So we get to Children's South at 1 P.M. (right on time) and when we walked in I noticed that his doctors name wasn't on the board. So I went up to the desk and they go oh she's at the main hospitals on Monday's. I looked at that woman and I think she could see the steam start to rise out of my ears. I said look, I got three phone calls to confirm this appointment. One was automated and said Children's South, the second was a live idiot who said Children's South and the third idiot didn't even say where, just said who was calling. So if you are going to freaking tell me three separate people told me the wrong place and now we can't get in, you better rethink that. I swear I have been dealing with nothing by morons in the past few weeks. Everyday I am stressed.
So she calls the hospital and asks if we can still get in and yes we can, but we need to get over there ASAP. So she told us how to get there. We get there and realize the stupid idiot didn't tell us where her office was in the hospital! We didn't even know his doctor had an office there. So then we end up in a wild goose chase all over the stupid place. Finally getting to where we need to go and running into two "sistas" with attitude. I thought to myself this can be a hill I die on. I was pissed. And then they so kindly asked me to fill out a comment survey. HEHE.
So we finally get back there. Cade is 74.6 cmm tall and weighs 21.7 lbs. WoHoo! That is great. I told her how some days it is just crazy and he pucks like he was never on meds and other days he is great. She says it will take awhile for him to outgrow it. So we just have to work with him. She said to stop feeding him orange/yellow foods altogether. Which I wasn't doing. I was giving him one a week to see if he could tolerate it. She said to stop and try again in a month. So when we get home I am going to have to go to my favorite store to take back a bunch. I asked about milk and she said that she will wait until Jan. Then we are to come up and he will have a milk allergy test to see if he still has an allergy to it. So I guess he is allergic to milk because that is what she is basically saying. I asked about how we are going to thickin it and she said we will still add rice to it. Not much else there though. Cade was really good and she is a really nice doctor. Listens to what we have to say and is really great with him.
After that we finally go to our hotel. We like to go to Hampton Inn Colonnade. They offer free-wifi in rooms, free breakfast and snacks in the afternoons. No where else does. You have to pay for wifi or no breakfast. The people here are really nice and accommodating and it is pretty central to all the places we like to and have to go.
After we were back in the room for awhile we went to a new shopping area. Its called the Galleria. It is the biggest indoor shopping center in Birmingham. It was nice. We really were shopping for anything, but they have all the stores we would otherwise go to. So we just walked around for a while, feed Cade and then we went to California Pizza Kitchen for dinner.
Of course we are back in the hotel now. What makes us mad is that we had to come up today for Cade and John has two appointments tomorrow and Tricare wouldn't cover an overnight stay. We are still working on trying to get reimbursed for the other trips, but aren't holding our breaths. It was a DONSA day for John today (day of no scheduled activity) so he didn't have to take off work and tomorrow is veterans day. So that sort of sucks because people are all getting together. John has two pre-op appointments and the last one is at 330. So we wont get home until 7 or 8. So that totally sucks for us.
Alright, I am off. I am so tired and I can see that John is too even though he wont admit it.
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