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It’s hard to believe that a mere 10 or 20 seconds after these pictures were taken, she decided to throw up all over herself and me (as chronicled here). Before that minor disaster, she seemed to enjoy the bed very much. Here’s hoping she likes it again once she’s expected to sleep in it.

In continuing with our rearrangement, we’ve finally moved Dorrie’s rocking chair up to her room rather than having its purple gingham gracing our living room. We bought a new recliner to replace it (otherwise there’d be no real place for people to sit besides the couch). Dorrie approves of the new chair.

The recliner wasn’t the only new chair to arrive this week. A few months ago, we had ordered a bath chair. MVP naturally denied the claim and it was sent along to medicaid. Medicaid is currently in a mess due to the discontinuation of some federal funds the state had been expecting, and one of the emergency cost cutting measures they had implemented was to pay DME companies cost + 10% of items rather than cost + 30% as they had been. The DME companies were in an uproar as a result, as the new repayment scheme didn’t actually cover their overhead, and quite a lot of equipment wasn’t able to be ordered. After general outrage at disabled little kids not getting wheelchairs, the state backtracked and restored the funding to normal. We knew Dorrie’s bath chair had been caught up in this mess, but we were still trying to find out if it had been ordered when it was suddenly sitting on our porch one night at 9pm when I came home from work.

Dorrie still isn’t sure what to think about it, but I think she won’t have too much trouble getting accustomed to it once we can actually use it for her baths.

Last, a bonus picture: casual Dorrie.

Posted by mom, under insurance drama, moving forward... or not, our little witch