Three hours later....

When you have a child with a lot of medical issues, you expect to spend a lot of time at the doctor, with physical therapists, in the hospital, and at the pharmacy. What you may not expect is the inordinate amount of time you will spend on the phone with the billing department at a hospital, with your insurance, with programs to try and get some assistance. In fact, I spend an enormous amount of time trying to get things handled because other people aren't doing their jobs~for whatever reason. Today I spent 3 hours trying to fax 72 pages to an assistant program to see if we can get some help with the cost of Lily's wheelchair. I have to do things like this while our babysitter is here. I would rather be taking a hot bath after all the morning rituals, but instead, an enormous amount of medical bills and paperwork must be addressed. So many things suck time, and I have found that if I don't shove the papers in a file, turn off the phone, and force some free-time in our lives, we simply will not have any. So, I'm essentially saying that after three hours of faxing away my free time, I'm shutting off the phone, and we're disappearing-- just for awhile!!!