We've had to find out on our own about almost every treatment we've gotten for Sam.  Even his specialists, who make a gazillion dollars a year, haven't researched his treatments. 

• Despite the fact that I was high risk at 39 years old, had labor pains for two weeks, Sam's heartrate was going down, and I had been at the hospital in labor for almost 12 hours, the doctor left the hospital to go out to dinner.   Doesn't even seem possible. 
• If Sam had been born almost anywhere else in the world under the same circumstances, they'd have put him in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber immediately, and expected full or near full recovery quickly.  He'd have been out of the hospital before me, probably.
• Had he been born in some parts of Europe and the doctor DIDN'T put him in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, he'd lose his license. 
• If I had gone into labor in any other country in the world, I'd have been screaming to get back to the U.S.  
• The FDA is approving a "cool cap" which should be available next month for use in neonatal intensive care units.  It should dramatically decrease brain damage for infants born deprived of oxygen.  It's basically an ice pack.  It cools just the head, just a few degrees, so the chemicals that cause brain damage aren't released.  AN ICE PACK.  Why didn't someone know?
• We have to leave the country to get stem cell treatments.
• The anesthetist was apparently having a fit waiting for the obstetrician to get back from dinner, yelling that he was going to do the surgery himself.  If he had, Sam would be having a much easier time. I might not have made it, but he'd not be fighting so hard every day if they had gotten to him quicker.
• Although our insurance has been really good throughout all of this, there are some things that just aren't covered.  Any medical equipment is almost criminally high-priced, just because it can be.  Sam's bath chair, which is basically a beach chair with low legs, costs FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.  How do these people sleep at night?