Step Two!

{note: my spouse is currently deployed, so he is not here to do any part of this, and won't be back until just a few months before we move. Your experience might be much different if your service member is here to help navigate the overseas waters!}

In about the past two-three weeks we ended up having nearly 40 appointments! It was busy, but everywhere gave us "group" appointments, so that helped a lot. (They would schedule us all separately, but process us in clusters to make things much more speedy!) I got the pound of paperwork almost complete. I have to say the quantity of our appointments is not normal. There are a lot, but we just had snags that required more visits in some cases. 

STEP TWO! Medical and Dental 

We had both medical and dental screenings that deemed us either fit or not recommended for overseas. We live nearest to Camp Lejuene, so we processed there. Our regular out in town doctor gave us the medical part. It was time consuming, but totally not stressful. We all are good to go!

Dental worked like this: we went to my husbands dental clinic on base in person. We then got appointments, and lots of paperwork to bring back. You MUST open a file on base with dental because base will be your dental provider overseas. The next business day we went back. I had ALL 5 dental records and x rays in hand from our off base dentists. This made the process smoother. We all got basic exams, and two got x rays to double check our very recent civilian xrays.The staff was very child friendly and nice. I was concerned because 99.99% of the patients there are service members, and my kids go to a pediatric dentist who talks in kid vernacular....sugar bugs (cavities) and princess pillows (the cotton pads)! But my children were satisfied with their visit, and I was thrilled. 

NOTE: go to your dentist for a cleaning and check up prior to base dental visit. Get anything needed done. It will save you time and frustration. From my experience, base does not mess around. They don't skimp on what you need done. They are thorough and more "picky" from those out in town, from what I saw and have heard from my off base dentist. We went a few weeks prior to base dental to our civilian dentists and we passed the oral exam no issues on base. I was impressed with the dentist on base. 

They did makes notes of things they want done with me, to "make things perfect" (like to smooth out the edge of a filling, etc)  but none needs to be done before we move...just ideas for the long term. 

So next I have to review all paperwork. Then await my husbands paperwork. He has to have a fit for overseas report, even though he is overseas now, in the very place we will be moving to! :)