A break from doctors' offices, please
Filed in archive Parenting on April 11, 2008
My daughter's stitches from hand surgery are coming out next week finally. We had a bulky dressing on for awhile but we are down to just regular bandaids at this point and we add padding for when she wants to play or has soccer practice. Her hands are still bruised from the surgery and IVs. She looks like she's a street brawler, punching out kids.
Every time I opened that dressing or remove her bandaid I want to cry looking at her poor little knuckle all stitched up. Of course I suck it up and tell her good it looks. She's so brave, she looks at it with almost a fascination but then looks away before she peeks back. It is healing well and she's got most of her mobility back.
I'm just happy this is pretty much over. In the past year, she's been through two sets of feet problems, the finger problem, a medication problem and some other issues. I'm grateful to the bottom of my heart she doesn't have any chronic health disease because I know that journey is long and hard for people. However for a basically healthy child, this has been a lot and I'm sure hoping we are done with stuff for awhile.
The surgery bill hit our insurance - $7,800. We are still waiting to figure out how much we will end up paying out of pocket. Our bank account too would like to feel that we are done.
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Response from:
AdoptiveDad
(04/14/08 3:01pm)
Wow, $7800 for just a small cut? That's sounds WAY high. But I guess that's the nature of medical costs now. Best of luck to your daughter, I hope she heals well.
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Maggy Campbell
(04/25/08 8:22pm)
This blog made me really cross. Our eldest daughter was critically ill with pneumococcal meningitis last march. At the time I was seven months pregnant with our son and our other daughter was 11 months old. After a very difficult few days she responded to treatment and ,thankfully, began to recover. Because of the strain of menigitis all the family had to be given prophelactic antibiotics, including the baby, which made us quite ill. Then quite dramatically ,just before our eldest was cleared to continue treatment at home, our 11 month old daughter began to exhibit similar symptoms and had to be rushed into isolation to be observed for 24hours and we suddenly felt we were losing another daughter. I thank God that they are now both healthy and well and that the son I gave birth to suffered no ill effects from the treatment. Despite the severity of her illness and her proximity to death she has no lasting brain damage or sensory impairment. Not surprisingly in the numerous follow up appointments, hearing tests, physiotherapy, hydrotherapy and doctors appointments I never once asked for an end to all the doctors appointments - I was only glad that their were trained professionals to diagnose, prescribe, medicate, heal and rehabilitate her.
Response from:
Michelle Donahue Hillison
(04/27/08 11:02pm)
I'm sorry you feel cross about what I said but I certainly have a right to vent frustration about dealing with numerous health problems with my child.
I said I wasn't talking about more serious health situations. I was talking about what to us seemed like a never ending pile of problems that had to be addressed.
It was my hope we didn't have to go back to deal with more anytime soon - but we still are. Doesn't make me less grateful for the excellent care she is getting.
I'm truly happy your children are well - but I'd wager you are hopeful too that you don't have to go back and deal with anything else either.
I said I wasn't talking about more serious health situations. I was talking about what to us seemed like a never ending pile of problems that had to be addressed.
It was my hope we didn't have to go back to deal with more anytime soon - but we still are. Doesn't make me less grateful for the excellent care she is getting.
I'm truly happy your children are well - but I'd wager you are hopeful too that you don't have to go back and deal with anything else either.
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