Well crap. Just heard from my dad that his wife's cousin A passed away last night. She has been dealing with a brand of dementia and debilitation. I'm not sure of the actual diagnosis, but it has been pretty rough on the whole family for at least a couple of years (time is rough to estimate since I don't live out there anymore). When I was in SF in January, her family was telling the rest of the family that if they wanted to visit, they should come out as soon as possible. It broke my heart. But saw her at the 100th birthday party we attended in March. She was having a "good day" and I was overjoyed to see her even if she didn't quite remember me, though she was happy to babble with me.
She was such a vivacious woman, maybe in her 50s? I'm heart broken all over again. I know it is a double sided thing. On one hand, she just died, but on the other hand, she has really been gone for a long time already. Just sucks.
You can only have insurance if you never ever use it.
Suzi, that's rough.
Yeah, god forbid you use your fucking insurance.
Tim is kind of the WORST. He gets a giant case of the guilties for using his insurance. And we've hit the deductible [note to self: see how that affects what I pay the therapist] because of how many lab tests and x-rays and whatnot he's had this year, which made him feel even MORE guilty. He seriously feels bad about using insurance.
And every time, I remind him that insurance works the way it does because of all the healthy people. AND that insurance companies are making large profits.
And then I'm obligated to say "Thank god we never had kids, because using THAT much insurance would have killed you!"
A guy that I went to school with -- we were in school together from kindergarten through the end of high school -- just died. I'm a little bit in shock.
The correct response to meeting your deductible is to spend the rest of the year madly getting all of the doctor's appointments and tests you need out of the way.
I'm sorry, Hil and Suzi. I curse wearily in 2016's direction.
Damn, Hil. I'm sorry. That's rough, too.
The correct response to meeting your deductible is to spend the rest of the year madly getting all of the doctor's appointments and tests you need out of the way.
Right? I should go get my cholesterol tested!
Where would discussion for the tv show Pitch go?
The correct response to meeting your deductible is to spend the rest of the year madly getting all of the doctor's appointments and tests you need out of the way.
Time for that MRI you've been looking at in the showroom window!
