INSURANCE WOES.............Resolved

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Well,

Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was on the phone with them all day yesterday and

by 5:00 PM EDT, they could not get the computer to accept my reinstatement!

Duh................

So went another night without medication, etc. Fumed about it all night.

Woke up at about 5:00 AM with SEVERE stomach pains and signs of internal

bleeding. Yikes!!!!!!could it be a littler stress??????? Waiting for the

phone to ring, finally had to place a long distance call to Indianapolis (of

course, no toll free number) and the associates voice mail said that she

would be in meetings all day long. She finally called back at 10:45 AM that

ALL benefits had been reinstated including pharmacy.

While I was trying to resolve this thing yesterday, she gave me a lecture

about how stupid I could be for sending " something as important as insurance

premiums to a post office box " !!!!! Well, that is the only address they gave

me and I have previously Express Mail my payment via this method in the past

and also with other companies. Fed Ex requires a street address, but Express

Mail by snail mail just requires a PO box or street address. So she argued

with me about who is going to sign for this payment and she had never heard

of anything like this. Grrrrrrrrrrr. So now I have my tracking number, my

check number and all my documentation and she says well she is waiting a

callback from COBRA for them to tell her that they have my check in their hot

little hands. Now, according to the Express Mail tracker, they received my

check and signed for it on Saturday @ 8:00 AM and this thing was not

reinstated until this AM. Well, I guess I should not complain, at least it

is all resolved for right now. This is the second time this has happened in

the 4 months that I have been on COBRA. I think that once the knee surgery

is done, I will just switch over to Ron's insurance as I can get a continuity

of care for a certain length of time. Well, next month, probably round

3!!!!!!!!!!

Remicade has been rescheduled for Thursday and the plans for surgery are

going in a forward motion, I think. I do think I will be calling eligibility

prior to going to ANY doctor's appt or anyplace!!!!

We, I mean Ron, got our outdoor fireplace up, now I just need to wait for the

temperature to go below 90 degrees!!!! It looks great and is just outside my

Jacuzzi so it should keep up toasty warm. Well, tonight, the fountain! We

took 2/3 of the remaining backyard to make the " little rest spot " , filled it

in with wood chips and the dog now thinks that it is his personal potty box,

so that will be something for us to work on. If I am not fighting with the

insurance company and the doctors, it is the pets........sometimes it seems

like the same!!!!!!!

Have a pain free evening!!!!

Gentle, tender, angel hugs,

Debs in FL