the next step

[kitanzi]

People may well be sick of my ongoing medical crap - I certainly am - so be aware that's what's behind the cut tag.



The bad news - $20 copay per visit, two visits per week, and the insurance company is saying four weeks, plus the therapist agrees that if it's a bone spur this won't do any good. However, he's familiar with the insurance company and agrees that they do this all the time, and there's not much point in fighting it.

The good news - he's not stupid, and volunteered the information that if this didn't appear to be providing any relief in a couple of weeks worth of appointments then he would send an official note to my doctor to give the insurance company saying so.

So, the upshot is that it may turn out to be a waste of time and money after all, but I was probably just as well not fighting tooth and nail with the insurance company on it, and it will be cut short if it does prove to be so. The PT guy is also very nice, though he seemed very tired and not much sense of humor. On the other hand, I overheard a bit of conversation suggesting he had already worked 12 hours by the time I got there! I think I'd be much less pleasant under those circumstances. It was a first appointment, so it was mostly evaluation, ultrasound and passive movement (he seems oddly impressed with just how screwed up it is - kept saying "This is a bad shoulder." "This is an unhappy shoulder." No kidding... I'm an unhappy shoulderuser.) So this the shape of my weeks for the next few. I also have exercises for at home again, and repeated admonishments to not strain it and use ice a lot. Pretty much what I already knew. *sigh*

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