Ginger, I share your stabby rage.

We are switching insurance June 1st. Our current insurance is Aetna. Despite paying our premium for May, Aetna dropped us on May 1st. It was an error on their part, but they can't reinstate it until Monday.

Try and follow all this:

I found out that on our new insurance, getting an IUD will be close to $1,000. Under Aetna, it's the cost of a co-pay. My IUD needs to be swapped out for a new one in August. Because I can do math, I made an appointment to have it done before the end of May, while we're still on Aetna.

I was supposed to have it done tomorrow.

Since Aetna says we aren't covered, my OB/GYN can't do it, because they have to actually order the Mirena from CVS Caremark. When they tried to do that, CVS Caremark said that I had no insurance. They can't just do it anyway, have me pay out of pocket, and get reimbursed from Aetna later (not that that's ideal, but it would get it done). It seriously has to go through my insurance. So I'm wondering what my OB/GYN does with patients who don't have insurance. I guess patients without insurance go to Planned Parenthood.

Anyway, once the insurance is reinstated -- and all that has to be done is that the damn computer records need to be changed -- then CVS Caremark will send the goddamn IUD to my OB/GYN, and I can get it done. And in theory, on Monday, all that red tape can be dealt with, and next Friday I can get it done.

But it's really fucking close to the end of the month, and if something goes wrong with all this and the IUD doesn't get sent to my OB/GYN by next Friday, I'm damn near out of time, because the following Monday is Memorial Day, and I assume everyone is closed then. The day after Memorial Day is May 31, so I could technically still do it then, but of course that would depend on whether my OB/GYN has an appointment available.

I'm just violently angry at everyone right now.

Smite to the insurance companies being evil! I'm sorry, Teppy and Ginger.

I'm visiting F again. She is on hospice care now. It's so difficult to see her this way.

sj, I'm so sorry you're dealing with this, but very glad for F that she has you there. This is TCG's step-grandmother, right? I think it's wonderful that you're spending so much time with her now. It's a gift to be able to be there with her, as hard as it is.

Segway office ankle breaking sounds like a Mad Men plot. With less blood, I guess. I suppose ankle breaking is better than getting run over by a lawnmower.

You might be able to golf again, at least.

Oh, Teppy I am feeling your pain. My gyn is awesome, but his office sucks. I've been trying to get a BCP refill for several days now, but there has been no answer at the office (phone just rings and rings). I finally try to get to the "on call" physician, figuring he can authorize a refill, only to find out that the office is on a retreat and aren't taking prescription calls. ARGH.

"on call"

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Seemingly, "on call" doesn't always mean "will answer the call".

Steph I feel your insurance rage.

Last year, when my company changed insurance companies, they "lost" me for almost two months. Everyone else* got their cards and got coverage; when I called to ask where mine was, they said they didn't show any record of me being coverd.

• Except for the one other older woman on staff.

I'm trying very hard to be zen about this and tell myself that it will all work out (because it most likely will), but the clock is ticking and I need to get this done before the end of the month, and I just can't be chill when I'm running out of time and getting it done before the end of the month is the difference between $50 and $1,000.