What a day yesterday!  For whatever reason, I was expecting a nice, normal day.  Alli had an appointment with her spine specialist yesterday, which means she needed x-rays first - no big deal, we've done this several times already.  We went to MD Imaging at 8:00 (love the place!  everyone is very nice!) for a quick set of x-rays, dropped her off at daycare and went to work.  Work was very busy - it's almost the end of the month, which is always busier than the rest of the month.  I left again to go get Alli and take her to see the specialist.  We didn't even have to wait very long (which was very unusual!) and .... her scoliosis has progressed.

The x-rays were taken with her out of her brace.  The original curvature was a 47 degree at the top and a 55 degree curvature at the bottom of her spine.  She is now at 49 and 59.  Bummer.  The last set taken in March had shown no change - which was good.  The doctor then wanted to see x-rays of her in her brace, so....back we go to MD Imaging for another set of x-rays, and then back to the doctor's.  Then we get to wait for him to 'fit us in' to see us again.  It really wasn't too long, I've waited almost as long for a regular appointment, but we didn't see him again until almost noon.  With the brace on, her curvature was at 43 degrees and 61 degrees.  The top was good, but the bottom was not.  Now we go to the brace specialist. The doctor mentioned that he thought we needed a whole new brace built for her.  After all this, I took Alli back to daycare.  She missed the entire day of school, and I missed over half the day at work.

In the mean time, Ralph had an MRI on his leg.  He probably won't get results back from the doctor until Friday, if it is anything like AJ's MRI.  We'll see.  I'm thinking this is going to be an expensive summer for medical bills.  The insurance company set us a notice that they covered $0.27 of AJ's MRI because of his deductible.  I told Ralph we should offer to save them money by paying that $0.27 ourselves - it will cost them more than that to mail a check!

And....AJ went out to the college last night for an orientation, and is ready to sign up for his classes (about $500.00 for the classes and $700 - $1,000 for the books!) and he got a parking ticket while he was out there - another $25.00!  I was ready to go to bed early and call the day done, I tell you!