Health Care Crisis

We have a health care crisis here of EPIC proportions.

Son #2 is on Week #4 of puking/pooping/dizzy/headaches.  His platelettes are high, indicating he's fighting ann infection, but his poop test and blood test came back "negative."  He doesn't have H1N1, and he doesn't have mono.  

He has missed 3 weeks of school, and he shows  no signs of getting better.  His nights and days are mixed up because he gets more sick during the night, so he's up half the night puking and getting hot flashes and watching Nick at Night.  Then he sleeps all day and is lethargic while he's awake.  We had his stomach X-Ray'd on Friday, and he fell asleep on the way home from the hospital. 

We shall get the results of the X-Ray on Monday, and if they show something, then MAYBE the GI Specialist will get him in before January 22, which is the next available appointment. 

We are frustrated and worried, to say the least.  We should probably pack him up and head to University Town to the Children's Hospital there, where they might fit him in sooner. 

AND THE REAL CRISIS is we don't know how much of this the EBIL Insurance Company will pay for.  IF WE CAN GET HELP for him, that is...

I should write to President Obama -- he could use our story to show how even "middle-class folks" WITH insurance get screwed every day in our country.  Plus, the ACCESS to the health care is abominable. 

OH well, just another example of how we feel we get screwed in this country, and another story to highlight how badly we need health-care reform in this country.  We are so close right now, but yet so far.