News of the Squrm

[hkellick]

The boy is now 10 lbs., which is good. It means he's putting on more than the 1 oz. a day they want him to be putting on, despite any spitups or such.

He's doing well enough that we got the OK to try to feed him every six hours at night so we can all get a little bit more sleep. Not that he loved that last night, but he may have been really gassy yesterday.

K and I are really unimpressed with the people responsible for making sure the boy is on COBRA. We had to fax over a birth certificate. We did on Friday. On Monday, K tried to call and they're only open weekdays from 1-5 and they can't tell us for 2-3 days whether or not the birth certificate was received or not. And when K asked what else was required besides the birth certificate, if any, K never got a good response.

So.. the Squirm still doesn't have health insurance and, to be honest, we're kinda pissed off about it.

That's pretty much it. Some good news, some bad news. Mixed bag.

Comments

[dmsj]

May I ask why you aren't just putting Robert on your insurance, given the trouble you're having with K's? Even outside of an open-enrollment period, a birth is a "qualifying event," which allows you to make changes to the policy.

[phoenixsong]

H's insurance says the qualifying event has to be within 30 days. Robert losing coverage might have qualified, but I'm not sure what the exact date for notification on that was.

Thankfully, I seem to be thisclose || to finally getting things reinstated.

And when H has open enrollment in the fall, we'll both be transferred to his insurance, because it's massively cheaper, and gives us time to make sure all our current doctors will take H's insurance.