August 21, 2005

• Library_Angel

  The Angel had a different type of blog, interesting to say the least.  Cool.  Click here to see the "list" blog.  Here's the list:

  
  Do this.    Come back and see what I write in my comments. 
  
  
  
  
  1. Reply with your name and I'll respond with something random about you.
  
  
  2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
  
  
  3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.
  
  
  4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
  
  
  5. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
  
  
  6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
  
  
  7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
  
  
  8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal.
  

  
  
  Here's the answers:

  Dave:
  
  When the weather's bad I think of you.
  
  Fighter - Xtina ((because you are a fighter))
  
  lime
  
  Wow... I think reading a comment you left on my site.
  
  Not an animal, but when I see a spinning skull I do think of you.
  
  Do sleeping pills work for you?
  

  
  I'd do something like that, but it might take me a year to reply.  LoL!  Okay, so go over and have a go at it.

  Ouch!

  If you broke the bone in the tip of your pinky, you could go to the
  emergency room of the hospital and get it x-ray'd, examined, fixed
  (tape & splint, maybe), and sent home with some pain killers and
  maybe an appointment with an orthopedist.  Your insurance would
  have no problem taking care of their part of the bill (reasonable and
  customary, of course).

  But break a tooth without hurting your jawbone or facial muscles and
  see what the insurance company wants to do.  Since it's your
  teeth, it must be cosmetic.  So, they won't pay anything, and it
  will have to go to special insurance for Dentists, if you have that
  portion.  Then it becomes a pain in the butt, which the insurance
  should pay for, right?

  I've done both.  I didn't go to the hospital for the finger
  because I knew what they would do, and I did it.  Stabilize! 
  I called the hospital for the tooth and they said they couldn't do
  anything.  Go to my Dentist.  I don't own a Dentist. 
  I didn't go to the hospital for the tooth and it became absessed (just
  good ol' infection).  Then came the pain, and the aches, and all
  that stuff.  After 2 months of easy pain (oxymoron?), I finally
  got an appointment with a Dentist, for which I had to wait another 2
  weeks.  By that time, the pain was so severe that I couldn't do
  anything but hold my jaw.  The Dentist spent 30 minutes doing
  x-rays and looking, but did nothing except for giving me 2
  prescriptions, antibiotic and pain killer.  It took about 5 days of
  both before the pain eased up.

  The point is that the insurance will
  take care of something very minor, the little finger, and deny
  something that is major, the tooth.  The pinky joint is necessary,
  but is it as necessary as a tooth used for chewing?  Come on!

  Combine all that with the normal migraines, and I've been a bear. 
  But a blessed bear that has a great hunni that takes care of me and
  cares for me.  So, guess where I've been for the last how ever
  many days!

  Now I get to go to an Oral Surgeon.  They will cut it out. 
  And here's another thing that really bothers me.  The Dentist
  office sets up an appointment with an Oral Surgeon that they know is
  not in the fantastic network for the poor dental insurance that I have
  (via my hunni or I would have none).  This Surgeon will charge $50
  for the consultation and then schedule the removal for the next day,
  which will cost around $180 (maybe more).  The insurance will only
  pay 50% of the reasonable and customary charge of $150.  So, I'll
  end up paying $125 or more.

  My hunni calls to find out who the insurance will pay and makes me an
  appointment for that one.  I canceled the other.  This one
  will look at the tooth and remove it the same day.  They charge
  around $120 (depending upon the pain killer or anesthesia).  I
  will have to pay $50, and may get back some of that since the insurance
  will pay the network Oral Surgeon 80% of the reasonable and customary.

  So, do the math and figure out where I'm going, duh!  What in the
  world is wrong with the Dentist office when they schedule me to pay
  more money out of pocket instead of trying to help me out there (and
  they are aware of my circumstances, you know, I'm a millionaire,
  gee).  I find out later that they knew all this stuff that I
  related above.  What are they doing?  Kickbacks?  Makes
  you go, "Hmmm....!"

  I'm happy......phtttt!  Monday is the day of the extraction. 
  Then I got to get something put in the space.  Since the insurance
  says that's cosmetic, they don't want to pay for anything.  The
  Dentist says it's necessary because other teeth will start moving and
  weaken the jawbone.  Go figure!  This has me definitely
  ticked off!  You probably can't tell, because I'm so calm and want
  to fillet, remove small pieces at a time, then boil in oil all the
  partners in this threesome called doctors, insurance, and drug
  companies.  I gues I can carve a tooth out of wood and wedge it in there.

  Rant

  We need to fire all insurance of every kind, go to the doctors and make
  bills that we can't pay, don't drive there so we can get gas prices
  back in control, get the generic drugs and not pay.... Of course,
  getting healthy and not going back would help too.  Gee! 
  They don't want us healthy.  Next, we go after the politicians,
  everyone of those low life maggots that are in bed with the doctors,
  insurance companies, and drug companies.  At this moment, I could
  do unspeakable things to them, hahaha!  In this state alone, we
  have elected sooooo many politicians that have owned insurance
  companies.  What is wrong with us?  If I cussed, this is
  where I would do it!

  Disclaimer: Ignore everything, the FogWalker has flipped!  The pain wins again.  I give up!
  

  Thesaurus-ize

  Append your wooden means of transportation to a celestial body.   Hitch your wagon to a star. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

  Un-thesaurus-ize

  04 August 2005: "The best proof of love is trust." Dr. Joyce Brothers

  The FogWalker returns again to the dark....darkness and sweet oblivion......

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