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Ok,  yes I am human and I was ready for a fight when I was sent to collection and disengaged from my OB/GYNE.  Today i spoke to their office and I guess it was a mix up. I really did send my $2.00 payment late so they have agreed to keep me as a patient. But I guess it still really bugs me that a doctor’s office is so ready to drop a patient.  When I worked for the doctor’s office you really had to do something bad or non compliance to be dropped. The doctor honestly cared about our patients and any disengaging (or dumping patients) had to be approved by him only and 9 times out of 10 he never approved that. In fact in 10 years there was only one patient that he ever disengaged from and she was totally non compliant and was basically killing herself by not taking care of her disease and other reasons. I guess this just is another example of how healthcare has changed. Healthcare was never about money when I worked at the doctor’s office, I mean yes he did charge and if you could only pay $5.00 and month, that’s what he accepted.  But now with malpractice insurance and everything else I guess they cannot have that attitude. It is a terrible shame.  People that need healthcare cannot afford it and the ones that can don’t.

Not only sent to collection but today I get a certified letter disengaging me from their practice.  Yes the $2.00 was paid and yes the check had cleared the bank.  Unbelievable.  It all started with my miscarriage. I went for follow up the day after my miscarriage and I obviously was discombobulated that day and I really don’t remember if I had paid my $2.00 copay or not. I always pay before I go in to see the doctor. So ok I get a bill in the mail but I am going in for follow up the following month less than two weeks away. I’ll pay it then. Well I did not go in on that day, I had to cancel.  So I get a bill in August and I set it aside because I had rescheduled my appointment and was going in the office. Then they canceled the appointment for an emergency. Fine , no problem. So I send my payment on September 1, 2008 as I didn’t reschedule my appointment until December. Then my check is returned in the mail as undeliverable. No other explanation so I resend the check, now it’s October 1. I assume all is well. Then I get a collection notice, for $2.00. Well what the heck, I figure that the check and collection notice crossed in the mail. Then today I get the certified letter. So I called the office and talk to the office manager who was extremely nice. Said that it was a billing issue, which is probably why she was so nice not her problem. So I give her the check number and I had also received my bank statement and  it shows the check cleared.  If he wasn’t the only doctor out here who takes my insurance, I would say screw it. But I happen to like the doctor. But now I wonder if the doctor is so hard up for my $2.00 what the heck is going on. Don’t get me wrong, I worked in a Doctor’s office for 10 years I understand the aggravation it is trying to get people to pay their bills but I think we should be alittle compassionate. So I guess I need to find another doctor as I really don’t want to be grateful to an office that is “allowing me” to stay with their practice. Not for $2.00. I’m sure another doctor’s office will want my copay of $2.00.

I have various knick knacks suggesting this: Believe.  I have always been the one to believe in fate, fairies, magic. But I have just realized today that I really don’t believe. I have no faith whatsoever.  Oh I try to pretend I do. I try to be positive to other people and tell them to have faith not only in God but karma and people. Now I most certainly believe in God. please don’t get me wrong, but I do not have the faith that He takes care of everything, I think he gives us the tools to do the job ourselves.  I sure do envy the people that have that unshakable faith. To be able to say God will take care of it.  As far as Karma I think what goes around comes around. But I think we cause the karma to happen so, in essence, we cause our own karma. If that makes sense.  And Magic well is pretty much the same as karma. I’m not sure when I became so jaded. and it really stinks!

Now there is a hard thing to do. I’m looking in the phonebook and there are tons of pediatricians in the area. Which hospital do I want to go to? Hmm I don’t know. There used to be only one hospital I would go to, I always went there even though it was further away however they seem to have become more about money and less about people. But they are one of the top Lucent Hospitals, whoever Lucent is and why they are judging hospitals I’ll never know. Ah but I digress, or maybe a wasting time from finding a new doctor for my daughter who is now completely afraid of doctor’s after her encounter with the flu shot nurse from hell. I wonder can I just set up interviews with like 6 doctors?  Yes ok I am hallucinating. I used to work for a doctor and can totally vouch for the fact he barely had time to pee. Now he is an excellent doctor but doesn’t see kids. He was so busy we would answer the phones while eating lunch.  He did not like to turn anyone away. He worked to help people. Maybe I can call him and get a suggestion.  There’s a thought….

I take my two and half year old daughter into her doctor’s office for her flu shot last year they billed the insurance and this year you have to pay. Ok no big deal give me the little superbill thingy so I can be reimbursed from the insurance. Here’s where we run into complications. This woman hands me the superbill to fill out myself. Nice. I worked for a physician’s office for ten years and I never would hand a patient their own bill to fill out. But, ok whatever.  So we finally we get into the room and the nurse grabs my arm and pulls me down on my daughter, like violently so I snap up and say “what the @$#@ are you doing?” Now, I am not the type of person to snap on someone let alone swear at them but she dug her fingers into my arm and pulled me down, not to mention scare the crap out of my daughter.  We will definitely be filing a complaint and finding a new doctor’s office.

My daughter and I were shopping recently and we came across some dolls that looked like little hookers.  Now I am not that old, really but these dolls kinda gave me a shudder. No wonder our kids are dressing the way they do.  I see these tweens wearing such short skirts, tight tops and enough make up for a clown and I think where are the parents?  I had to get to high school and put on eyeliner.  These kids are just walking around like that. Just this summer I saw a girl who couldn’t have been 12-13 years old walking down our street which is very busy and a guy leaned out of his car and yelled “hey put some clothes on!”  But he could have just as easily picked her up.  These girls should be taught to respect their bodies and their selves instead of flaunting everything god gave you.  Sometimes a little mystery goes alot further than showing everything at once. Well my daughter won’t be playing with little hooker dolls and definitely not dressing like one. One can only hope….

I’m planning a baby shower for my soon to be daughter in law. She’s adorable and I love her. My son is lucky whether he knows it or not.  At present she lives with her parents and he is living with his cousin. They are both working their fannies off to get an apartment and a car before the BIG day, which is December 12(give or take). My son has been thru hell and back, mostly from bad decisions.  He is on the right road now and will hopefully stay on that road. My son is 20 and his girlfriend is 19, so very very young. Although she is the same age I was when I had my son. That seems like a lifetime ago.  It is odd how things turn out. My dear soon to be daughter in law was pregnant and was told she had a miscarriage in March. Even confirmed by blood work. I was also pregnant and had a miscarriage on Memorial Day. They found out she didn’t have a miscarriage, it was a mix up in blood work (that was done at the end of April). This baby they thought they lost is a true blessing and obviously meant to be.  My baby, I guess, God wasn’t ready to let go yet, I was due on December 24. December will be a hard and sad month for me but one thing will brighten it up my grandchild.

Yep, worried seems to be the state of mind for many people including me.  Will I be able to pay my bills?  Will I have enough gas to last another week? Will I get paid next Friday? Or even have a job? Will I ever get my daughter potty trained?  And these questions flew right into my mind in the last 30 seconds.  Imagine a whole days worth of worried questions.  Kinda wish the brain would take a silent break. I heard President Bush talk alittle while ago and during his reassuring speech (and I am being extremely sarcastic) I realized a couple of things. Number 1, he has no clue and is just yapping in his $1000.00 suit and Number 2 I voted for the idiot.  Can you really reassure people that they are going to be “ok” and that the government is going to pull us out of it?  Government and ok not usually 2 two words I put in the same sentence. These are the people who pay $800.00 for a plunger.  Do I have any idea how to rescue the stock market? Nope not one.  To me the stock market is like a slot machine, you put money in, pull the lever and pray for 3 matching pieces of fruit. And I don’t play the slots because I watch people putting their money in and pulling, over and over again.  And nothing comes out. I do not have that kind of money to “play” with.  Hmmm does the government have that kind of money to “play” with?  Do we?

I love this time of the day. I have a 2 year old and I babysit a 4 year old and everyday we have storytime.  The stories vary, right now they are mostly about Halloween.  I do throw in alot of “showing emotions” books too along with educational ABC’s and 123 books. I am an avid reader. I get lost in my books. I solve crimes in my books and I live someone else’s life in my books. Not that my life is truly dull and I need to run away from it….ok maybe sometimes I do.  I like to live someone else’s life for 354 pages and then return to my own.  My dear hubby thinks I am wasting time reading so much, but then hey I could hang out in bars and such with the time that I read.  I probably over dramatize the children’s books especially when it looks like one of the kids is getting bored.  I believe that reading is so important and when the 4 year old’s parents ask me about different things he say and I explain that it is from this book or that one I think they like that.  Well at least I hope so. Ooh I have 15 minutes left before nap time is over I can get a few more pages of my most recent book done. Happy reading!

Not of the heavenly sort, garage sale signs and  house for sale signs.  Ok, first off, I am not anti garage sales or anything but when did it become acceptable to put an advertisement sign in someone’s yard. I live on a corner lot and there is a busy street in front of my house but this does not make it right to put your sign in my yard. I would never dream of driving up to someone’s home and putting an advertisement in the front yard. And then you get mad because I take the signs down.  Last year I had a lady actually come up to my front door angry because her sign was missing and she had spent $12.00 on it. I tried to be nice I really did. But the smart alec always erupts.. I said “my taxes were about $5,000 last year, if you pay my taxes I will consider your sign.”  Needless to say she left in a huff.  My husband works so hard to make sure the grass is cut and the yard is fertilized not to become an advertisement spot.  It wouldn’t really be bad if someone came to my door and asked if they can put a sign in the yard, but no they drive onto my grass and traipse thru my yard to place their sign.  Common courtesy is all I am asking for.