THe New BAHA and a RANT!!!!!!

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Hello all! It has been a little bit since i have posted anything but

i have been responding! Anyway, I wanted to update you all on my

son, Kristian's BAHA (Bone Anchored Hearing Aid)... he had the

surgery and he is doing well. he had it in the 10th of this month

and had absolutely NO PAIN whatsoever! that was amazing! He had 2

holes drilled into his skull-because, one was not in a place where

his skull bone could support the maechanism. There as another

drilled, and that worked perfectly! he is doing fine and again, was

out for a week and is going back to school on Tuesday!

Now as for my venting and i must at this moment- we went to our

follow-up appointment a week later and everything was fine and the

doctor removed the dressing and the packing around his area. Anyway,

we left the doctor and moved on to the audiologist to find out about

the receiver that he is going to need in order to hear. well, get

this, the insurance company paid and APPROVED the surgery but wont

approve the reciever!!! How insane is that? I am then told that i

need to either come up with the $3000 for the receiver at once (on

our fitting appointment in May) or check with the insurance company!

so i leave the office flustered thinking where in the heck am I

going to come up with 3 grand by May? i callt he insurance company

and get the rudest woman on the planet and she says that i need to

have the doctor write a letter saying that the device is medically

necessary and then they will look over it and decide whether or not

to pay for it. How insane! so in my ranting i say why the hell do we

pay for health insurance when you dont want to take care of what

needs to be taken care of? why do you take fees out of my check

every other week for what??? i was irate...just irate! well i have

calmed down since Friday but i am still a little miffed...if anyone

has any suggestions PLEASeLET ME KNOW!!!

Other than that, all is well with my sweet baby and his surgery!!!