Crazy last day

Well, it's almost 10:00pm Wed. night and it's been a very busy last day at home preparing for our big trip to California tomorrow.  It started as a great day, turned into a nightmare afternoon and then ended on a sweet note.
The first part of this week Nolan has been having headaches and stomachaches.  The nurse called me from school Mon. and I went and picked Nolan up. Tues. morning he stayed home but after seeing that he seemed fine I went ahead and took him into school.  After having a nice talk with his Kindergarten teacher Tues. night, both of us debating whether Nolan has a little bug or if it's just nerves with everything going on at home, we came to a nice end that hopefully it would soon pass, either way, and that she would do whatever she could to help Nolan through this if it was related to mom and sister leaving for California and that she would be praying for us.  I told her how nice it was to have a teacher that cared about Nolan so much and didn't just shove him under the rug with all this.  Anyway, I tell you this story to lead to this:  Nolan said he had a stomachache this morning but after convincing him to go ahead and try it for the morning and that I would come have lunch with him, he went on to school.  At lunch, Mrs. Sims told me how wonderful the morning had been and Nolan was acting like his old self again...no tummy complaints! Nolan and I then enjoyed a nice Chick-fil-a lunch and laughed and cut up together.  He truly seemed all better!

I then left school to meet Reagan and Aunt Kay at the nail salon for Reagan and I to get our toes done for the big trip.  Reagan was not sure what to think about the whole experience but sat in the chair like a big girl and let the lady paint her toenails her favorite color- yellow with pink dots.

After Reagan's toes dried, Aunt Kay went ahead and took her on home for a nap while I finished up.  Unfortunately, this is where my afternoon turned bad.  While finishing my pedicure, I got a call from the surgeon's office saying Tricare was denying authorization for Reagan's cath on Monday and wanted me to call the insurance company to see what I could find out.  So while tying to grocery shop for the boys, I was on the phone with insurance, dr.'s offices, etc trying to get everything cleared up.  I ended up going to Reagan's pediatrician's office to get it straightened out.  They had already submitted the referral twice to Tricare and Tricare was telling them they had never approved Reagan to go to California .  I then had to contact Reagan's case manager for Tricare and luckily she was able to straighten things out.  Apparently, enough time has gone by with Reagan not being seen by the drs. in California that her file had been placed in inactive status.  How ironic is that, seeing that although we're not in California, we're always 'actively' charging Tricare for lots of things on Reagan's behalf like meds, home medical equipments, therapy, dr. visits, etc.  Anyway, to make a long story short, our case manager reopened her file as active and was going to get her referral approved by end of business day today.  I'm laying my head down tonight praying it all works itself out because the surgeons' office already informed me that if we get there Friday for Reagan's pre-op appt and the referral is not approved, I will need to sign a financial waiver of responsibility.......HA.....NOT this mama!!!!  I've seen the bills this girl can rack up and I'm not about to sign responsibility for any of that just because of an insurance company's mess up.  Oh, and by the way, we have government insurance, so I'm sure we'll all be dealing with this kind of mess when Obamacare kicks into action.....ha!!  Not to get started on that, but let me end on the sweet note.....

Our precious friends, Warren and Lori Kostencki and their boys, Caleb and Cody, stopped by our house this evening and had a nice prayer with us for our trip, Reagan's drs, decisions, procedures, surgeries and overall recovery.  That truly meant alot and we love you guys!!

Last but not least, before Nolan went to bed, I asked if we could go ahead and pull his first tooth.  He's had a wiggly snaggle tooth for some time now and since I'm leaving tomorrow, I did not want to miss this memorable event.  He reluctantly agreed and thankfully I had it out before he even knew what happened.  Yea, what a note to end this crazy day on.

Well, it's a dark-thirty call in the morning as Reagan and I have to leave Temple around 6:30 am to head to Hillsboro, pick up my mom, and then off to Dallas to the airport.  Please pray for an UNeventful day of travel and we will update later.  Night-night everyone and thanks for your support!