Cancer Survivor, writing about Health and Fitness as you age

Every now and again, I get caught up in life and don't get around to updating my blog, but mostly my life is so boring I haven't had any recent stories to post out! I thought I'd just give a quick update on my most recent reconstruction shenanigans. I present exhibit 1 - the medical charge. This is for a 1-hour surgery that was done with local anaesthesia, that is, no general and no "light" twilight zone drugs either. Sooo I've blogged before about medical costs here , but it was shocking even to me, that the hospital would charge my insurance $9,000 for a 1-hour procedure. This excludes the doctors fees. All I can say is, pray you don't get sick without insurance or have to go to the hospital, even for an hour apparently. Which brings me to my dad's recent visit. My dad stayed with us from November to April. We have no health insurance for him and he was 84 and turned 85. Any number of things could have gone haywire at any time and bankrupte...

With so much chaos in the financial sector right now, I suppose I could be writing about something more important, but I find that that situation is maddening, depressing and worrying enough that I don't need to burden myself right at this minute with thoughts about it. Instead, I'll stick to more mundane topics - like my domestic projects. So this isn't about remodeling the bathroom or redoing the kitchen cupboards, my latest domestic project is wrangling with our health insurer. I had finally gotten them to waive our wait-period and was completing some new patient forms when I came to the section for putting the claims mailing address. I pulled out my little insurance card and what do you know? It wasn't on there. So I looked that little thing over maybe four times, and my doing so didn't make the address appear. I was infuriated. Whoever heard of not having that information on the insurance card you are supposed to carry around?! I called customer service ...