{"id":320,"date":"2011-01-05T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2011-01-23T21:20:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T03:20:59","slug":"year-of-our-chris-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/05\/year-of-our-chris-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of Our Chris, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re in the new year and are determined to make this Christopher’s year! We’re working with an Austin rehab facility that we are feeling very comfortable with and have received many very positive leads and comments from readers of the Austin Statesman after Christopher’s news article<\/a> ran in last Sunday’s paper.<\/p>\n

We purchased a Reck Motomed Viva 2 for Chris for leg and arm exercises in his room and are working on purchasing a standing frame to get him up and on his feet. When Texas Neuro cut off Chris’ therapies, we, as a family, put Chris into a standing frame twice daily and he did very well with it. Chris will additionally get some “stand time” in an auto ambulator at the newest rehab facility we’re using. We’re still missing the hyperbaric treatment part of the original plan before the DARS cut but the creative thinking cap is on and there may be another way to make that happen. We’ve learned of some promising neuro stimulants that we’re looking into.<\/p>\n

Chris continues to have health insurance coverage, albeit through United Healthcare, the folks that have given us a very difficult time. Chris’s medical insurance has been paid through April of 2012. But just because you have medical insurance doesn’t mean that you necessarily have medical coverage, even when it’s provided for in the policy. For example, Chris has a calendar year 60-day skilled nursing benefit in his plan but United healthcare, according to the current nursing home business manager, “unequivacally” denied it. So we had to pay for it. I’ve heard folks say, “take them to court,” and we’re moving down that road, but in the meantime, we have to pay it out of pocket until it gets resolved.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that for-profit healthcare is just that, for profit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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