Shattered Sun

We have a 10 percent coinsurance on all surgeries. Not that bad, if you think about it. Except, the first time I called regarding the amount for Zacky’s upcoming surgery, it was looking to be around $650! Talk about OUCH! I called today and found out that my insurance has a contract with the surgicenter and BAM, I only have to pay $154.20. You have to love a contract that cuts almost $4k off a surgery!

Because while my site was offline due to my jackass hosting, I was writing down my entries that I would have written! Who knew that the times I had stuff to say, the site would disappear on me? Wonder where my site’s been? On vacation to nonPHP land. They had to reinstall PHP for my site. And they had the nerve to tell me that it was my fault before they reinstalled. I told them that it worked on Tuesday. Then it didn’t work on Wednesday. You guys are my back up that I don’t have time to do anything much less break my site!

Anyway, probably tomorrow I’ll backpost all the posts that I have written out in long hand. I think y’all might enjoy what I have to say. Then again, maybe not. But it was stuff I had to write about.

Backposted to Thursday, October 21st.

As with all doctor visits, you have good news and bad news. Today was an interesting mix of both. We found out that he hasn’t lost all hearing in his left ear. Removing the polyp did bring some of it back. We also found out that he has Cholesteatoma. Check out that google link and you’ll get a whole wealth of information plus some pictures you may not want to see!

He does have the max amount of conductive hearing loss you can have. The pressure in his ear is so strong that it has imploded everything into his middle ear. The mastoid cyst is eroding the bones in his ear and he’ll be having his middle ear bones completely replaced. The bone erosion is not as bad as it could be, but it’s still there.

The surgery will entail removing the cyst, cleaning all the “gunk” out of the ear and mastoid, reconstruction of the mastoid & ear drum, and some drilling. It’s slated for a two hour window, which is quite long for outpatient care. We do have to wait two weeks for the surgery to happen, but there are worse waits.

So, I’m back dating this to the 20th of October, since that’s when I originally wrote it.

It was one of those days. I woke up late, didn’t make lunch, forgot all my money at home, and things just got progressively worse. If you play Playstation, you’ll understand the title! Anyway, there were some good parts. Like almost no one was at the office today due to sales training. And Jayson nicely brought money down to me and had lunch with me. It is always nice to be able to have lunch with him! It’s such a rarity! I ended up leaving work a bit early, too. Why you ask? Because I wanted to and Zacky has an appointment tomorrow with his ear surgeon. I don’t really want this to be taken care of but I do. I think it’s more a case of just not wanting to deal with the surgery/ies. Any parent out there can understand how that goes. Okay, off to bed with me. I have to get up fairly early to get Sam off to school and then get to Zack’s appt.

Wowzers. Have you heard of Ogo yet? I WANT THIS! Actually, I want this now. I just need ooooo, $160 or so. Looks sweet though. And coverage is everywhere. And I’d have something to do on my commute. And I’d get to post from the bus thanks to email. I really, really, really, really want this. I’m thinking… Early birthday present? lol! :block: