Day 300 and Counting

300 Days since Diagnosis!!

Wow. It's hard to believe it's been 300 days.

300 days since unwanted admission into leukemia university.

300 days since learning a whole new lingo - ALL, AML, CNS positive, spinal tap (not the movie), T-cell, B-cell, ANC...the list goes on and on.

300 days of worry and stress.

Best of all...300 days of generosity, hope, and answered prayers.

Blast from the Past

The phone rang on Friday and it was our dear friend Alex, who flew all the way over the Atlantic Ocean just to see us. (Apparently he is very eager to have his picture on the blog!) Alex came bearing a gift for Carson...a Caterpillar skid steer. Of course, it was a huge hit. Although we have a large collection of Cat equipment, the skid steer was a first.

Carson let's Alex touch the big skid steer only for a brief moment...just long enough to snap a photo.

I was congratulating Alex for doing such a great job on his homework and picking out a skid steer. But then he said, "What's a skid steer?" Never mind.

Even if he didn't know what a skid steer was, Alex must have passed the test because later in the evening Carson asked him to read a book.

Carson uses a library book to educate Alex on construction equipment.

Medical Milestone

The one milestone we did NOT want to cross...our first medical bill sent to collection! Not exactly an event to do the happy dance about.

We're not really worried about it. We have no idea what the bill was for...and my guess is the organization that sent it doesn't either. We have received GREAT medical care. The doctors and staff are totally AWESOME.

Their billing departments, however, could use a little improvement. Okay, make that a LOT of improvement.

As graduates of leukemia university we see our fair share of medical bills. We (okay, mainly Jennifer), have gotten pretty adept to deciphering what they the bills even mean. We even count this as having learned another language...not something you can get from Rosetta Stone. I'd say we're not fluent, but we can carry a simple conversation.

And here's the deal, for some organizations/groups we NEVER receive a correct bill on the first try. There are ALWAYS mistakes. Funny thing is, the mistakes are never in our favor. Why is that?

Life goes on...

All in all this is pretty small potatoes. We'll straighten things out. But, if given the choice of trying to correct medical bills or spend time with the kids, we'd pick the latter.

Paul.