All is Well

All is well with the "Rassie Family". I have been just awful in keeping up with the blog lately. I hope to be making entries more often.

In the meantime, Rassie is doing well. He had an early visit with this fellow. It will be his last. She is moving out of state and he will be under the care of a new fellow. Of course a staff doctor oversees his CML and that won't change. But all doctors have to start somewhere and his fellow has been just great through this entire ordeal.

We had a little scare this past month. It was a financial scare and not a health scare. Rassie lost his insurance. His employer finally decided the worker's comp case had been going on too long and they had to let him go. (mmhmm). So I immediately added him and the kids onto my insurance. Not thinking, I forgot to upgrade my coverage in the process. So when it came time to renew his Gleevec RX it was $500+ copay! Talk about a whopper! We immediately went to work getting assistance. There is no way we can afford an extra $500 a month. The hospital social worker has helped us take care of everything and through November we will have assistance with the copay. Come November I am upgrading our health insurance coverage and our copay will go back to the $50 a month. What a relief, right?

Onto the dreaded worker's comp. They really tick me off. They won't approve more therapy. They barely approved a new knee brace. And in the meantime, the one Rassie had keeps falling apart and has had to be sewn up several times. They're useless people who really get my blood boiling. His benefits are up in November and even though they're supposed to continue with medical coverage I doubt they will. We're already having so many problems.

For now, Rassie is a stay at home dad. He does such a great job taking care of the kids. And me, well I'm working at S&W in the cariology deptartment and I'm loving it so far.

Oh, stay tuned for the announcement of the Light the Night walk. Rassie and I are really wanting to participate this year and hoping to get a team together soon.

God Bless