Never Bored

We got home from the hospital with Matthew on the 15th of December. We had a lot of problems with the billing department of the hospital. We were supposed to leave at noon and didn't get out until after 6:00 pm. They had our bill ready and they were supposed to direct bill our insurance, but when they finally got the authorization (they didn't send in the information like they said they were going to do) they added over $6,000 to our bill for the insurance. We can't fault the care, but there were some exorbitant charges on the bill. One being $28.00 for a 4 oz bottle. Needless to say we tried to fight that one, but they told us that this is the international price for the bottle (which I didn't want or need). We paid it, but not happily.

Thankfully we have had no problems with Matthew since he has been home. Everyone else has been sick, but Matthew is healthy.

Yesterday we had to take Joey in for his surgery to have the pin removed from his arm. We got in the truck and were ready to go, but the truck wouldn't start. We had to reshuffle things a bit, but finally fit all 8 of us in the little truck. Due to some very fast driving on Jason's part we made it to the hospital just on time. Joey's surgery went fine. He had a slightly rocky recovery time, but nothing nearly as bad as his first surgery. We had to sit in the recovery room for almost an hour because the billing office had not gotten the acceptance letter from our insurance company in the states. Thankfully we were able to contact Aetna and they let her know what email account they sent the letter to and then we were able to go home. Joey was bored sitting with me in the recovery room, but somehow we made it through.

When we got home we found out that we had another problem. When we left the house in the morning we had very low electrical power. Unfortunately that meant no shower for me. We thought that when we got home the problem would be fixed. It wasn't. After a lot of searching and testing we found out that one of the electrical wires had broken from the wind and was causing the power spikes and shortages. This morning we called our friend Alan Jackson and he was able to help Jason fix the problem. Thankfully we had everything on surge protectors and so nothing was fried in the process.

We are hoping that this new year will have a lot less adventures for us. :-)