Two weeks ago our office was rearranged. Whereas I used to sit way off by myself (thanks to the recent purchase of our company and the consequent lay-offs, from which I was sadly spared), I now sit in the cube right next to the person who reports to me. I have people all around me. I also used to have a little conference room near my desk that hardly anyone used, which I occassionally used as my personal office, especially recently when I had to call my doctor and talk about my girlie parts. I didn’t figure anyone wanted to overhear me discussing my ovaries at work.
So, now I have no place private to call my doctor and set up appointments and all of that. Today I am working from home though, and I was able to make an appointment with a fertility doctor and request all my medical records in the privacy of my own home.
Next week we are going to see one doctor – we scheduled this appointment the day I got out of the hospital in August. Then the following Friday we are going to go see another fertility doctor – I want to cover all my bases and see if they are telling me the same thing or different things, and whose plan I like better.
When I called to make the second appointment today I was afraid that they were going to tell me that they wouldn’t be able to see me until January. But, they gave me a date in two weeks. Holy crap – I couldn’t beleive it. I think I thanked the woman about 1,284 times.
Then I decided to call my insurance and see if the consultations were covered, because I wasn’t sure – our current insurance will not cover infertility treatments, and I wasn’t sure if that meant consultations too. But, they will cover both consultations!
I requested all of my medical records, and I am not sure if they will all get to the doctors in time, but I guess at this point I am not so concerned – I am not going to be able to start anything until January anyway when we can change our insurance to the HMO that will cover at least a couple IVF attempts, so if I have to wait a couple of weeks for them to get my medical records after my initial consultation, no big deal.
So, in the infertility journey this hasn’t been a bad day. I have two appointments set up in the next couple of weeks, where hopefully we will gain some information and at least start assembling some sort of plan for the next months. And our insurance will cover what we need them to cover for the time being.
Speaking of insurance, we also received a bill from the hospital where I was for 5 days in August. It showed the total amount that our insurance company was billed. It was almost $20,000. Thank God for health insurance. Between my $40,000+ gallbladder removal in 2001 and now this, I would be bankrupt if it wasn’t for Aetna and Blue Cross. We just have to keep our fingers crossed and hope that when we change our insurance to the HMO that we think we can change to we are able to have a baby or two before our IVF coverage wears out after three attempts. Getting ahead of myself again. Better just appreciate that today was a good medical day.
