One of Those Days
4:12 AM: Sally wakes us up vomiting large amounts of blood all over the bed
4:51 AM: I try to go back to sleep but abandon the idea at 5:25 and got in the shower
6:10 AM: Arrive at work and find my new cube is not to my liking. It's fine and all but the location on the floor bugs me.
8:00 AM: Paid close to $10,000 to settle the medical bills from the pneumonia I had in 2005 (I had insurance but they claimed this was a pre-existing condition so they sued me. This was a settlement for quite a bit less than they had originally wanted).
11:30 AM: Go to Fred Meyer to get some headphones for work and take out $100 cash back at the self serve register to pay a friend back for concert tickets. I walked off without the cash.
1:31 PM: I write this post.
Nothing really that unusual, but for some reason, I have this nagging anxiety that I cannot pin to anything. I just feel really uneasy. About everything.
Reminds me of a line from Keane's Everybody's Changing:
So little time
Try to understand that I'm
Trying to make a move to stay in the game
I try to stay awake and remember my name
But everybody's changing
And I don't feel the same
This too shall pass, however.
Updates will be slow as the usual fall storms bring power outages to Fall City once again. I also had some problems upgrading my LAN to gigabit ethernet (100 mbps wasn't cutting it anymore- seriously) which required me to do some significant recabling and the installation of two new switches and one router.
November 13th, 2006 - 22:53
omg what a horrible day. And I can’t believe your insurance did that. $10k for pneumonia seems kind of extreme to me. What a scam!
November 14th, 2006 - 07:04
Eh, actually, it was considerably more than that. I probably went to the doctor’s 4 times, 2 visits to Swedish for chest x-rays and quite a bit of antibiotics and breathing contraptions. The health insurance company originally paid the claims but then “determined” that what I had was a pre-existing condition (i.e. I had contracted the virus while under a different insurance plan), so I ended up paying full retail for the services, interest and late fees. So I feel pretty lucky to have gotten out of this for what I paid and have learned that it’s almost never beneficial to use your health insurance for any little thing.