So Many Medical Bills

Ack! Just spent an hour talking to  a hospital billing service and then their collection agency about a bill we don't owe for - going back and forth, back and forth, between the two (sure was wishing for a teleconferencing service). What a pain! Turns out, the hospital never billed our insurance and we aren't going to owe for it.

I had thought the bill was for my thyroid biopsy, because I knew I already owed on that bill still. Turns out, it was for my daughter and we don't owe the money.  With all these medical bills, this one got lost in the pile.  I really should have kept on top of these medical bills better.  With them all piling up, it just got to be so frustrating!

Then I spent another hour setting up online banking to pay off a good chunk of these medical bills over the next three months.  Oh what fun I've had this afternoon!

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Pain, Lower Right Side of Neck: Thyroid?

I am having discomfort on the lower, right side of my neck and it feels like it is swollen. It almost feels like my botched thyroid biopsy I had a few years ago but I've not had a hatchet of a doctor sticking needles in my neck since the last "fun" occurrence.  I don't know if it is something thyroid related or something else.

I took a couple Motrin and am hoping it will just go away.  I did recently have pneumonia so maybe my whacked up immune system is reacting right now.

I do need to get back to see my thyroid doctor.  It's been too long since I've seen him.  When he reduced my thyroid dose during my last visit and it messed me up completely - I was FINALLY doing better than I had been in ten years - it irritated me with regard to him a bit. I need to yell into some microphones: "Don't mess with a good thing!"

Geesh. I was doing so good too!

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Growing Up Fast

I picked up my six-year-old yesterday and realized just how much she has grown in the past year! She isn't my "baby" anymore.  I literally have no more babies in the house.  Boo hoo!

The need for a city select stroller is no longer. No more pacifiers. No more spit-up. No more sweet baby smell (and not so week baby smell:)

I still have her sleigh bed crib in storage.  I have to hang onto that for sentimental reasons.  We don't plan to fill it with another baby.  That phase of my life is over.

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Added Weight = Back Pain

I've gained ten pounds.  I am not happy about the way that looks at all.  It all went to the trunk - no more curves:( It's also causing me a lot of back pain when I try to sleep on my stomach.  I haven't had back pain like that since...before I lost the weight to begin with.  Must be pulling my spine out of alignment?

Before I keep gaining weight and causing more damage to my back and spine, I need to get on a diet before I need laser spine to fix a damaged back!

I also have a vacation in May.  That's my goal - to look AWESOME at a healthy weight by May.

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Get Recommendations for Biopsies

I'm negotiating with the hospital who performed my botched thyroid biopsy a couple years ago - yup, still haven't paid off that bill! I should ask them how their malpractice insurance is instead of paying that bill. That was awful - too much anesthetic in my neck AND he hit something he wasn't supposed to with the needle. I was in pain for weeks afterward through my neck and arm.  I walked out of their real dopey - totally unlike my first biopsy that went so smoothly and was relatively stress-free (as stress-free as you can be thinking about  needles going into your neck) where I walked out of there and drove myself home.  My husband had to drive me home after the botched one and take over total car of our four children for a couple days - that's how bad it was! I can give birth to a child and have less pain than what this hacked biopsy did to me!  Then the doctor said he missed something and wanted me to come back for another one.  Are you kidding me? Pfft!

Who the provider is doing the biopsy makes a HUGE difference.  Definitely get references (other than the one doctor referring you).

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