Mayo Clinic opens at 6:30 AM - and is open until 5:30 - 6:00, depending on the department! Isn't that crazy? Our first appointment again today was at 7:00 am (thankful it wasn't at 6:30 :) )! We were delayed for almost 2 hours dealing with insurance issues and the business office before they could do the 2 MRI's that were ordered. Our insurance takes up to 2 days to approve MRI's so, they were going to have us make an $8000.00 deposit, just in case it wasn't covered! Fortunately (and a prayer later), the business office manager came out and said that because we have Military insurance, we would not have to make the deposit, and they would go ahead with the test if we would like. It is a necessary tool to affirm the diagnosis, so we went ahead with the test. We are just praying that it will be covered!
From that appointment we went to the Urology consult, to an information lecture on using a machine to measure the oxygen content of the blood while you sleep, and then on for the Lumbar Puncture. Fortunately today we were finished by 4:30. We grabbed a quick dinner, went by the grocery store to pick up a few snack items and sandwich "fixings", so we won't have to eat out each meal. We start tomorrow at 7:00 again, so early to bed tonight!
Today we saw people in wheelchairs, small children with no hair due to chemo, patients that had to carry with them the very oxygen necessary for life. I heard a man that was setting behind me call his wife and tell her that he had cancer. ........ I counted my blessings.
Linda
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