Gall­blad­der removed….check.
No more pain…CHECK!
Lifestyle and food changes…Yeppers….{sigh}

Despite my health side­track, it wasn’t my doc­tor vis­its that had my blood boil­ing. It was my son’s. I have heard grum­blings for years about Doc­tors vs. Insur­ance com­pa­nies. I didn’t fully under­stand it and since it didn’t involve my cur­rent sit­u­a­tion, I didn’t care enough to find out what it was all about. I’m get­ting it now!

Now, here we are where a Dr pre­scribes my son 2 med­i­cines and are VERY com­mon and yet costs $900 a month (!) to fill. I about lost my uppers! When we tried to go through our insur­ance, they over­ruled the Dr, say­ing it wasn’t med­ically nec­es­sary for Old­man to have it. So now, the Dr is try­ing to get a dif­fer­ent med­i­cine approved.

What’s going through my head:

1. Why are you want­ing to med­icate my son THEN test him for var­i­ous things?
2. Why would ANY med­ica­tion cost that much…especially when it’s so common?!
3. Since when does an insur­ance com­pany have any right to tell a doc­tor what is med­ically necessary?

These are polit­i­cal thoughts run­ning through my head. This is a mother who wants the best for her son and some­how got caught up in the typ­i­cal Amer­i­can drama. I don’t know what the answer is, but I do know that I still have the right to pro­tect my chil­dren and myself from med­ical war­fare (sounds a lit­tle over the top, but that’s how it’s felt this week).

The upside of all this is a 3rd doc­tor who FINALLY under­stands our wishes and wants to honor them. Did you hear that? THIRD DOCTOR! The 1st Dr was a quack and the 2nd one argued with me, then agreed with me, then argued again and kept call­ing Old­man by a dif­fer­ent name. I have learned that no one is going to care for my well being, as well as the well being on my chil­dren, bet­ter than me.

…and that is what I’m doing.

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