance. It will be difficult to switch over insurances, but in the long run will save my family a significant amount of money without sacrificing my care.
I got new serum for my allergy shots a couple of months back, but just started using the new vial right before we left for New York. For the first few weeks I need to do a shot every week instead of every other week like I normally do. I have one more shot to do on Thursday and then I get to go back to every other week! I struggle to remember to do my shot, so it will be nice to get back to my usual schedule!
Right now we are battling my current insurance over a couple of things. For some reason they do not want to cover the compression stockings I got a couple of months ago. They are claiming that they do not cover them even though we called the insurance company multiple times to make sure that they were covered. We need to write a letter to the insurance company in order to appeal this decision. Secondly, one of my medications requires pre-authorization from my insurance now. We are not sure exactly why, but I now need to get my neurologist to fax over some paperwork to my insurance in order to get the prescription covered by insurance. Finally, during my craniocervical fusion an outside company was apparently used to monitor my sensory and motor functions. This is fine except for my insurance is now saying that this is an out of network expense. This service was nearly $10,000 though.... The insurance company is currently reviewing this, so we will not have any information for the next 30 days or so on this. Please pray that this goes over smoothly and everything works out well!
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