Tep, get the ultrasound, just so that's taken care of. If you don't, then you'll have to make another appointment with a new person to get it, and it will get all pushed back again.

Also, WTF is up with switching health care plans all willy nilly like that? TWICE in a YEAR? Is this the doings of the incompetant boss wife-HR lady?

But keep your appointment for the ultrasound. I command you! Or... something.

That blows, Tep. Sorry to hear about it.

I mean, I know I'm lucky to have insurance (and we don't pay *anything* of our premium; our company covers it all), but Jesus -- who *isn't* on Aetna??? That's a huge fucking company!

Ideally, the ultrasound just comes back showing nothing horrific, and then after vacation I guess I find a new OB/GYN and try to figure out why all the pain.

Plan B, sub-part IIIx could be that the ultrasound turns up something so horrific that they put me in the hospital that day and deal with it, in which case it would be covered.

But if it turns up something non-horrific yet problematic, then I'm fucked fucked fucked. I mean, *yes,* I know I just go find someone else, which doesn't actually fall under the definition of "fucked."

But god DAMN. It's just such a pain. Literally.

It's Blarney Castle! Hilarious, no?

omg Jars. that's too funny.

you aren't all going to try to kiss the stone at the same time, though, right? that's not the task?

{{Teppy}}.

::bitch-slaps Teppy's insurance(s)::

TWICE in a YEAR? Is this the doings of the incompetant boss wife-HR lady?

Maybe, but I'm betting it's also a factor of the realities of small businesses trying to provide health care.

What's NOT okay: we're changing our health insurance here for the second time this year, effective July 1, and my OB/GYN -- of course -- isn't on the new insurance. Which means that if I have fibroids or alien babies or something, I have to go find a totally new OB/GYN to deal with it.

Oh, bloody hell - what a mess.

[insert rant about how in a single-payer system this sort of thing wouldn't be an issue]

I'm with Nora - get the ultrasound. and talk to you doctor about the health insurance plan.

We just had to switch plans this month. Snafu due to some how DH and I being put into they system as being born in 1919.

Off to the vet ina few to learn to shoot the cat.

Also, WTF is up with switching health care plans all willy nilly like that? TWICE in a YEAR? Is this the doings of the incompetant boss wife-HR lady?

Yup. Anything to save a buck. And don't get me wrong -- like I said, they pay our whole premium -- but Big!Boss's daughter (who works here and is thus covered) ran into a problem with some surgery her husband had, like they had to pay thousands out of pocket. So I'm thinking that was the catalyst to change. Woo.

I hate health insurance in this country - it's just all fucked up.

And changing insurance twice a year just adds to the craxy.

And changing insurance twice a year just adds to the craxy.

We started the year with Anthem, switched in February to this weird plan that no one ever heard of, and July apparently will be Aetna.

I'm betting that by October we're on to a plan where our medical coverage is just some dude with a car trunk full of rusty hand saws and NyQuil.

happy birthday askye