Can You Believe it is September
It is hard to believe we are already entering fall, 3 months until Christmas just seems unreal! Everything here is caotic as usual. 
I am still super busy with work and trying really hard to help the kids find a house to buy. Ashley, Robert & Sydney are staying here with us, it is so great to have them here and to be able to see Sydney each morning with her bright smiling little face. It most certainly starts my day off great. I can feel horrible and then seeing her makes me smile. I also Love having Ashley back home, they are looking for a house to purchase but even with me being a Realtor it is hard to find one in there price range that is available. There are so many foreclosures out there, the homes that are actually seller occupied and move in ready for sale go really quickly. I watch the market like a hawk. There stuff is on a boat from Japan and will be here soon, we are trying to get them into a place so when it arrives it can go directly to there new home. We all love being together but they need to be able to get there own place and settle in.
We had a huge welcome home party here at the house for them over the Labor Day Holiday. We had 65 people show up so it was a busy, busy weekend. We had a huge BBQ so it took Friday night, Saturday & Saturday evening to prepare for everyone on Sunday. I was one wiped out Mom by Sunday night! I also have been fighting the flu, I am doing better but it settled in my chest and I am still fighting a cough and all that.
I am weighing about the same no real change there or any great news on all of the stuff that is going on with that. I am getting ready to make an appointment with Dr. Lamont to see about getting some blood work done and checking on the Bacteria issue in my stomach. The insurance coverage we have will be running out the end of October! I can't believe 6 months of continuation have already went by. I did manage to get coverage that started this month from a company called Cinergy. Has anyone heard of them or know much about them? I heard about them from my Mom and then have seen there advertisments on TV. I called and they are covering us and they are not ruling out any pre-existing conditions. I have looked at the policy and it is not as good of coverage as I have now but it is ALOT cheaper and will allow for me to get a second policy if I can find another company to be secondary. They are charging us $480.00 a month for our family VS the $1380.00 a month now which is so ridiculous and hard to manage financially. The big thing is they only pay up to $1000.00 a day if i am in the hospital and only cover me for 30 days of admissions per year. I hope I do not end up in the hospital over 30 days a year but with my track record it is very possible. I also know that $1000.00 a day won't cut it. My last stay was 13 days and it was $38,000.00. All of this really stresses me out but the good thing is at least I have some coverage to start with once this other drops off. I also have perscription coverage with this new plan and that alone will be a huge savings if I had no insurance my perscriptions run about $5000.00 per month. The new insurance does not cover all the meds I take but they cover about 75% of them. I am hoping I can talk to the Doctor and we can switch some stuff around so that I am able to have them all covered.
I am also shopping for another policy to pick up the balance. It was no problem getting Cinergy to cover us so I am not sure if it will be an issue with a secondary company. I can always hope. I also checked out the Coverage on the hospitals I go to and the Doctors. Baylor Hospital is on there list and a couple of my Doctors are also. My Pain management Doctor is not on the list so it will be limited coverage on that. I am still checking on a lot of it.
Carol I am sorry to hear Paige is not doing any better. Have that not figured anything out? Is she still in the Hospital as much or has she been able to stay out for awhile? I wish I had answers fo you. I keep her in my prayers all the time. I know the last few days I have been up at night and in the bathroom around the clock, it is exhausting sometimes.
Diane, I am sorry finances are rough. I know the west coast has been hit really hard. When I went to Medford for the family reunion I could not believe how depressed the area was. Here in Arlington you have no idea things are bad, I see it in the Real Estate market with all the foreclosures and such but as far as people shopping, dining out, recreational stuff you have no idea. When we were in Medford the stores were dead the restaurants were empty and it was flat depressing. We went to the mall one day to buy a Birthday gift and it blew my mind NOBODY was there. I really saw how bad things are.
I am going to try really hard to post some new pictures. I have to get to work but I will see what I can do so everyone can see how much little Sydney is growing! I will be thinking about everyone, you are in my thoughts and prayers Take care and as always I LOVE hearing from all of you. I will post again very soon!!
Love Lorie
I am still super busy with work and trying really hard to help the kids find a house to buy. Ashley, Robert & Sydney are staying here with us, it is so great to have them here and to be able to see Sydney each morning with her bright smiling little face. It most certainly starts my day off great. I can feel horrible and then seeing her makes me smile. I also Love having Ashley back home, they are looking for a house to purchase but even with me being a Realtor it is hard to find one in there price range that is available. There are so many foreclosures out there, the homes that are actually seller occupied and move in ready for sale go really quickly. I watch the market like a hawk. There stuff is on a boat from Japan and will be here soon, we are trying to get them into a place so when it arrives it can go directly to there new home. We all love being together but they need to be able to get there own place and settle in. We had a huge welcome home party here at the house for them over the Labor Day Holiday. We had 65 people show up so it was a busy, busy weekend. We had a huge BBQ so it took Friday night, Saturday & Saturday evening to prepare for everyone on Sunday. I was one wiped out Mom by Sunday night! I also have been fighting the flu, I am doing better but it settled in my chest and I am still fighting a cough and all that.
I am weighing about the same no real change there or any great news on all of the stuff that is going on with that. I am getting ready to make an appointment with Dr. Lamont to see about getting some blood work done and checking on the Bacteria issue in my stomach. The insurance coverage we have will be running out the end of October! I can't believe 6 months of continuation have already went by. I did manage to get coverage that started this month from a company called Cinergy. Has anyone heard of them or know much about them? I heard about them from my Mom and then have seen there advertisments on TV. I called and they are covering us and they are not ruling out any pre-existing conditions. I have looked at the policy and it is not as good of coverage as I have now but it is ALOT cheaper and will allow for me to get a second policy if I can find another company to be secondary. They are charging us $480.00 a month for our family VS the $1380.00 a month now which is so ridiculous and hard to manage financially. The big thing is they only pay up to $1000.00 a day if i am in the hospital and only cover me for 30 days of admissions per year. I hope I do not end up in the hospital over 30 days a year but with my track record it is very possible. I also know that $1000.00 a day won't cut it. My last stay was 13 days and it was $38,000.00. All of this really stresses me out but the good thing is at least I have some coverage to start with once this other drops off. I also have perscription coverage with this new plan and that alone will be a huge savings if I had no insurance my perscriptions run about $5000.00 per month. The new insurance does not cover all the meds I take but they cover about 75% of them. I am hoping I can talk to the Doctor and we can switch some stuff around so that I am able to have them all covered.
I am also shopping for another policy to pick up the balance. It was no problem getting Cinergy to cover us so I am not sure if it will be an issue with a secondary company. I can always hope. I also checked out the Coverage on the hospitals I go to and the Doctors. Baylor Hospital is on there list and a couple of my Doctors are also. My Pain management Doctor is not on the list so it will be limited coverage on that. I am still checking on a lot of it.
Carol I am sorry to hear Paige is not doing any better. Have that not figured anything out? Is she still in the Hospital as much or has she been able to stay out for awhile? I wish I had answers fo you. I keep her in my prayers all the time. I know the last few days I have been up at night and in the bathroom around the clock, it is exhausting sometimes.
Diane, I am sorry finances are rough. I know the west coast has been hit really hard. When I went to Medford for the family reunion I could not believe how depressed the area was. Here in Arlington you have no idea things are bad, I see it in the Real Estate market with all the foreclosures and such but as far as people shopping, dining out, recreational stuff you have no idea. When we were in Medford the stores were dead the restaurants were empty and it was flat depressing. We went to the mall one day to buy a Birthday gift and it blew my mind NOBODY was there. I really saw how bad things are.
I am going to try really hard to post some new pictures. I have to get to work but I will see what I can do so everyone can see how much little Sydney is growing! I will be thinking about everyone, you are in my thoughts and prayers Take care and as always I LOVE hearing from all of you. I will post again very soon!!
Love Lorie
