Okay, the money "gathering" process went a little better than I anticipated. After the frustration of realizing that in the end, the surgeon's office really doesn't offer quite the "financial assistance" that we were led to believe, I regrouped mentally and did some creative financing. I have taken out a loan on my 401K Plan and a loan on my Universal Life Insurance Policy. My repayment on those will be around $200/month combined so that's not too bad. That amounted to about $11,000 and we have the remaining $7,500ish in cash on hand without having to completely wipe out our "emergency savings." Whew...first big hurdle crossed.
I have to thank the BB&T Human Resources and my State Farm Agent, Frank Manning, for their help in making this "loan" process so easy. Both loans were done over the phone and we should have the money from each of them by the middle of next week. Awesome.
Chris had his Eco-cardiogram performed this afternoon. He said it didn't take long at all. As usual, you walk away not knowing anything. They told him that he'll have his results in 7-10 days. And, funny, he got a call today from Columbia Heart Center wanting to schedule his one-month follow-up appointment for being on the C-PAC machine. He had to inform them that he does not even have the machine because we never heard from the "equipment company" that was supposed to be calling us. I swear it seems nothing is ever a smooth process any more.
So...am taking a deep breath and will hopefully have more information on the surgery process next week. Okay...so much for the deep breath...Chris just came in and said that the transmission just went out on the riding lawnmower...great...guess that will have to wait a while and we'll have to get off our fat butts and push mow the yard for a while! Oh well...good excercise, right? Might not be such a bad idea if it were not mid-July in the heart of SC...welcome to hell!!! :)
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