Today Is Doctor Day

This morning, we had our fifteen month well-baby check-up with our pediatrician. In spite of the rain, we managed to get there on time, somehow.

The poor desk lady was very confused when I explained my insurance dilemma to her as I have been having trouble getting my LAHIPP renewed. As it turns out, the Medicaid office still is listing themselves as secondary insurance only even though the new representative with the LAHIPP office has said that my trio isn't considered premature now that they are a year old.

My doctor is so very nice about everything in spite of all of the trouble I have with my insurance. They even giggled when the insurance company insisted that they were triple charging my child for visits even though the charges were for three separate children.

In some attempt to aid us in our plight, she wrote three statements, one for each of the trio, defining prematurity in lay-men's terms, saying that they were susceptible to developmental issues and growth problems because they were born six weeks early and were multiples which means they were even smaller than if they were singletons at birth! You would think that we wouldn't have to have the doctor write such statements to someone who works in a medical based industry, but apparently, we do.

Everyone at the office was very happy to hear about us kicking our bottle habit. We didn't even have to get any shots this visit! Don't worry, the babies still SCREAMED as loudly as they could muster just to make everyone feel extra bad about prodding them so. When the nurse went to measure Vivienne and see how tall she was, Kian (who I was holding at the time) decided to come to his sister's defense by hitting the nurse as hard as a baby could muster in the center of her back. It's a good thing she has a good sense of humor.

The desk lady was nice enough to help us out to the car too. She stood with the stroller and the babies under the awning while I ran to get the car for them. She even helped me load the babies into the car and all of our many bags and stuffs too. I am so very lucky to have such a wonderful pediatrician's office!

Next, I had to run to Sam's to pick up a few things, one of which was the mondo box of goldfish crackers which is a staple of life in our house. Since Kai isn't even on the growth charts weight-wise, I am under orders to try and make him eat more (which may be very difficult as he will ONLY EAT THINGS HE CAN FEED HIMSELF & things that aren't mushy!) Luckily, the doctor did say that my other two babies are on the charts, but she didn't tell me where they were exactly on it in some attempt to make me feel better (I think it's cute that she does this as I am really used to the idea that they grow at their own little person rate that isn't like the rest of the baby world!)

We breezed through Sam's pretty quick considering we made a few new friends while we were in there and had to say hi to our old ones! One of the door lady's who is always so excited to see us, was on break but still walked us to the door and had the other door lady call someone to help us to the car because I was all by myself. She said that she knows that I can do it by myself, but that she had someone who could help me with our buggy and escort us to the car.

The last time we had been there, there had been a rather uncomfortable confrontation a few buggy's back in the exit line that had not ended with security. That poor lady thought it was over when security was called on the irate people, but as it turned out, the mean folks actually followed her to her car and blocked her into her parking spot in an attempt to attack her. Luckily, someone saw what was happening and security escorted them off of the property.

It was really nice to have someone help us out at Sam's. The man was so very nice, he even loaded everything into the trunk of my car for me and even made sure that he kept everything to one side so that I could get the stroller in as well without any problem! It was just a really nice surprise.

I stopped by and got the babies some chicken from Cane's (Kai needs the calories & the other two are only about a pound larger than he is so I am guessing they need em too!) Their little tummies are very full and they are currently all napping in their beddy-byes. My husband has gone to pick up my eldest at boyscout camp in Arkansas, and tomorrow I am taking him to Dallas to see Chicago at the Music Hall. Everything seems to be going well!