The folks at PCMC are so good at what they do. The see so many kids with problems that they know things that most doctors don't. For example, they suggested a couple of options for controlling Marky's drooling. No one has mentioned that before. My vote is the surgery to remove the salivary glands--not all of them, just the 4 out-of-control ones. Apparently it works about 80% of the time.
And his ear needs the canal wall down done as well. Plus the one doctor recommended botox in his knee and knee immobilizers to stretch his leg muscles. So we can do them all at once.
Oh, and we are supposed to see the orthopedics people about his spine/scoliosis. I figured it'd be a few months before we could get in, but they said Feb 1st. Wow! That was fast.
We stopped in to see if baby Ella was there. She was, but she didn't have any parents there. I left a note for Sandy and a bear w/a balloon. At least we knew she was still alive.
But Marky and I left at 8 am and got home at 7pm. Ugh!
You see Dave called me during the day, but my phone didn't work inside PCMC. So once I left I called him. He'd been in Ogden all day. His car died. Or nearly died. It had 312,000 miles on it. $3500 to fix. I picked him up, and as we were driving down the freeway he said it'd take a week or more to fix. I asked him why he didn't ask for a loaner--Dan (Cutrubus) would probably give him one. So we turned around and went back. We knew asking meant they would try to sell us a car, but I wasn't sure that wasn't better than pouring $3500 into that old of a car. Before going in, we prayed that we would know what to do. We considered our options to be: 1) fix the old car or 2) buy a new car -- Dave wanted to get one of their "program" (one year old dealer driven/rental) cadillacs about $30,000. He didn't want to "move sideways", he wanted to upgrade.
We didn't feel good about either option, so we went in to at least see what they had to say. We explained that we'd planned on letting Natalie drive that car next year and buying a new one for Dave next Christmas. Skyler (and Dan) suggested a third option: buy a "teenager" car for $3500 that'd be sure to run for at least a year, then Dave could upgrade. They had a hundai Elantra with 80,000 miles for about $3500. Actually they had 3 or 4 cars that fit our needs, but when they brought the first one around (we were treated like royalty--we didn't even have to walk the lot, they brought the cars to us) Dave said "I'll take it." So we signed a 1 month promissory note and Dave drove the new-to-us car home.
Days like this are stressful. And sometimes I'm better at dealing with it than other times. I slipped up some this week. I need to work harder.
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