Current mood:
bitchy I'm sick so that don't help much.
A new pediatrician in town has dx my dc with autism. What ever gives you that idea? Don't mean to be snarky it's just frustrating because back in the day when it would have mattered and made a difference it couldn't be done. Now I get it regularly but still doesn't change things. There are no wonderful programs here to help my kiddos. So what's the use... She did give me a scrip for the incontinence supplies.
So I took it in to get the scrip filled and nothing but attitude. The clerk is such a snob and witch that I am amazed she don't break her neck tripping over the cluttered show room.
She took a look at the prescriptions and her attitude went from neutral to snooty.
She demanded ID 1st. Insisted that I had to show 2 forms. Plus had to bring the kids in to match their photo id with them. She wouldn't accept our state IDs. She wouldn't accept them because they are paper not the real thing. Doesn't matter that we got them from the DMV and they are on special paper and have the DMV seal and are legit and to be used until the real ones show up, and show just what our state ID's will show picture and information. So I had to use our school id's. Oh those were just barely good enough because they were made out of thick plastic like our state ID's will be made out of. She wasn't happy that they were cleared to be used. lol (best $20 I spent
)Then she saw the Medicaid cards. Where those good enough NO. She demanded other insurance. Well we ain't got other insurance. IF we did you'd of gotten that card shown to you. Also, if we could get other insurance do you think we'd have Medicaid? sheesh. So she has to measure the kids and she got really nasty when I asked her to explain what she wanted. Not just hand me a tape measure and say measure them. I wasn't sure if they needed 2 measurements or just 1. turns out she needed 3. So it's a good thing she did the measuring herself.
Once she was done I sent the kids back out to the car. Too many shiny objects like wheelchairs, walkers, canes, comodes, chairs that move, etc. I could see that there little eyes where darting around and the gears where turning trying to figure out what to get into that would cause the most sensory pleasure while also creating the most havoc.
She finished filling out the paperwork and then said she'd give us a call later that day or the next afternoon. I had to ask her 3 times to get the medicaid cards back and I had to ask her 4 times for our id's back. Why she wouldn't just hand them back is beyond me.
She never calls until Friday. 1 hour before close. She calls to tell me I have to have $393.00 in cash to her in 20 minutes or the deal is off on the kids getting their supplies. Why? because I have to buy one of each brand that they carry and have the children try them out. then once a brand is found that they can use and will work for them. the script can be filled out. Why? because no brand was written on the script. Also, they are only allowed to bill Medicaid 1 time per month. So they can't bill Medicaid until they know what brand the child would be getting. I asked if this was a copay and was told no this was my responsibility for using Medicaid.
I asked for it to be put in writing and it was refused. Then she agreed to have a letter for me on Monday. Come Monday she didn't have a letter. I asked why what happened to the letter and she stated that Medicaid would cover it so the letter wasn't needed. I told her that I had sought help to get her the money she requested and needed the letter for the deal to go through. She stated no letter because insurance covered it. I asked what changed in 48 hours? and she said nothing had changed so I said where's the letter? She then wanted to charge me $70.20 for a copay. Now what chickie poo didnt' know is that I called medicaid's office before entering her shop. I learned that what she was pulling was bogus. That there would be no copay because of the medical dx the dc where given and because they are still Under the age of 21. She refused to let me have the items without paying the copay. I refused to pay the copay that was false unless she would put it in writing that I was paying a copay and give me a receipt. She refused. So... I ran out of time. I had to pick my son up from his counseling appointment. We left.
Because we left and because I refused to pay the copay, she canceled our order. I don't have the supplies we needed and she is telling everyone how I don't care for my children cause if I did I would have paid the copay.
I have signed a release so our advocate could talk to her. I am hoping that he can get this mess fixed. I have spoken to others and learned that she is the worst person to deal with in the office. I am working on a letter of complaint to give to her supervisor. What is very sad is this place is part of the Catholic Non profit hospital which is suppose to be full of compassion. That other agencies and lots of people talk to others about as being wonderful and fabulous for those like myself who need compassion and understanding. No they aren't there just as money hungry as the for profit places if not worse. GRRR...
My other friend has a teenage daughter who is pregnant. The girl is not doing very well. She's really looking horrible. Thin, dark circles, lank hair, and pale complexion she looks like death warmed over. It's a radical change from the girl I saw in June to how she looked this week when I saw her. There's a history in the family of preterm labor with babies coming as early as 8 weeks. It looks like the back ache she's been having for the last week is the beginnings of labor. It's fearful that she will have the baby too soon. Her due date is Thanksgiving Day. I'm worried about her. Not because she doesn't have family and support but because I see this poor girl who has gone from having a bright sunny aura, sprakling hair, clear radiant skin, and a good attitude to being a corpse with white pasty skin, dull hair, and a dingy barely there aura. I can't tell you what it was today but I was extremely worried about her. I had all kinds of impressions and images come to my mind about her. None that were good. I did offer a Reiki session but I don't expect it to go very far. I'm just worried and feel horrible for her.
I have a neighbor who's bad mouthing us. She's afraid of her duaghter catching autism and CMT because her child didn't get vaccinated against them. She's been really trying to cause a stink here. She's threatened to hurt my kids and she's got the neighbor girl in tears. You mention the woman's first name which is the name of a cooking product and the neighbor girl bursts into tears and starts shaking. I am hoping to get my hands on the petition she's supposedly gotten going around to get me and the kids kicked out of our home because we are lowering property values by being disabled. Grrr.
I then have a friend who is so full of herself and who is making such stupid choices that I am fearful she will wind up either in jail because of some trumped up charge or because she was protecting the love of her life or she will lose her children permanently. She keeps telling me that losing her children isn't going to happen and that it's what she doesn't want to have happen and yet she won't do anything to make it so it won't happen. She's got her kids farmed out to live with other people. She barely sees them because she's got this "love interest". The talk is that the people who have the kids are going to file for custody of them. I can't blame them for doing that. I just don't know how she's so blind to it. How can she think its so cute that her daughter is calling someone else mom? How can she say that she misses putting them to bed when she never is there? She's never there cause she's with her "love interest". He refuses to call her his girl friend. He refuses to do things out in public with her. But let him get in a jam and she's got to bail him out cause he cares about her. His taking money from her babies knowingly and willingly tells me that all he cares about is her money. Otherwise, he wouldn't encourage her to leave her kids behind all the time, demand that she choose him over them and spend the money for them on him. It's a bloody train wreck and I'm sick watching it happen. I'm seriously beginning to question her mental state.
Then there is T. T had to take her child to a preschool screening. Her oldest is fine. Normal to above normal. Her baby isn't. The child is going to be 1 year in 2 weeks or less. the child tested out at 3 months. She is upset that the child qualified for services. No longer is this child her pride and joy but very disgusting. Spanking of this child started 4 to 5 months ago, and is now being boasted as the right thing apparently for this child. She is royally pissed that now the child will get free services but the strings attached are that someone will be coming into her house and watching what they are doing and checking to make sure the kids are safe. I'm trying very hard to not smack her to see if I can get her brain to work the right way. At least I don't have to worry about the kids being hurt as long as they qualify for services because the person coming to the house is a mandatory reporter. lol Maybe just maybe I'll be lucky and T will have to walk a mile in my shoes after all. one can only hope
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