Well Yesterday afternoon/evening I got a call from the hospital where I am getting my probe performed, the Foundation Surgery Center of Oklahoma. The girl was nice but an airhead and asked “Would you like to pay for your procedure via check or credit card?” I asked how much it was and she quickly replies “One thousand Dollars.” Kiss my shiny ass a grand for me to go through an uncomfortable anal probe!!!!!!!!!! I’m not in a good mood. And I have insurance not to mention a flexible spending account. So I explain I get reimbursed for my medical procedures through my FSA and I need her to bill me so the insurance can pay their part and then I can request funds from my FSA and mail them a check.
Apparently this just will not do. I talk to management. They also say that this won’t work they need money before my probe. I am at this point a very unhappy camper. I ask to escalate it further and they said they will call me back. I head home and call the sister. She explains the ins and outs and upside down that is our current medical industry when it comes to insurance and coverage. She also tells me that I should give the doctors office a call tomorrow to find out what is really going on.
So I talk with Kristie the head assistant/nurse/whatever up at Dr. Kumar’s office and explain the situation. I feel much better now. After apologizing hand over fist she explained that apparently the Foundation Surgery Center of Oklahoma really likes to charge people first for everything. Even through most of Dr. Kumar’s patients have everything go through the insurance company and then pay her for the work that was done to make sure all of the numbers are correct. I was also informed if they call asking for more money to have them call over to Kristie and she will get them informed and taken care of. Happily I don’t have to deal with that now when I am nervous enough as it is about having a multiple foot long tube shoved up my ass with a camera on it. I keep imaging in my head of the Camera getting lodged and stuck and ending up with a real life scene from the book Choke.
Now my only major decision is to go liquid or pills. I think I am going to follow both Radar and Cathy’s advice and go the route of the liquid even through it tastes horrid. The last thing I want is to have issues and then have to have all the invasiveness repeated.
Yes my brain is currently taking me on a fuck me hard cruise. Oh the fun.
On another note I got a call from Radar last night. Gary and I are going up to his wedding next Friday but the way all of the timing is setting up I think Gary, Cathy and Bill are going to have to go up ahead of me so that Gary can get to the rehearsal dinner on time and I will just have to come up a few hours behind them by myself. *sarcasm* Which driving alone for four hours is always a joyous event. */sarcasm*
Gary also did an amazing job yesterday fixing my shower head in thmaster bathroom at our place. It was low enough that I couldn’t even stand under it and I’m short at 5′6″. Not to mention it sprays hard enough to kick the shit out of you and turn all of your skin red. But he went and picked up a new set of channel locks and changed out the shower head so I can have my favorite rain one back. Today he is tackling fixing the master toilet so the water will stop running when you flush it and removing all of the child safety locks from the Kitchen so I quit hurting myself on it. Yes I have managed to smash my fingers multiple times in the doors to the cabinets because of the stupid child safety locks.
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