Friday, January 27

Thank you for responding to last week's blog. We are enjoying your wise words and loving support.

We are still in the middle of fighting our HMO. They have officially denied letting Dr. Beamer do the surgery. They have sent us to another neurosurgeon at UCSD who we liked initially, but he hasn't done bone flap replacement surgery much so we are very uneasy. At least that's the conclusion we came to when he wouldn't answer our simple question as to how many times he's done this surgery. Now we're working on an appeal. We've contacted the Department of Managed Health Care and they will try to help us. Every step takes sooo long and time at the point is of the essence.

Ryan is not well. His head hurts constantly, he's nauseated, throws up almost daily, stays in bed and just lays there because even watching TV makes him sick. I honestly can't begin to understand how this is health care!!! Dr. Beamer is trying to help us get it resolved too, but with the weekend upon us, we sit for another 2 days and wait until everyone is back at work on Monday.

I wasn't going to write this blog because we really don't have any great news at this moment, but it's been so long since I last updated you, I thought I'd better let you know what's happening.

Thank you again for your prayers and support. You are all so wonderful.

Debi