Blessings I Don't See At the Moment

April 16, 2014

There were so many things to take care of before a surgery and being the inexperienced mom of course all these unexpected, last minute calls just drove me nuts.

I called the Dr's office early in the morning and tried to make sure everything was line up with Evan's surgery. The nurse supposed to give Evan a call for the pre-surgery instruction two days ago but we didn't get any until 2:11pm after the office lady called about the change of his surgeon and time for the surgery.  I supposed to get Evan to the surgical center at 11:00am according to the letter but the surgeon wanted to squeeze Evan in at 12:00pm, so we needed to be there at 10:45am.  And since Dr. P Bernsteix was not feeling well, his brother would fill him in -- a Dr. we have never seen before!

I tried to be nice and not complained about this (I just want Evan to have the surgery done, that's it), but at the same time I was kind of upset of how disorganized it is!  What's more?  The office lady on the phone told me that the Dr. would like me to get a prescription of crutches and medication.  I thought we could get everything at one location since she called Paoli Pharmacx for crutches and Pathmarx for his pain medicine.... so, I requested her to fax the prescription (crutches) to CVX in Berwyn.  Little did I know that it's a challenge to find a local, in network medical device provider.

It was passed 3:00pm since we started calling back and forth with the prescription.  Somehow, I had an impression that the prescription was sent to CVX through the conversation with the office lady .  Since I don't have access to which stores carries the crutches, so I called the insurance for help.  The first person gave me a pharmacy in KOP but I later found out that the store didn't have any.  I was surprised and pretty desperate as I called Store #4 in Wayne but it turned out that they actually carries them at the store but it was 4:45 as I called and they close at 5:00pm.  There's no way for me to pick up the prescription at CVX and be there at Wayne on time.  Not to mention that I wasn't able to get the prescription from CVX because the Dr. never sent one to begin with.  I was beating myself up at that moment!

However, here's one of the most important lesson that I learned -- As we went back to the car, Evan said "Let's borrow the crutches from the Urbinx's".... That's right!  They had it and we could borrow from them.

The big lesson here:  Sometimes, we only see frustration along the path and not being able to vision the end of the tunnel (the blessings) ahead of us.  It's so much brighter and well planned that we could ever think of.  Why do I have to be on the phone for two hours and didn't get anything done before 5:00pm?  $45 or more was saved for those 2 hours!!!!