The good news is that Chris finally got his 1st consultation appointment scheduled with the surgeon...June 11, 2008 at 3:30. The bad news is that the appointment will cost us $420...ouch! Chris has listed his old pick-up truck and his 4-wheeler in the Carolina Trader in hopes of selling them to raise money towards the surgery. Hopefully we'll have a good response but with the economy the way it is right now, you just never know.
I'll add that he also got a call from the Columbia Heart Center today in regards to the sleep study that he had done back in May. The results were terrible...something like 13 or 14 times that he stopped breathing during the night. They have schedule him to come back for another sleep study this Saturday night (June 7th) in which he will wear the "breathing machine." I guess this is to see how much it would help him to have the machine at home. I can't help but keeping in my mind that he has a $3,000 deductible on his insurance so all of the costs involved for these sleep studies and/or for the machine will be "out of pocket."
Adding to the financial quest of this whole situation, our dryer decided to stop working this weekend! Now, we really can't complain...the washer and dryer are 21 years old and we have never, ever had one single problem...it just HAD to pick now of all times to decide to stop working. Guess that's the way it goes!
I'll add that he also got a call from the Columbia Heart Center today in regards to the sleep study that he had done back in May. The results were terrible...something like 13 or 14 times that he stopped breathing during the night. They have schedule him to come back for another sleep study this Saturday night (June 7th) in which he will wear the "breathing machine." I guess this is to see how much it would help him to have the machine at home. I can't help but keeping in my mind that he has a $3,000 deductible on his insurance so all of the costs involved for these sleep studies and/or for the machine will be "out of pocket."
Adding to the financial quest of this whole situation, our dryer decided to stop working this weekend! Now, we really can't complain...the washer and dryer are 21 years old and we have never, ever had one single problem...it just HAD to pick now of all times to decide to stop working. Guess that's the way it goes!
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