Well, this is a long awaited post. I kept hoping I would have SOME news before blogging about everything but unfortunately, it looks like I may have to wait quite awhile. So, here goes nothing about what little I know.
For those who hadn't been told yet, we WERE expecting another little person in October and we were SO excited. We had been trying for several months, planning for longer than that, and then started the process of preparing the house (hence the decluttering that has come to a grinding halt). Well, spring break was not a great one for the Birdwell household. Jeremy has been battling a migraine and possible ear infection, we got word that Bullfrog might have a perforated ear drum (has an appointment tomorrow with an ENT and we will know more then) and then I lost my child on Friday. Which is when the blessing turned into a nightmare. I am currently in the state of an incomplete miscarriage in which my doctor wants to perform a 20 minute operation to finish the process. We found out the baby had no heartbeat on Friday after being 10 weeks along. Friday night I nearly ended up in the ER and should have gone in (hindsight's 20/20). Planned the d&c on Tuesday but found out the insurance wasn't going to pay anything until we paid our $2000 deductible. There is no guarantee they would pay 100% after that as we have a family deductible as well. I researched online and found that there is a medication that I could be prescribed but the nurses at my dr office CLAIM that the d&c is the only option outside of waiting it out. They want me to opt for the payment plan. I am sorry but that would be my entire paycheck for a year to get it all paid off and I am not about to put our family in a financial bind for something that women have dealt with for years without medical intervention. We had a reschedule for tomorrow because the dr was going to take on the insurance but obviously that went bunk so surgery cancelled, again. At least I am cleared to work again. It is really hard to get past this when it keeps rearing its ugly head and reminding me.
So, I am starting to make new goals because this has set me way back in the house area. I haven't been able to do much until the past day or so and I am still pretty fatigued. My first major goal is to do more things with my kids so that I will hopefully boost my energy a bit. I am trying to be happy for family and friends who are due in the next few months but right now, I apologize, it is hard. The next big thing on my goal list is to get help to paint our kids' walls back to white and redo the garden so we can plant something. Keep my hands and mind occupied.
Bullfrog will be enrolling in Kindergarten next Friday and he is super excited about that. Looks like I will be kid free from 8am to 11am M-F starting mid-August. Amazing. Not sure what I will do with myself yet. Sure I will book myself up soon enough though.
Peanut started 4-H last month but was initiated into the Oxford Hustlers a couple weeks ago. She is a Clover Bud and her best friend is an actual 4-Her. We have recruited one other little girl and possibly a second as I have yet to talk to her dad again about going. Peanut is so happy to have made so many new friends and she enjoyed participating in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Shawnee, KS a couple weeks ago.
So, outside of frustrations with the health care system, things are going okay. We are taking Jeremy to a Take Care clinic tomorrow to get his ear infection treated and Bullfrog will be looked at tomorrow morning. Hopefully it is just crap in his ear and not a perforated ear drum. Saturday we will be in Paola for a short time and then possibly have grandma and aunt time later in the evening.
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