First bananas, now avocados. Why does my stomach dislike delicious, healthy fruits so much?!
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Doing better today. I’m realizing that Middle Son really should have a mental illness diagnosis. I need to treat him as I do Older Son when he’s in psychosis. It’s just harder with MS, because he gets so angry/accusatory, unlike OS.
I CAN honestly tell him that my parenting failure was not pushing harder to get him help as he grew up. We did push, but accepted “expert” opinions when they said he was OK. He wasn’t. But like we say in NAMI, we can only know what we know and we can’t use hindsight.
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Actions have consequences. Can’t wait to see you blame someone else though.
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Hey NY Times - thanks for ruining the finale of The Great British Baking Show for me this morning! (They’ve since changed the headline of the article and it also says “spoiler alert”!)
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Holy smokes! How can one 6 lb cat create so much rumbling noise chasing her catnip toy that I thought there was a burglar in the house?! 
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We have our jobs. We have plenty of food. So I feel guilty as I worry about my son’s upcoming flights for some really important auditions and jobs with unavoidable and tight travel windows. There is no real plan B if he gets stuck somewhere. And I am just so annoyed! 
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It’s been less than a week since we turned back the clocks and I already feel like I’ll never get warm or have a life after 4 p.m. again.
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That was kind of creepy! I got a somewhat disturbing phone call tonight and I had to type up my conversation and send to my doctor before I forgot the sequence of the discussion with this person who was calling on behalf of the docs organization. I’ll see how she responds to my message and may post more but it has me concerned that someone, somewhere wants to track my DNA for health purposes and wanted me to lie about it. Something seems terribly wrong here, or I could be over reacting.
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I have to have a bone density test and a mammogram, so made appt. I know the mammo is fully covered but in reviewing my insurance it said ‘radiology’ was $250 and wanted to make sure I was reading that right.
- Called the place I’ve scheduled, but they couldn’t tell me
2, Sent me to billing. Oh no, they are POST testing billing but said it was likely I’d receive a bill from radiology, the radiologist, a facility fee. - Sent me to pre-authorization. She couldn’t find that I had an appt.
- Sent me to financial advising. They never called back.
- Back to place where I have an appt. Nothing.
- Chatted with insurance company. Mammo covered (I knew that) and so is a vascular test. Except a bone density test isn’t vascular. Oh yes, it will cost $250 and up to $150 more as a facility charge. So I say ‘I’ll just cancel’ and then he sends me a link to ‘someone’ who will pay. No, that’s a service to set up insurance, except I HAVE insurance and guess what? It’s with YOU, United healthcare.
- Sends me to an (internal) customer something (advocate?) and that person says it is covered. I say “Prove it” and there it is on page 45 of my benefits manual, that for Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (am I a QMB? why yes I am!) and it is covered once every 2 years.
Could not ONE of the other people tell me this or how to get a pre-authorization? Two hours of my life I’ll never get back.
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I’m pretty grumpy today.
Seeing the air flight ecosystem seemingly melting down today was kinda the last straw.
It’s the callous cruelty of it all. Getting to me!
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All these people with their Christmas 
holiday decor already up gonna be ripping it down at 12:01am December 26…
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I always love the first snow. 
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So worried about my Sis-in-law. Accidentally dialed my brother this morning only to discover that his wife had been taken to ER last night with what appears to be a brain bleed. She had 2 CAT scans last night and is scheduled for another CAT this morning and MRI this afternoon. SIL has late stage CHF and has been on anti-coagulants for a long time. D1 said brain bleeds tend to be pretty common in long term anti-coagulant patients and most patients go home fairly quickly, but still…..I’m worried for both her and my brother. He sounded pretty grim when I spoke with him this morning.
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I really dislike the behavior of one of my students. The things they have said to me in front of staff are jaw dropping. Yet this student still thinks I am to blame for everything. This student thinks they are the center of the universe and they are actually not a strong student at all. Any attempts to correct them or teach them is responded with “I know” (when they in fact do not know or they would have done it right the first time). I know their behavior stems from their own inability to properly deal with their insecurity. As the parent of little kids I know it is stressful to totally start over in your career. They had a job before where they were totally in charge and now they are at the bottom of the chain so to speak. They accused me of being racist against Latinas but no, they are just quite frankly stupid and lacking knowledge. I am not going to treat you like royalty. And I want to remind them that the current clinical group they are in does not have a single white student in it and I parent someone who looks exactly like them physically. If their ego doesnt change their future colleagues are going to hate them. I have worked in healthcare for three decades and I am totally open to tolerating a bit of attitude if the person is skilled. Girl, you have zero skills. You are dumb and you are going to hurt a patient someday if you aren’t willing to admit your own shortcomings.
Rant over.
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Maybe try touching grass. Or kick rocks for all I care.
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Please consider donating to your local (or any) food pantry. Listening to real working people on the news talking about not being able to feed their families encouraged me to make a substantial donation.
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Ahhh… glorious Sunday evening. 65 degrees and sunny. There is nothing like sitting on the deck with my glass of Malbec and listening to a concerto for two leaf blowers and one bush trimmer performed by my neighbor’s garden team. Can’t wait for the trees to finally drop their leaves!
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Ugh, I got caught up in this FAA mess. Trying to look at the bright side. At least I was able to get a hotel room rather than sleeping on the airport floor, and I was able to buy dinner. Please wish me luck in getting home tomorrow!
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Unbelievable
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What did we just tell you last week??? Will you ever learn???
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