Stanford Marathon

I leave with Mom for Stanford this Sunday, my first time on a plane so that will be a strange new experience, especially bypassing security with the SCS card. We actually have to go to five different appointments while we're there, which I want to stress to anyone going to an out of state inpatient program. Make sure to find out if it's multi-disciplinary, because if it is you will have many different trips if you don't do your homework on what appointments you need to schedule ahead of time, or are lucky like me and have a super amazing, friendly scheduler on the phone that actually reads the file. Boy was I glad to hear back from her!

"Ms., I'm the clinic appointment scheduler you just spoke with on the phone a few minutes ago from Stanford, I was looking at your file and it says your doctor prescribed a multi-disciplinary inpatient pain program?" 

Me: "yeah..." 

Her: " Well, that means you'll need to come in for a physical therapy and psychology eval. appointment as well, and a team conference eval. Since I see you are coming from out of state, I wanted to call back and ask if you'd like to schedule those now as well so that we can get all your appointments in the same day, that way you don't have to fly back out again and again.

Me: O.O "YES PLEASE!!!"

WHAT A LIFESAVER! We couldn't afford to fly out there five different times, because we'd need to go out for a clinic eval, psych eval, physical therapy eval, team conference thing, and the appointment where they take all those results and tell us whether or not I would get any benefit from the program, thus deciding whether or not I even get to do it. This way, we have the first three appointments Monday, then Tuesday we have a day off to just hang out because the team conference wasn't on the schedule that day, and Wednesday we do the conference thing and our final appointment where we figure out if I get to be a part of the inpatient program. We have to fly out Sunday though because there were no flights available Monday that would get us there in time for the first appointment. Then we head back home Wednesday night.