<strong>December 19,2009</strong>

We are still here-although I am wondering why.  The doctors don’t think we can handle the babies feeding tubes.  After dealing with all of Melissa’s needs I’m thinking piece of cake.  I talked to a friend of the family who has been doing home health for 25 years and even she agreed when it comes to our family an NG tube would be easy.  I am looking into having home health because of the tubes.  They would have to be in the home 24 hours a day until the tubes came out hopefully in the next couple of weeks.  I am being told that home health is usually only approved for children on a vent and we would not get approved for such a minor thing.  I’m scratching my  head because I can only imagine that we are looking at about 10,000 a day to be in the NICU between both babies with a home heath care nurse being a fraction of that.  As of right now we are also cash pay clients so anything we can do to reduce that cost without sacrificing care while getting our family back together is what needs to happen.