Day 131: Speech Therapy and Gospel Music

Posted on | January 10, 2008 |

Today was crammed with appointments for me and The Son. I started out the day with a morning appointment at my doctor’s office for a blood draw for a thyroid test. Painful and annoying but no copay necessary — the insurance company should pick up the whole tab.

The next appointment was for The Son to see the speech therapist. He and I had an appointment last week where we met the therapist to discuss The Son’s communication issues/difficulties and evaluate whether or not speech therapy would offer any help. We’ve subsequently agreed to try weekly 45-minute sessions for the next month and then re-evaluate. Our insurance will not cover any of this work as his need falls into the “developmental” category and not “rehabilitative.” Today I paid for both the initial session and today’s session — $140.00.

The third and final appointment was for The Son to visit the dentist. We all just had our 6-month cleanings but The Son needed to go back to sealings applied to his molars. This appointment, like the morning’s blood draw, should be covered by our insurance. If they don’t cover 100%, I’m sure I’ll hear about it soon enough

Tonight, after dinner, while The Daughter went off to work on a 20-page compare-and-contrast research paper and her trig homework, The Husband, The Son, and I watched the Tom Hanks remake of The Ladykillers*. The Husband and I both loved the opening credits gospel song, Come, Let Us Go Back To God* by Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers. Those two $15 iTunes gift cards I received for Christmas have been burning a hole in my pocket so I bought that tune along with Under The Milky Way* by The Church. Each song cost me $1.06 (including tax) but my out-of-pocket cost was $0.00