Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 03:17 PM

Now if only I could remember not to prufreed on cold medicine. :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 06:39 PM

It sounds like you are coming out of the woods. I'm happy for you, Wysiwyg.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 10:17 PM

A grocery-shopping volunteer for January has stepped up, YAY!!! One more stick to take off Hardi's back.

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 01:04 AM

as you write, YAH

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 05:30 AM

Did I mention the two hernia repairs (which the pre-surgical CT scan did not reveal), that the surgeon did? Or that he only told me about one of them, post-op or in the ten+ days he visited me in the hospital? Or that he never did give me any post-hernia-repair safety information?

Or that the new belly button he made me is still draining and is not even in the middle, L-R????

I do not go see him any more.

But God is good; I think I will NOT have a 3rd round of complications, nor the endless rounds the surgeon I see now for follow-up warns me about. The two friends who had had a similar surgery never had ANY.

I will of course be careful. But not scared!

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 07:18 AM

someone somewhere said sticking-out belly buttons are the most chic - I wonder where off-centre belly buttons come in the scheme of things.

Susan, you could write a book!

sandra

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 04:45 PM

Susan, you could write a book!

Yes, but then they would have to kill me. :~)

I did start the Sick Bay today, thanks to a friend and her partner who drove an hour to help me for two hours. I left myself only the lightest of tasks to make it pretty and shiny-clean-- about as much as I already do each day at the "Home."

We then stopped at a couple of banks to move some money around for ramp construction and give the contractor his LumberBucks. Just in time, too-- snow and the hard freeze look to arrive this weekend.

I also took a few items home so that on departure day there is not so much STUFF someone will have to tote and I will have to put away.

Upon return to the "Home," I started packing those clean, freshly laundered items I will need at home which are no longer needed here.

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 04:49 PM

PS the friend is a priest, so of course we "prayed the new space in," in style-- she left my Prayer Book/Bible marked where she'd led this from, waiting for me in the sunny windowsill that will be my chairside "table." Near the glass oil lamp that will remind me that it never really has to be dark. I hope the cats don't knock it off and break it....

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 08:37 PM

back in the dim past when I had a cat, she thought the windowsills were cat walks & I thought they were pot plant stands ...

I eventually taped the pot plants to the window!

enjoy your sunny windowsill

sandra

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 09:50 PM

It's quite a deep and wide sill-- a bay window-- but you know cats must take 20 inches when there are 18! :~) I do have a rubber mat I can put under the oil lamp... when I get home.

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 10:49 AM

I was just informed that I'll get a new roomie today so internet time will probably decrease markedly-- I was using her tray table for a laptop desk and her outlet to charge it! :~)

Posting from my phone is too tiring....

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Dec 12 - 07:24 AM

patiently awaiting your next post

sandra

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Dec 12 - 01:03 PM

I go home Monday late afternoon.

A wonderful step forward is that two of the three "wounds" that were being dressed and taped twice a day are now only getting a light skim of A&D ointment-- no gauze, no pads, NO TAPE. They are the two on the front of my abdomen, which is the area that has been under tape since Sept. 13. The skin just plumb wore out from the adhesive and the removal rips. Now, my house is not at all sanitary and these rtwo areas do need some protection, so I will probably resume light dressings once home-- but in the meantime that pore ole skin is getting some healing time, to stand it.

One of the nurses came up with a much smaller dressing for the small incision on my hip where the soccer-ball-sized abscess was, under the skin. Think of it as a 4 x 4 bandaid. So it takes much less time to change that one-- and a LOT less tape all over my hip and leg.

The contractor finished the ramp yesterday. CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT!

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 03:37 AM

Home! Many new planets involved. Ramp done and wonderful!

One of the wounds that was not bleeding.... is... ???

A third item of my personal stuff is now missing. Hm....

~Susan

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 04:04 AM

Theft in nursing homes and hospitals is, alas, commonplace. One wonders at the management of such places and how they screen their staff who leave with laptops and jewelry and trinkets at the end of the day.

SRS

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 11:01 AM

Not staff. :~)

I trust them with my life, AND my earthly goods.

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 05:02 PM

The items turned up as I had hoped they might. (A casualty of too-fast packing when discharge hour suddenly became another Insurance Battle hour, ydy.)

I am almost unpacked. The three large boxes/hampers in front of my recliner are now only two, and I have a load of wash going.

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 09:19 PM

don't forget to rest!

Merry Christmas to you & wishing you a health-filled New Year

sandra

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 09:24 PM

Ol' hillbilly wishing you the speediest of recoveries and feeling good for the next 20 years... Not even a case of the sniffles...

Speakin' of which...

...sniff...

B~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Charmion
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 09:56 PM

Glad to hear you're home and doing better, Susan.

Heal, girl, heal!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 10:18 PM

Rest, eh? Wal, that mini-Sick Bay I set up? Napping heaven. And room for the dog's bed right beside my chair.

Faulkner seems to be 5 years younger all of a sudden, having his whole pack, whole, again. Oh I had come and gone a number of times to pick up or drop things off, but it took an overnight to convince him that I am really HERE. That, and watching me unpack, helped him a lot.

As long as I gotta be housebound, BTW, I will be making a montage of some of the details.

The support here has been so important. Thanks, friends. From here it is a whole new planet, so please stay close as I encounter new weirdities. Like.... the day I discovered, for the first time in... more than 20 years... I have a LAP! What IS that?!?!?!? Oh-- it HOLDS things! A LAPtop!?!?!?!? Who knew?!?!?!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 07:43 PM

There's nothing like a happy dog who wants to hang out in your company to really feel like you're home.

SRS

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 07:51 PM

Laps and dogs are like toast and jam...

B~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 08:27 PM

I posted something witty about not having much of a lap - maybe the Mudcat Witty Post Detector didn't find it witty!!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 08:32 PM

While I OTOH have gained a lap but doggeh no-can-sit-there. Wounds healing, with ouchies. No paws allowed! :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 09:49 AM

OK. I just gotta get this one off my chest.

===

I did not undergo this surgery for weight loss, though weight loss was a byproduct-- heck they took 37 pounds off my front.

But I do think of this time with the complications as "time served," where I am earning that weight loss with as much hard work as a bypass might have involved.

And I do-- of course-- like the more svelte shape that is emerging with the loss from the thyroid meds working.

So after all this I can wear the 3x's I had given my husband when I could no longer wear them, and putting THOSE on is funfunfun-- because I know that I will be able to shop in stores once I am off HHS, not catalog.

I do not mind my 6x tropical shirts being so baggy-- I can wear sweatshirts under them and it's COLD now. I do not mind my 4x jeans trying to fall off when I walk.

But I did find it REALLY IRONIC that in the hospital and nursing home, their gown sizes went as far as 3x with sleeves too tight for comfort-- then the next size was TEN X!!! So I have been swimming in gowns big enough to make a sail to make Fiji.


The various Laundry Dept. workers who brought me several of these voluminous piles of fabric, daily, assured me that the very-thin, over-worn, ties-gone gowns should be pitched. I culled my way thru a lot of bum gowns in the 6 weeks I spent at the Home.

But I couldn't stand the waste-- and they have no sewing department. So I cut the ties off the worst of them to repair the best, with my little camping sewing kit, and sent them back to Laundry to be part of regular stock.....

And I saved a few of the thin, now-tieless ones to use at home as robes.

And they are very damn handy to wear for dressing changes! :~)

===

I feel better. I am also taking daily pix of the slimming Susan as I work my way thru a closet full of items on their way to the seamstress.

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 10:35 AM

untreated or improperly treated thyroid is a major problem.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 02:55 PM

SiS, yeah! The surgery was reconstructive to correct damage done thru a lifetime of untreated hypothyroidism....(Three hundred fifty three POUNDS of untreated thyroid disease....). It was life-saving in other ways, but THAT was my motivation to agree to DO it.

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: KT
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 03:45 PM

So glad to know you're home, Susan! Keep on that healing, strengthening track! Sending good thoughts your way... KT

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 06:43 PM

Keep on that healing, strengthening track!

While I was on that last nursing home stay, laid up, some powerful people began to come to our aid on the insurance end. One of the results has been help from "Ms. Ashley"-- a breathtakingly brilliant woman in the health advocacy organization with whom our denomination contracts to help untangle pesky insurance issues.

As I get stronger, news about efforts to get back to normal activities (i.e. starting to live out some of the benefits of this surgery) are in other, topic-appropriate threads.

But in this one, I will now focus on updates about a big insurance appeal now underway.

In the days after the surgery, my handy cellphone recorded graphic examples of what went wrong and what went well. I just emailed three of the most powerful photos to Ashley-- to support the medical records forthcoming from the hospital that took care of me after the surgeon messed me up.

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 11:55 PM

little people + Ms Ashley take on Big Health.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Dec 12 - 05:41 PM

I do not know yet when the appeal will be filed; first I have to gather a few boxes of medical records and the referring doc will order those for us next week. Ashley will go thru all this and then actually create the appeal on our behalf-- thus providing us a kollidge lesson in insurance industry priorities!

I fully expect the insurance company to turn around and sue the surgeon to recover expenses they have paid out on my behalf. Some people have opined that I should consider suing him, but as long as I continue to gain strength and avoid further complications, we will not even need to go there. I just want to be WELL and get on with my life. I am quite sure that he will reap what he has sowed, all by himself.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Dec 12 - 10:10 AM

My friend who was struck by a motorist in a parking lot last January has recovered but it took a long time - 2 weeks in the ICU, 3 1/2 months in various rehab facilities, stepping down in complexity as needed and as insurance dictated. In order to pay her hospital bills she had to sue - the driver of the car, and she had to sue insurance companies, including the auto folks since she was hit in the parking lot (she had two auto insurance policies in effect - one was supposed to have been closed a few months before the accident but family discovered the company was still pulling a policy payment from her checking account every month, so that company was on the hook though they tried to back out of the policy when they realized what was happening). We're coming up on a year on January 12, and some of this is still unfolding. She has had an attorney taking care of this stuff. Hang in there, don't let those companies off the hook.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Dec 12 - 12:07 PM

SRS, wow!

She has had an attorney taking care of this stuff. Hang in there, don't let those companies off the hook.

This is exactly what Ashley does, under the umbrella of our very supportive diocesan health insurance plan. Our denom funds insurance thru a compassionate group of companies which are headed and often staffed by clergy. In managed care, PT (for example) is, industry-wide, "evidence based." Our insurance is purchased thru a "compassion-based" system, which includes checks and balances that come into play when one is SO "under water" on health expenses that were fairly incurred that one needs access to additional resources. In our case one of these resources is Ashley.

ANY member of our insurance group has access to the Health Advocate network of experienced expediters. We were additionally blessed to be assigned to a senior member of the expediting group who can do all this-- without violating a Christian preference not to bring suit the way so much of our culture is prone to do.

Going to court is a last, last, LAST recourse, for us-- and only after all other means have had time to play out in honest mediation.

It is a very different way to do business. For example, the PT person at the Home, when she heard about the notion of "compassion-based" services, had a real hard time even seeing that there is another way out there, which is working well for many people. Her "evidence-based" assessments of my progress, for example, will help me make a case to a donor organization that compassionately assists when medical expenses go beyond the red zone-- while the PT's Medicare-mindset led her to think that "no" (i.e. insurance will not cover more PT) really meant "never" (i.e. no other funds are even out there). That org may be able to help when I get past HHS PT and onto outpatient PT-- our insurance covers some of the cost, but significant co-pays would preclude my doing outpatient PT at all without some help.

Again, it is a very different way to do business. We do our part by being wise stewards of our income, and that includes significant participation in annual parochial pledge and capital programs... as well as personal volunteer service and financial assistance to people in the community; it all usually comes out OK, over time.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Dec 12 - 08:18 PM

It's very different to what I understand about US health system. Do other churches & compassionate organisations offer similar health systems?

Here in the land of Oz we have universal health care - Medicare is government run & offers hospital & medical care, tho many folks also have private health cover to (help) cover the gap between Medicare rebate & fees charged, & to pay for/contribute to non-Medicare services. Medicare Australia explained on Wikipedia

Patients can still have a large out-of-pocket expenses.

sandra

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Dec 12 - 09:42 PM

It's very different to what I understand about US health system. Do other churches & compassionate organisations offer similar health systems?

Well, let's see. I can really only speak to my own experience, but I suspect the answer as far as other denominations would be yes.

Here is an example from our housefire in 2000. The Church Insurance Group would gladly have hired a lawyoo to sue the landlord, till I explained that he had become a friend, treated us well, and we had employed one another's young men for their first jobs outside their own families-- that we did not want to sue and we fir sure did not want our happy, leaseless (handshake) agreement threatened with hard feelings. (And we have been here now since '94.)

So the CIG paid our claim without suing him. The landlord's insurance did turn around and sue us and our insurance, because that is what secular, profit-driven entities do. But the whole time they were doing this, our landlord had no idea it was being done in their name. We just never brought it up, even as weekly mail came and went all about the gory details. But when the landlord's family found out (around final settlement time), were they mad. "Those 'tenants' are our dear friends! Stop this suit at once! You cannot do this in our name!"

Hardi had buried their patriarch, Walter.... because they asked him to, and because Walter had just loved sitting in our driveway watching our ducks. (There is a MudThread about that one.)

~Susan

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 31 Dec 12 - 09:07 AM

Dear sweet sister, I have been so little on the Mudcat that somehow I missed the whole thing. What a tower of strength you are, yet again! I have limited internet access these days, but know that you are in my heart and I am sending light and love and healing mojo your way!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Jan 13 - 09:53 AM

I slept in my OWN BED last night (a few hours) for the first time since Sept. 12, TBTG! Happy New Year: "Begin as you mean to go on."

As soon as HHS PT sez I can do stairs on my own-- that ole lift recliner will no longer be the main sleepatorium but just the damn napatorium! :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 01 Jan 13 - 01:33 PM

Hooray for you! Blessed sleep, in your OWN bed- there is nothing like it!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 10:04 AM

Blessed sleep, in your OWN bed- there is nothing like it!

Well.... I did not actually sleep deeply, and I felt it the next day: insufficient energy.

I have not been totally accurate in posting about the scar tissue that is going to be problematic for several more months. There are bands of it (along lines of incisions), and big lumps of it (where abscesses/gappy pockets were).

It variously feels like overly-tight seatbelts I cannot take off, barbed wired lacing, a hot iron bar running me through, a cinderblock between belly and bed or hip and bed.....

Then there are the miscellaneous sharp pains from time to time in places where they have not been, that may be from benign causes (increased activity for example) or from new complications brewing.... as the day goes on these daily "adventures" become quite wearing and I get pretty.... well, "crabby" is an understatement... sometimes walking helps.... sometimes I just do not have the energy left for that...

This is a daily, ongoing part of healing from this surgery and from the way the damn doctor messed me up.


It IS good for my prayer life though. :~) And hopefully y'all have been and will keep praying for this to soften, strengthen, and heal. And/or that I will learn "saintly" cheeerfulness-- I am working on that too.

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 10:18 AM

Something about sleeping in one's own bed that is heeling...

Onward and upward, WYSuz...

Luv ya'...

B~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Jan 13 - 05:59 PM

definitely onwards & upwards in Susan's case.

love & gentle hugs

sandra

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Jan 13 - 06:45 AM

One recent morning while enjoying my sunny Sick Bay I happened to notice a flash of red in the bushes along the creek, looking out the east window which, most winters, has been kept covered. We need to keep the heat loss as low as possible. (Being on house arrest for HHS, this year we splurge on keeping the indoors as bright as possible.)

Of course it was a cardinal, lurking among reddish-brown herbiage still clinging to the bushes. And a lovely, sunny meditation it was, enjoying his presence. Oh LOOK, there are TWO.... two bright red males.... and a THIRD!?!?!?! I got up and put out some cereal for them, scattered over the ramp's railing that faces the bushes. (I didn't have anything else they might like.)

And then, as they say in poker, I went "all in": I hied myself hence to Amazon. Invested about $40 bucks in bird feeders I can mount on the ramp's posts, and a birdbath too.

Cuz when it comes to birdehs, one is never enough.

In early spring we are always buzzed by hummingbirds that seldom stay the summer. By golly I will be ready for them this year, and THIS year when all that snow melts, I'll be able to get down onto that porch and set a spell among the birdehs! Bird feeders and colorful hanging pots and..... zero grav recliners... camp chairs.... pickin'.....

The mind must know I am going to survive this surgery and complications. It has gone off without me, planning for a few more years in this ole house. Everything portable to go to our retirement digs a few more years down the road.... yep..... uh huh, I see it now...

~Susan

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Jan 13 - 04:25 PM

New 48' ramp:

CLICK!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 05:07 PM

Medical records have begun to arrive for the appeal. They include some insulting ass-covering efforts by the surgeon, which I cheerfully found and annotated in my second look thru them..... wearing a cute pink turtleneck I can now wear. As revenge.

Tonight a phone conference with number one son. Monday we mail what we have to Ms. Ashley, and we are sure she will agree that we also need the nursing notes and list of meds given.... I am gonna need a lot more retail therapy!

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 06:22 PM

Knock'em ded, sweet sister (I saw the photos of that pink turtleneck on FB- looking good, dear one)!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Jan 13 - 11:32 AM

I have finally been able to assemble a draft of the timeline of key events the appeal needs to reference. The records.... well let's just say that after a few hours poring thru them ya get to wish yuh'd h'aint been born. TBTG for prayer!

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Jan 13 - 01:28 PM

The hospital records we needed for the appeal have arrived. We send them off to Ashley Monday (keeping a copy at home as well).

I anticipate one last home health nursing visit next week to discharge me from home health.... we are down to a dressing I can DO. I took myself off the PT schedule yesterday.

Now comes the hard part-- life with no external structure on TIME. I already blew it, too-- laundry all over the place, sore from not doing my stretches, and forgot all about eating breakfast this AM till 11:45! Back to the cellphone alarms for key structure! I am heading out for a ramp walk!

~S~

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Feb 13 - 05:15 PM

Today the appeal specialist (Miss Claudia) at Health Advocate introduced herself. She has begun the review of my medical records.

I spent way too long yesterday going over the bulk of the records with a fine-tooth comb to spot items that show the medical necessity of my having been in the hospital, which is what the appeal is about. I got through about 80 of the 100+ pages; Ashley had sent them to me in PDF form so I could look in one screen and make notes in a WordPad file. When I can stomach those last pages I will group the types of info into a chart to discussion with Claudia.

We also need to get a letter from the referring doc outlining what he had told me about the expected aftercare needs; I am mulling how to draft that request since he will probably write the letter from whatever I draft for him from my recollections of that conversation before the surgery.

Uck uck, uck!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Feb 13 - 03:12 PM

First analysis by appeals specialist Miss Claudia is right along the same lines I had been thinking, and well-organized. Requesting more records and re-iterating requests not yet honored.

~S~