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January 2014 Moms
aessary03
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Eye Doctor Vent
aessary03
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So 3 Saturdays ago I spent 6 hours at the hospital with Ozzy while he got his eyes checked. Since he was on O2 and lost a certain percentage of his body weight he had to have his eyes checked for retinopathy of prematurity. It's a whole long ordeal. He had stage 0 .... which basically meant there was nothing wrong with his eyes. They told us to come back for a follow up in 2 weeks.
That 2 week follow up was supposed to be last weekend. We found out prior to that follow up that our current insurance doesn't cover these appointments and they're $700 a pop. So I canceled the appt. not thinking it was a huge deal because Ozzy's eyes were fine. Well, on Monday my husband and I both got nasty-gram messages on our phones from the eye doctor telling us how imperative these appointments are -- blah blah blah. I called back and explained that our insurance doesn't cover the cost of the appointments, can we please schedule them the first part of January when the new insurance takes over? The lady was so freakin' rude and basically called me a horrible mother and said there was no way she was rescheduling and I had to show up this coming Saturday.
My husband called the eye doctor's office today to again attempt to move the appointment to the first part of January when our new insurance kicks in. He, too, is met with the same rudeness. This time, however, the lady said that if we didn't show up for the appointment that she would call CPS on us. WTF?! We explained the situation, asked numerous times to reschedule the appt, etc. It's not like we're neglecting our child. They are unwilling to work with us. My husband went a little BSC. He called our pediatrician's office to find out if they could indeed do this to us -- which they all thought was a little strange. This late afternoon, the eye doctor office called us back and made a "compromise." I have to drive an hour tomorrow to be seen in their office and the cost of the visit will be $200 instead of the $700 that it would be if we were seen on Saturday at the hospital. She made sure to let us know she was doing us a HUGE favor and knocking off an extra $50 off the normal office visit cost (gee, thanks, bitch). I'm so pissed. I could understand the dire emergency if Ozzy actually had an eye problem. But 3 weeks ago, he had absolutely no eye problem. Give me a fucking break. And to threaten to call CPS on me over it?! That is completely fucked up on all levels.
I'm so upset about this whole thing. I'm sucking it up and taking him tomorrow. Mainly because I don't want that bitchy lady to call CPS on me for no good reason. I pay a lot of money for my insurance ... I don't think it's too much to ask to wait an extra week for the new one to kick in so the cost of the visit could be covered. Do you? I think they're being completely unreasonable and unfair. They refuse to explain WHY it's so imperative that he be seen right away and before our new insurance takes over -- that's the part that pisses me off so much.
Here's some cheesecake for making it through all that.
That 2 week follow up was supposed to be last weekend. We found out prior to that follow up that our current insurance doesn't cover these appointments and they're $700 a pop. So I canceled the appt. not thinking it was a huge deal because Ozzy's eyes were fine. Well, on Monday my husband and I both got nasty-gram messages on our phones from the eye doctor telling us how imperative these appointments are -- blah blah blah. I called back and explained that our insurance doesn't cover the cost of the appointments, can we please schedule them the first part of January when the new insurance takes over? The lady was so freakin' rude and basically called me a horrible mother and said there was no way she was rescheduling and I had to show up this coming Saturday.
My husband called the eye doctor's office today to again attempt to move the appointment to the first part of January when our new insurance kicks in. He, too, is met with the same rudeness. This time, however, the lady said that if we didn't show up for the appointment that she would call CPS on us. WTF?! We explained the situation, asked numerous times to reschedule the appt, etc. It's not like we're neglecting our child. They are unwilling to work with us. My husband went a little BSC. He called our pediatrician's office to find out if they could indeed do this to us -- which they all thought was a little strange. This late afternoon, the eye doctor office called us back and made a "compromise." I have to drive an hour tomorrow to be seen in their office and the cost of the visit will be $200 instead of the $700 that it would be if we were seen on Saturday at the hospital. She made sure to let us know she was doing us a HUGE favor and knocking off an extra $50 off the normal office visit cost (gee, thanks, bitch). I'm so pissed. I could understand the dire emergency if Ozzy actually had an eye problem. But 3 weeks ago, he had absolutely no eye problem. Give me a fucking break. And to threaten to call CPS on me over it?! That is completely fucked up on all levels.
I'm so upset about this whole thing. I'm sucking it up and taking him tomorrow. Mainly because I don't want that bitchy lady to call CPS on me for no good reason. I pay a lot of money for my insurance ... I don't think it's too much to ask to wait an extra week for the new one to kick in so the cost of the visit could be covered. Do you? I think they're being completely unreasonable and unfair. They refuse to explain WHY it's so imperative that he be seen right away and before our new insurance takes over -- that's the part that pisses me off so much.
Here's some cheesecake for making it through all that.
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Jacob & Audra - married since 05.28.11
Emma Kate - born 10.16.03 @ 29 weeks, weighed 1lb 13oz and 13.5" long.
Emma Kate - born 10.16.03 @ 29 weeks, weighed 1lb 13oz and 13.5" long.
Ozzy Joseph - born 11.01.13 @ 31 weeks, weighed 3lbs 7oz and 16" long.
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Re: Eye Doctor Vent
Emma Kate - born 10.16.03 @ 29 weeks, weighed 1lb 13oz and 13.5" long.
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This exactly!!! Can you find a different eye doc?
Emma Kate - born 10.16.03 @ 29 weeks, weighed 1lb 13oz and 13.5" long.
TTC #3
https://www.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/retinopathy-of-prematurity/overview.html
"The first exam usually should be 4 - 9 weeks after birth, depending on the baby’s gestational age. Babies born at 27 weeks or later usually have their exam at 4 weeks of age. Those born earlier usually have exams later."
Glad y'all are going to file a complaint!
Edited to add: just realized I'm mobile bumping and can't see your signature to see how old your son is. I assumed 3 weeks but obviously he's probably older than that. So maybe he is within that age window.
1st, there aren't very many dr's who do ROP exams. Most don't want the liability. It's the highest medical liability of any specialty.
2nd. The exams are very time sensitive. Things can change a lot in a week. In my personal experience, I've seen things go from stage 0 to stage 3-4 in heartbeat. At that stage it's sight threatening. It doesn't happen often, but it can happen. The highest level of ROP activity is between 38-42 weeks PCA(post conceptual age) Most times ROP is self resolving without any ill effects, but no one wants to take that chance.
3rd. I have been involved in situations where child services had to be called due to parents repeatedly not coming in for appt. We would try working with the pedi's office first, but sometimes cps does need to get called. It's about the office covering the dr's liability.
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Baby Chugging born 12.28.13
induction due to HELLP
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