Part of the joy of the household is that the main Foodchik works with Health Insurance providers and is privy to the language of diagnosis codes. The youngest boy has a propensity for managing to get whacked in the family jewels. We, a funny people by nature, have come up with a variety of responses to this including, but not limited to asking him if he needs ICD number 54520, which is the code for: Orchiectomy, simple (including subcapsular), with or without testicular prosthesis, scrotal or inguinal approach: 54660: Insertion of testicular prosthesis (separate procedure) 54690: Laparoscopic, surgical; orchiectomy: 55175: Scrotoplasty; simple: 55180 : complicated: 55970” Gender Affirming Surgery - Medical Clinical Policy Bulletins ... or in layman’s terms, getting your nuts cut off. You would think that this would reduce the frequency of such outbursts, but you would be wrong. This increasingly enormous human being regularly gets hit in the nads, grabs himself, looks skyward, and exclaims, “not again!” Dogs, table corners ( our table is round, go figure), chairs, cats, anything with a handle, elbows, his own bookbag, and bicycle parts have all been guilty of assaulting this child’s anatomy.
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