So things are up in the air with Holly's services still. It is all very infuriating.
I got a call today from my caseworker that the second hour of speech therapy was denied upon appeal.
Furthermore she informed me that I am now required to get a denial letter for OT, PT, and Speech from my insurance company.
While PT is approved until September, Speech is only until June and OT is temporarily approved only till July.
I went back and forth with my case worker about how unreasonable this was, and that I already sent the information they needed.
She said it was too vague and not detailed enough and i needed an official letter from them, it is such a pain.
I hardly have time to make it to the bank or post office yet I have to now make all of these phone calls and do all this paperwork.
And the worst case, if it does get approved then Holly has to get three new therapists in a new location.
Anyway it is all very frustrating and annoying, but there isn't much I can do but jump though the hoops for now.
So here Holly is playing ball with her Granny when she visited for her Birthday.
We learned that when Holly is bouncing on the big ball she is really good at catching the ball.
She is getting really good at cooperative play these days and besides tossing the ball back and forth,
She is even rolling the ball as well, which is really good to rotate her arms.
These are some pictures of our Cherry Blossoms, it is only may but they are gone already from the tree, it is just green now.
I wonder if they will come back again later this summer or if the tree only blooms once in the fall.
It was a lot of fun to take these pictures with the new camera, the camera is amazing.
Holly has been getting a lot of drawing in these days, she likes to color and also make requests for us to draw pictures too.
Here she is stealing Tanta Kat's seat. It is a chair Kat brings in for TV night when we all get together to watch lost.
She loves sitting here and pretending she is a big girl and also taking Mommy's drink.
I think she is currently going through a bit of a developmental spurt, or it could be the increase dose of Sertraline.
Maybe it is because we started her back up on the High dose of Folic Acid, which we realized we stopped right when her speech regressed.
So things are up in the air with Holly's services still. It is all very infuriating.
I got a call today from my caseworker that the second hour of speech therapy was denied upon appeal.
Furthermore she informed me that I am now required to get a denial letter for OT, PT, and Speech from my insurance company.
While PT is approved until September, Speech is only until June and OT is temporarily approved only till July.
I went back and forth with my case worker about how unreasonable this was, and that I already sent the information they needed.
She said it was too vague and not detailed enough and i needed an official letter from them, it is such a pain.
I hardly have time to make it to the bank or post office yet I have to now make all of these phone calls and do all this paperwork.
And the worst case, if it does get approved then Holly has to get three new therapists in a new location.
Anyway it is all very frustrating and annoying, but there isn't much I can do but jump though the hoops for now.
So here Holly is playing ball with her Granny when she visited for her Birthday.
We learned that when Holly is bouncing on the big ball she is really good at catching the ball.
She is getting really good at cooperative play these days and besides tossing the ball back and forth,
She is even rolling the ball as well, which is really good to rotate her arms.
These are some pictures of our Cherry Blossoms, it is only may but they are gone already from the tree, it is just green now.
I wonder if they will come back again later this summer or if the tree only blooms once in the fall.
It was a lot of fun to take these pictures with the new camera, the camera is amazing.
Holly has been getting a lot of drawing in these days, she likes to color and also make requests for us to draw pictures too.
Here she is stealing Tanta Kat's seat. It is a chair Kat brings in for TV night when we all get together to watch lost.
She loves sitting here and pretending she is a big girl and also taking Mommy's drink.
I think she is currently going through a bit of a developmental spurt, or it could be the increase dose of Sertraline.
Maybe it is because we started her back up on the High dose of Folic Acid, which we realized we stopped right when her speech regressed.
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2 comments:
This is an interesting blog! The pictures are so sweet but the message is disturbing. So sorry to hear of the hassles getting care. Lucky Holly has you! Persistance Personified! If anyone can get services for her YOU CAN!
I told one of my colleagues about how Holly uses pictures on her I-Touch to communicate, it's so brilliant! My colleague suggested that you tell the FragileX research folks, sounds like an article to me!
Love, Granny
I really hope you can get this figured out so that Holly will continue to thrive. She is such a remarkable little girl, and you are an excellent mommy. The battles just don't end for us, I'm afraid. And it's got to be frustrating to be stuck in that place where she's doing well, but not well enough to not need services, but also not doing so poorly that it's blatantly obvious that she needs services. It's ridiculous. The diagnosis alone should be enough. It should be when it comes time for school. Until then, you may have to continue to fight with people. Good luck to you!
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