New doctor!

I got a new doctor for the C-Monster! He is a family physician that specializes in pediatrics and also is a Psychologist, and I am hoping that the combination of these things will equip him to offer some new insight into some of the issues that C has.

At first I was very disheartened. Lots of pediatricians (in fact, ALL of them in our town) are full of patients and are not accepting new Medicaid patients, period. Then I called one place that made it sound like I could not bring C in just for a second opinion, which I had been told by our HHS worker that I could. After several long (and confusing) phone calls, I got to talk to a very nice lady at Medicaid enrollment who helped us find some physicians in our area. I looked them up and really I think this new doctor is going to be stellar.

I looked him up on a doctor rating website, and he got 5 stars out of three reviews. The boys' current doctor got 2 stars out of four reviews (3 of them were 1 star, one was 5 star). Also, if it is any indication, this doctor is booked until April with appointments, whereas the boys' current doctor you can get a same-day appointment with the doctor himself. At the new doctor they have several interns and PAs if the physician is not available, which on the one hand might be kind of frustrating but I think it will be better than our current situation.

But then I had to get permission from bio mom to change the doctor, since she has medical rights still. And our SC told us that she told him it was OK to change the doctor and she didn't feel their current doctor was very good. But I believe he has been the kids' doctor for a long time...like before they came to live at our house? So that is kind of confusing I guess, if she didn't like him then why didn't they change a long time ago?

But at least it is changed now, and I just have to wait about a week for the new cards to come. Oh and a bonus is that this doctor is about 3 miles from our house, as opposed to being about 30 minutes away - Yay!

Bio mom has been accepted to a new program, and so the case is going to have new team members working on it. So the old SC is no longer going to be working on the case, starting here shortly (yay! whoops did I say that , and there will be a new caseworker. Also it sounds like they will do bonding assessments for the three little ones and bio mom, and maybe some family therapy. C will be included in therapy and because of this I will be included in some of it too, apparently. I don't really know much about this new program but I feel like suddenly things are moving along, which is really what is in the best interest of these kids so I am happy!

And Y ate play-doh today and cried because apparently it was really nasty. Also he got green drool on his shirt. Just a little tidbit. :)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The news

In the spirit of this being my blog, and knowing that if anything were to happen I'd be blogging about it, I am sharing my news. So, several weeks ago I started feeling sick. We have been so lucky this year, we really haven't been sick at all which is really saying something considering the number of people who live in this house. I figured we were due, and wasn't too worried about it. You already know where this is going don't you!?!?!? A few weeks later, I really wasn't feeling any better.  Suspicious, I took a pregnancy test. Positive! What??!?!??! Yeah. Ben is 13 months old today, and I am 8 weeks, 4 days pregnant. Due September 25.  I am still nursing Ben at least 6 times a day, sometimes as much as 8 times. Apparently I have become Miss Fertile at some point over the last 2 years, after about 5 years of being Miss Infertile. There have been some moments of panicking, like when I called my mom because I was so scared to tell Brian because I thought ...
Read more

Big News

Alright, I think I'm ready to share. I was going to wait a few more days for more confirmation, but honestly I feel like all of you that follow my blog are my friends, and so if this doesn't work out then I am going to be on here crying and everything about it so I might as well just tell you, right? In July I started feeling really ill. I was having a hard time with getting out of bed in the morning. I was also training for a 31-mile race which takes place in October, and I noticed that physically I was just falling behind.  I religiously time my runs and I could see that my paces were getting slower and slower, and in the mean time I felt like I was working harder and harder.  I never felt well; in fact I felt downright awful. I just wanted to sleep all day, or at least just lay on the couch and watch TV. I had another symptom which made me very suspicious. My boobs hurt like nobody's business. Usually this is a sign that I am about to start my "surprise" pe...
Read more

Birth Story

Image
Before I worry all of you, I want to let you know that at 5:24 a.m. on Thursday, January 17th, I gave birth to a 3 pound baby boy. He is healthy and doing awesome so far. I was exactly 29 weeks into my pregnancy. This is my birth story. The evening of the 15/16th I was having some contractions. Nothing too crazy though. The morning of the 16th I complained to Brian that every time I moved in bed I had a contraction.  After what happened last week (having contractions, went to L&D, nothing was wrong) I just assumed it was basically the same. The 16th was my 30th birthday.  I felt pretty crappy all day.  I assumed I was either starting to get sick (since my 3 little ones had been sick) or else that my body was working hard to fight off the sickness. I went to the Social Security Office to request new SS cards for the kids, came home and took a nap, and swept and mopped the kitchen floor. That was pretty much all I did, other than making dinner and general kid ta...
Read more