Today marks the day that we had to formally start getting every thing in line for Sophie Wei's surgery and our leave from work.
Today we feel blessed for many things.
One is that we have enough sick leave between Rick and myself that we will be able to stay home and take care of Sophie Wei during and after her surgery until she is healthy. We will find out in three weeks if she will have two surgery's at the same time or just her one (hip and/or club foot flextion surgery) and more answers to all of our questions.
Today Judy who is in charge of payroll spent much time with me explaining how financial things work during sick leave and leave with out pay. I can not be happier with how sweet she was with me and so willing to answer all of my questions. I am so glad that she was so clear because I had misunderstood some things. We are trying to cover all of our different scenarios of what is going to happen after the surgery and reality is that we need to have income to pay our bills, eat and run our house hold. What I want is much different than what reality is. Honestly I would love to take the rest of the year off and be home with Sophie Wei but that is not highly possible for us. At some point, sooner than later, we want to be out of debt and we need to make good decisions for our family.
That Rachel W. was so honest with sharing her advice on long term leave, etc. It is nice to talk to others who have been through it.
The last thing I did was talk to Kaiser, our insurance company about how much the surgery would cost? I started crying when she said that it would be covered fully and would not cost us a dime, not even a co-pay! I even had to ask her two more times to make sure that was correct because I could not believe it. She said we would have to pay 20% for a wheel chair rental, etc. but that should not be too bad. After having some deep things to think about today in regards to financial things it really was a blessing.
Then we also found out that Sophie Wei was approved to be tested in the school district where we work. We are having her tested for the basics, motor development, cognitive, hearing, speech, etc. There was a new law that went into affect two months ago that all preschool children of school district employees that have special needs can have a boundary exception. That was a blessing. We are not for what Sophie Wei will qualify but it will be good to know where she is at since we do not know for sure what they meant by her being developmentally delayed.
So things are moving along. Rick and I have been trying to spend some time at school getting ready for the new year. One of us will go to work then the other. Sophie Wei and Simone have been adjusting to that as well and it shows up the most at bed time and during their sleep. Not sleeping well and being fussy when going to sleep. So hopefully in a few days this small transition will pass and they will be back to normal.
Today we feel blessed for many things.
One is that we have enough sick leave between Rick and myself that we will be able to stay home and take care of Sophie Wei during and after her surgery until she is healthy. We will find out in three weeks if she will have two surgery's at the same time or just her one (hip and/or club foot flextion surgery) and more answers to all of our questions.
Today Judy who is in charge of payroll spent much time with me explaining how financial things work during sick leave and leave with out pay. I can not be happier with how sweet she was with me and so willing to answer all of my questions. I am so glad that she was so clear because I had misunderstood some things. We are trying to cover all of our different scenarios of what is going to happen after the surgery and reality is that we need to have income to pay our bills, eat and run our house hold. What I want is much different than what reality is. Honestly I would love to take the rest of the year off and be home with Sophie Wei but that is not highly possible for us. At some point, sooner than later, we want to be out of debt and we need to make good decisions for our family.
That Rachel W. was so honest with sharing her advice on long term leave, etc. It is nice to talk to others who have been through it.
The last thing I did was talk to Kaiser, our insurance company about how much the surgery would cost? I started crying when she said that it would be covered fully and would not cost us a dime, not even a co-pay! I even had to ask her two more times to make sure that was correct because I could not believe it. She said we would have to pay 20% for a wheel chair rental, etc. but that should not be too bad. After having some deep things to think about today in regards to financial things it really was a blessing.
Then we also found out that Sophie Wei was approved to be tested in the school district where we work. We are having her tested for the basics, motor development, cognitive, hearing, speech, etc. There was a new law that went into affect two months ago that all preschool children of school district employees that have special needs can have a boundary exception. That was a blessing. We are not for what Sophie Wei will qualify but it will be good to know where she is at since we do not know for sure what they meant by her being developmentally delayed.
So things are moving along. Rick and I have been trying to spend some time at school getting ready for the new year. One of us will go to work then the other. Sophie Wei and Simone have been adjusting to that as well and it shows up the most at bed time and during their sleep. Not sleeping well and being fussy when going to sleep. So hopefully in a few days this small transition will pass and they will be back to normal.
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