I went to my nurse's appointment today. I found out very quickly that in order to attend my first doctor's appointment this coming Monday that I must have $780 as a payment on the full amount, which comes to about $3,000. That only covers my doctor's appointments and the hospital, that doesn't include, blood work, any kind of labs, ultrasounds, etc. So of course, the first thing I did when I got home was call the DFC. (department of family and children) I was told she was with a client and would call me back. I went out to get the mail and found that I had mail from the DFC. It said that I had a new caseworker, so I called her to see what the deal was, hoping she wouldn't be busy as well. She asked for my social security number and couldn't find it in the computer, she then asked for my last name, she said the only thing that was in the computer at all about me was my name and that I had for whatever reason been denied of my benefits. She transfered me back to my original case worker, who of course was still busy because I had just spoken with her a few minutes before. Again, she said she would call me back and had even repeated my phone number, she never called. I will be calling her every day if that's what it takes. The lady at the OB told me that there was a family practice that takes medicaid pending insurance and I could go to them but I wasn't able to even find them in the phone book so now I have to call my OB back and ask them where this place actually is. This is such a pain in the ass. I'll probably end up going to WIC to see what they can do to help me since the DFC is so incompetent that they can't even enter my name and information properly.
My grandma was the person who took me to my appointment today just in case they needed to draw blood. We recently got a new dog, and I had originally been trying to get her to adopt it but for whatever reason, she decided that she didn't want the dog. Well, we did and we adopted her. We hadn't told my grandma though because we all knew the lecture we would get so we were going to put it off as long as possible. I was going to put the dogs outside before she got here but she got here while I was brushing my teeth (the VERY firstthing I do in the morning) so I hadn't had time to put them out and she saw the dog. I then got lectured abouthow unsanitary it is to have this many dogs in a house, especially with a baby on the way. I couldn't make her listen to the fact that it's not MY dog, I wasn't the one who adopted her, she's my mom's dog. I was immediately put into a bad mood this morning. I know my grandma is just trying to help most of the time but more often than not, she just ends up upsetting someone. She does more talking than LISTENING. Once we got home, she kept trying to get me to do all this housework even though I was on and off the phone with caseworkers then entire time she was here. And she kept telling me how good it was for me to get up and out of the house. Apparently, she thinks I still sleep in till 4pm. I swear, she thinks I never leave the house, I must order all my clothes offline.
I think this is kind of weird, I had my blood pressure taken today and it was 80 over 53. Isn't that a little low?? She didn't seem concerned about it but you'd think it would be a little higher since I'm pregnant and pushing more blood through my body to get to the baby. I'll have to look it up tomorrow sometime. I weighed 106 today, which, according to doctor's scales would mean I'd gained 6lbs. According to my scale at home, I've gained 11lbs. I would prefer the 11 since I was already probably considered underweight before I got pregnant and have been told I should put on a little extra weight because of it. I guess have a low body weight when you become pregnant can cause a low birth weight when the baby is born. Well, I'm going to go to bed now, I hope. I had so much trouble falling asleep last night. I only ended up getting a few hours of sleep and waking up a full hour before my alarm even went off.
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