I also wonder if this is why I now owe UCLA Medical Center $30,000?

That sounds likely. I'm so sorry you've entered a bureaucratic hell. Damn.

Fuck, Kat! What a nightmare! I am so sorry.

I'm afraid anything else I might have wanted to say is temporarily lost in an incoherent rage.

Also, for the record, please remember I have amazingly good PRIMARY insurance provided by my employer. So I still think the UCLA Med center stuff is a fuck up. And the people who told me I owed was my primary insurance and I need UCLA to put in the authorization for it.

Yes. This pretty much sucks and is the worst day.

On the upside, we got a Christmas tree and Grace had her trache capped all day, even playing kickball with her trach cap on!

Jesus christ, Kat. I don't even know where to start. I hope you can work something with your current-awesome-nurse, but IDEK. That's the smallest of it. I'm so sorry. I hate everything on your behalf. It's unconscionable.

There's a snarl in my brother's house buying. Looks like they won't be homeowners by xmas. Not their fault, a technicality with the title that I cannot figure out how USAA lef it get this far in the process before noticing.

The headache I had all day? Was not the dental work. Which I learned 158 times tonight, as my sinuses screamed every time I did a turn and went more than a foot underwater.

I put together my new bookcase. Which was missing parts and had broken fasteners. Clearly why I got such a deal, cause while the wood wasn't damaged, clearly DROPPED as bolts were sheared off. At least I am my father's daughter, so I had screws and ingenuity aplenty.

@@ a bit at FB people, specifically the fact that the two people who felt they needed to chime in with "you can so eat healthy for cheap!" are, to the best of my knowledge, far and away wealthier than most people I know.

They're not being offensive or anything. But still.

And holy crap Kat. I hope this is more easily resolved than it seems.

Oh my god, Kat. I'm so sorry.

But that's good news about Grace's trach cap!

Jesus fucking christ, Kat. What a mess.

Do you start the new job on Monday, Jesse?

Not til Wednesday, thank goodness. My coworker's party was nice and fun and good way to end the week. There were enough spouses there (and I think we all tried) that we didn't talk about work very much, which is always a good thing. They are such a nice group of people! Snif.

Y'all want some empowerment? Check out Idina Menzel singing the hell out of the new Disney movie, Frozen:

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Oh, Kat. I am enraged on your behalf.

I am so very tired and I have two more hours to be at work today. But at least I'm not out in the cold doing an nighttime TV shoot on the river walk like the crew of Betrayal.