Much of the day was spent down at Medical City Dallas Hospital. A routine visit to the cancer doctor for bloodwork and doctor visit escalated quickly once they took a look at her left leg. She definitely has a raging infection in the leg which has caused it to double in size and do other things. They cultured the wound site and those results should be back on Monday.
She also had to do an ultrasound on her left leg to rule out a blood clot. That meant we had to go over to the main hospital where it took them 45 minutes to verify the insurance. Once they did that, they demanded an immediate payment of far more than we had thanks to the misinformation they had supposedly verified. Clearly, even though we have been dealing with this same insurance for months and years now, we know nothing and can't be trusted to provide accurate information. They ran one bank debit charge through today and have backdated another major bank debit charge to the end of the month. That is going to be ugly.
Finally, they decided they could do the ultrasound. Thankfully, there was no blood clot.
Then it was way back over to Texas Oncology where they had to await results from the scan before they could finally send us home. We had been told already at the time of the scan, but they had to wait till the information arrived over at their office. They finally got that and turned us loose.
She has to be back Wednesday morning so they can asses the leg. It is in bad shape and the fact that she is a diabetic makes all of this much worse to deal with as things don't heal. The leg is to remain elevated as much as possible and she is to stay off it and take her antibiotic.
So, it has been a very long day. She is out cold right now which is most likely the best thing for her.
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So sorry, Kevin.
Sorry you two are having to go through all this.
Thank you both. The fear is that it could be MSRA or several other rapid and devastating infections, but that is thought to be unlikely.
All I could do was laugh this morning when I got up to news predicted by some of a winter weather event here Wednesday morning. Dodged it yesterday--though we did see flurries a couple of times on our way down to the hospital--and now this.
Far more than sometimes it's all about the money than the health and needs of the patient. Prayers continue for both your wife and you, Kevin.
Prayers for the both of you. It is tough having cancer and diabetes. I had a routine full skeletal x-ray a couple of months ago and they found a "mass". So I had to have an abdominal CT scan. I get sick from the barium milkshake so that was a real ordeal. Turned out that nothing showed up on the CT Scan.
Hope that you can get a good rest and that her leg will start healing.
Thank you, Terry. The charge is processed not with the hospital name, but instead the name HCA. Explains it all right there.
Very glad it turned out to be nothing, Carol, and all is okay. Thank you as well.
Adding both of you to my prayer list. What a revoltin' development (as Riley would say). AAAAARGHH
Yes, it is. Thank you, Shalanna
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