DEENA! Yay!

Hubby has gone for decades without a gallbladder, and that loss has never bothered him. May you feel terrific again!

amyth, I'm sorry you are hurting. Having a phone is a good thing, very useful for many practical things, even if your iPhone happens to be fancy and have lots of frivolous uses, it still has that practical function. So you know, not a silly desire to have it with you.

amyth got her phone back. I was going to go get it, but her boss sent another co-worker by with it.

I am SO TIRED of wanting to eat everything that can't outrun me.

I only wish I had the steroid excuse for this current trend. Sigh.

I need some major ~ma. My COBRA situation is really fucked up. I'm still not getting a straight answer. But I'm outside the HMO's coverage so I can't get the HMO.

According to at least one person I've talked to BC/BS is not an option. According the same person even though there's no coverage for me to pay for I can't get my money back.

I spoke to a supervisor who is "researching" the situation. But at this point, I just want to take my chances and see if I can qualify for the VT state plan. The monthly cost of the COBRA is about the same as my medication out of pocket.

I'm still reeling over the fact I was told by one person that even though there is no coverage option and they just got my payment I couldn't get my money back at all. I've been told so many different things by so many different people I don't even know what to believe now.

Hurrah for amyth's boss and coworker!

askye, I don't even know what to say. That bugs the hell out of me on your behalf.

Askye not a lawyer but that does not sound legal. Provide coverage or give money back.

Well I talked to Ceridian and basically they sent a letter saying I can get coverage through -- some plan. I don't know what the letter says, no one can tell me, I just have to wait.

I'll still have the same coverage since Federal law says they have to cover it. And supposedly they'll also reimburse me for the prescription I paid out of pocket. But at this point I no longer have an option. I have to chose whatever the alternate plan is and take the coverage for however long it lasts or lose the money I sent in. Because it's been dispursed to my old HMO- which doesn't even have a record of me opting in for COBRA coverage at all.

Monday I'm going to call my former employer, talk to them, and find how I can make sure the check that was sent to the HMO deosn't get lost and I'm just told tough luck.

If this had been correctly explained to me by Ceridian the FIRST time I called them (or the second, or the third, or the fourth). I could have just not sent the check, or put a stop payment on it. But now I can't.

I will have coverage so that's good. I just am not happy with having to make 2 dozen phone calls (appx) and getting different answers almost every single time.

It's like a much worse repeat of the Uhaul sitauation.

Health coverage is such a minefield. I don't know if anyone understands it.

Unrelatedly (SOO unrelatedly), I could browse sex toys forever. I can't believe the things people do for dirty nekkid fun. It never seems to end, and whoah, nellie, some of the prices.