Shoulder Issues

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 After losing nearly 130 pounds so far, it scares me that my shoulder has been acting up for the past month.  The pain is inside the shoulder - sometimes it feels like the back of the shoulder, sometimes it feels more towards the bicep - but it's constant.  I'm never one to complain about pain, but after a shot of cortisone didn't help much, and three weeks of PT just aggravated it, I was left waiting for the insurance company to approve an MRI.    Last year I paid a bit over $33,000 for my family of 5's insurance policy.  Mind you, it doesn't even kick in until we hit our deductible - which is another $12,000 ... but we do get the "insured" price breaks.  Obviously we don't ever use as much as we put in.  Except this year we might - after Hisham was RX'd with Covid last year, hospitalized over Christmas, back to the hospital right after New Year with blood clots, which led to finding a small mass on his kidney, I'm thinking we've already hit our deductible this year.  He's scheduled for a couple procedures now to find out what it is on his kidney, and then Leenah calls ... she fell down the same steps she fell down a year ago, but this time while holding onto a railing.  Three steps.  Whatever the Dr. fixed last year with the donor tendon must not have worked because her knee snapped out again.  She's scheduled for an MRI this week.  I finally got approval for my own MRI this week.  We will certainly be getting our money's worth from the insurance company this year, which isn't such a great thing :( 

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