Oh, Lord! Talk about the day from insurance 773H (did I do that right?) Anyway, I have been on the phone, almost all day. It is 3:25, and I started at about 9:15 this morning! I took about 1/2 hour out for lunch, but was pretty much on it the rest of the time.

I talked to the Oncology co-ordinator from the hospital 3 or 4 times, the nurse from the Breast Center twice, the insurance company 4 times, the state administration program for the insurance 3 times.

And of course, for each phone call, you have a routine of push this and listen to that, and select this, and read this, and tell us that, then wait with music, then tell them more, then get transfered to someone else, then have them tell you something stupid, and make them go check with their supervisor, then get transfered again, then get a different number for the other place that you already talked to twice, just to hear the same thing the other place told you that you know is wrong and try to get them to figure out what you are trying to say!

Then decide to go jump in front of a car because THEN it would be a danged emergency and they HAVE to take care of you!!! By the time I figure out who I can go see the cancer will have eaten it’s way from my boob to my brain!

Well, I just had a little interruption, it was good, and I’m back now. One of our pastors just stopped in to visit a little and to pray with me. He was the youth pastor when our 2nd son, Eric, was a teenager and then he ended up helping with the youth thru his early young adult years and they became very good friends. So, he’s always been more than just one of the pastors to our family. It was good to visit with him. And, as you can tell, emotionally soothing

I guess I’ll just leave the insurance mess up to the woman that’s so confident over at the hospital. She’s just sure that the DRs there are all covered because they all take medicare, even tho that has no bearing on their participation in the state program. The confusion comes in the fact that one of the things the state has done to promote this to the health care providers is to tell them that the payments will be at medicare rates, which has this woman convinced that because the DRs there at the hopital participate in the medicare program with Anthem, they are covered in the Anthem state program. Doesn’t happen to be true, according to both the state and Anthem who I talked to on many levels today, but I guess the hoptital can eat the bills if she’s dead wrong, right?

It looks at this point, like this coming Wednesday, I will be meeting with the oncologist, the surgeon, and the radiologist, along with the oncology health coordinator to decide what need to be done. It’s the first step and hopefully I’ll know something when I get done there, even if it’s just what the next test will be! hahahaha

So, for now, I’m going to put this issue on the back burner, and leave it alone, since there’s nothing more that can be done until then. I’m just gonna do my best to carry on as if everything is fine and let it be. Nothing productive can come from doing anything else, so we will just deal with it next week! I’m gonna go enter some more books into my database! Brought home half a truckload last week, and only have them half sorted out, and only one box entered! Lots of work to keep me occupied, plus I have a cookbook to finish! Good thing I have work to do

Hugs to all of you, and thanks sooo very much for being here all of you! There are so many of you that have written here and sent PMs that I just feel so very cared for and very blessed to have so many friends! Thanks again for just being yourselves