Sad Day

It was a sad day yesterday for my Jayhawks. I thought I'd post some pictures anyway from our trip to the Clay Center zoo park. Its got some fun photo ops, especially when the flowers start blooming. Sadly, my Jayhawks lost in the NCAA tournament last night. It was devastating, but in the overall scheme, its just a game. I am partial to my hawks, but I do cheer for the cats as well. It has frustrated me a tad bit to have family try to sway my children either way and not let them make their own decisions about who to cheer for. I also don't like bad-mouthing the other team. I think that is really distasteful and just plain unsportsmanlike, which I don't want my kids to learn. I think part of the biggest turn off for me to be a wildcat fan is the attitudes I get from the fans I know. That being said, I'll still cheer for them and hope they do well. I even dressed my boys in the K-State shirts yesterday.





Today is the final day of spring break. Its back to early mornings, work, and school tomorrow! The past couple days have been hard for me. My heart rate has sky-rocketed with just the littlest of activity and I've felt as awful as I did back in December when it was out of control and I just couldn't seem to catch a break. The exhaustion level was the same, which kinda caught me off guard. So, I've been in bed most of today and yesterday (except for a baby shower I went to for my new cousin). Today was so sweet because as I was laying down in bed, Logan came to talk to me and as he laid down, he curled up in the blankie. I said, "are you tired?" and he replied "no" and so I asked if he liked naps and he said, "No, I don't like naps, but I weally love you mommy!" So, he laid down and took a nap with me and was my cuddle buddy. What a precious sign of affection from my little five-year old. He's a keeper of my heart for sure.

This week is busy with many things. I'm mostly anxious about my appointment Thursday in Wichita. I'm praying that this doctor will be a better listener and also have some knowledge and skill to fix me. I think I forgot to mention (and please forgive me if I've already put this), we got our bill from Galachia! WOW! First of all, we HAD to go to the dr there because of insurance. That's why they denied the KU Med dr that was one of the 1st picks. So, since we went to this dr because of insurance, later we found out that just because insurance covered him didn't mean they covered the place he worked!!!! I just about had a heart attack. We got our bill from Galachia hospital (not the dr services) and it was $23K! The insurance did write off a little bit of their 'allowable amount' or something like that, so our final bill (what we owed) ended up being $17K!!!!!! That was for checking in at 7am Friday and checking out 5pm Saturday and having the worst hospital care ever! So, Shawn called Galachia and told them how ridiculous that was and asked how much we would pay if we didn't have insurance. Get ready for this- $5K! So, they knocked our bill down to that. Isn't it wonderful to pay outrageous insurance premiums each month, knowing that pretty much they're worthless!? So, now that we're headed to a new dr (insurance approved), I'm a tad bit nervous of racking up even more debt. We've been trying soo hard to get our family out of debt so we can live freely, giving and saving like we'd like to.