OT: You are NOT going to believe this, just my luck!, warning long and ranting!!!

Kenda · 2005-06-01T03:09:08+00:00

Okay, so you all know the saga of my gallbladder adventures. It continues! NO!!! you say! Well, the good news is I'm feeling a little better every day. Though by the evening I'm really exhaused and hurting. Thursday is/was THE DAY. I went and had blood drawn this morning for tests before THE surgery. Took care of some business that I needed to get done. One of them was go to the dr.'s office to find out why the paper work I'd submitted for work hadn't been filled out. (I faxed them and apparently they are now charging $15 to fill them out, so they were waiting on my to come in and pay. Never mind there isn't a notice and noone called, it's been over a week!) Got that straightened out. Got by the safety deposit box to retrieve adoption papers so DS#1 could get his learners permit changed over to his adopted name and renewed. (I'll eventually need a chauffer after all! LOL ) Got home from letting him drive nearly 30 minutes from the state police headquarters. At 4:30 the phone rings, it's the surgeons office. It appears that my insurance company (which isn't an insurance company but a "benefit management company") has denied approval for my gallbladder to be removed. Seems I don't "meet the criteria". I was stunned. Even worse, the "medical director" has to talk to the surgeon before he can approve it, the "medical director" won't be back in his office until JUNE 6TH!!!!! In the mean time, I'm burning sick leave, need to have this thing out, something else looked at (that I'm really concerned about) This is sooo typical. I tried to call the department Chief to see if he had any bright ideas or could get the city finance guy (whom I believe sits on the board of our "benefit management company") to pull some strings for me, but he'd left for the day. (it was done shortly after I hired on and my DS #2 needed surgery but had a "pre-existing condition". One phone call by one of our captains that was friends with the finiance guy and all was paid...

Jun 01, 2005 64 Replies

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Deb in AR 21 years ago

The scrapper's life-long motto: But I need more stuff!! LOL

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Kenda 21 years ago

We've about given up. But if the "medical director" doesn't approve it I'll have to try to go back to work as we don't have the $10,000 for the surgery, half is up front and we don't have that either. If I go back to work I'll just have to hope this doesn't reach a crisis (and it will) while someone else's life is in my hands...or my own. Thanks for the good thoughts and prayers Judy.

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Kenda 21 years ago

That's right, just never know when you might need something like that! LOL

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Deb in AR 21 years ago

We're not collectors. We just want to make sure we have everything covered so we don't have to make a mad dash to the LSS. After all, that would use more gas in the car/truck/SUV than making one big trip to the LSS! See, we're saving on gas when we do these big LSS shopping sprees.

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