Well, guess what? Trouble with the insurance company again. I got an e-mail from Dr. Patel regarding where to meet with him on Sunday morning. Wow, he’s so dedicated. He proposed we meet with him at 8 am when all the offices will be closed and we’ll talk about the model. Does he sleep? But then, I also had an e-mail from the insurance coordinator of his office right after that. Now Tufts Health Plan refuses to agree to a “case rate” for the surgery with Children’s Memorial Hospital. I’m not sure what this means but it’s not good. Apparently, it means that despite the “approval” from all the medical reviewers some Tuft’s bureaucrat won’t agree to what the hospital is asking for so we’re almost back to square one!!!! Tomorrow going to be another day of calling around and trying to get this solved and we are supposed to be leaving on Saturday. This is so annoying. The insurance companies are hazardous to your health just by the amount of stress they cause. This whole thing should have been solved months ago and we thought it was.
In the meantime Ella has a full blown cold which she probably got from Netta who has been coughing for about a week already (I think she got that at day care). Also, from about noon on Sunday Ella was very, very irritable and crying and didn’t want to drink or eat anything. Etan and I were so worried because it is so unlike her. She didn’t have a fever although she seemed to be in pain somehow. We almost called neurosurgery at Children’s because we thought it might be a shunt problem. She went to sleep about about 5:30 pm. We still don’t know what it was (maybe the start of the cold) but in anycase she woke up feeling much better in the morning. She wasn’t herself yet but she did eat and drink. Since then she’s returned to herself bit by bit.