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I did a thing today!
Mar. 26th, 2020 03:14 amActually, I did a few things.
After I woke for the third time from dreaming about how various exes could have alternately broken up with me (from the way they did) I decided I didn't want to dream about that anymore and stayed up. This was the first time in 3-5 days I didn't wake up with a headache, tho, so yay! (?)
I poked at email on my tablet while collecting and eating breakfastish, culling kickstarter messages and triaging other things for desktop, till I realized the app on my tablet was showing them to me weirdly. At which point I started actively poking at the bills that I'd gathered into one place while I waited for my teakettle to boil and such. There's some collecting and sorting and recording that I did while...
I listened to my voicemail (gasp!). Someone from the mail-order specialty-pharmacy called back(1) and told me that my long-term anti-hive shot has a copay-relief program, and gave me the phone number to call to enroll, after which I should call them and give them the information.
So I did that, and enrolled, and vaguely listened to Terms and Conditions, which I no longer remember but I was listening closely enough to pick up that this can be retroactive for 120 days. When I had the person again, I confirmed that information. Now, toward the end of last year, I'd made my out-of-pocket expenses and wasn't paying for anything (yay?) so I've only been paying for the shot again since January.
I then called the M-O S-P and gave them the info, and told them about retroactive, and the person I was talking to kicked it up to the 'figure this out' staff. Woo!
I also texted my financial guy about how much money is currently in the brokerage account. He called back, and we discussed moving money so I can pay bills. He will move money into it so I can pay bills for a couple of months, and also move some money into the grocery-and-eat-out-and-copays account, which is VERY significantly down, because I should have had disability all-fucking-ready goddammit.
And then I wrote out checks for all the bills currently in hand, total of 9. (Still waiting for 2, but most of the rest have first-of-month due-dates.)
I had stew for dinner (THank you, Eldest!) and spent the rest of the night poking at WaPo and email instead of doing something relaxing. Which has also made my thumb hurt, combined with writing out checks. *sigh* My thumb hurts enough now that hitting the spacebar is being a problem, so I'm gonna get off the desktop and either read a book or possibly poke at random games on my phone.
(1) Yesterday, I decided to answer an unexpected phone call from the Mail Order Specialty Pharmacy that I am forced to use because my insurance won't pay for some drugs any other way. This one being $300-$500 per shot (depending on the exact dose), I growl but succumb. They wanted to schedule the next delivery of the shot to my doctor, which isn't due for 3+ weeks but whatevs. I didn't get the robot phone call till 7pm or so, and when it asked if I wanted to order it then, I said sure. I was sort of bemused by the actual person who came on the line, who was clearly, desperately, following a script, including telling me they were going to call my doctor to schedule the delivery, could I please hold on, and were then somewhat flustered when I told them it was 7pm and the doctor was not there. They called anyway, and wow, the doctor wasn't there! So today I got a callback before I woke up, informing me they'd confirmed the delivery, and about the copay-relief program. Yay! I will only pay $5 now instead of $70. That's a sushi take-out for 3!
After I woke for the third time from dreaming about how various exes could have alternately broken up with me (from the way they did) I decided I didn't want to dream about that anymore and stayed up. This was the first time in 3-5 days I didn't wake up with a headache, tho, so yay! (?)
I poked at email on my tablet while collecting and eating breakfastish, culling kickstarter messages and triaging other things for desktop, till I realized the app on my tablet was showing them to me weirdly. At which point I started actively poking at the bills that I'd gathered into one place while I waited for my teakettle to boil and such. There's some collecting and sorting and recording that I did while...
I listened to my voicemail (gasp!). Someone from the mail-order specialty-pharmacy called back(1) and told me that my long-term anti-hive shot has a copay-relief program, and gave me the phone number to call to enroll, after which I should call them and give them the information.
So I did that, and enrolled, and vaguely listened to Terms and Conditions, which I no longer remember but I was listening closely enough to pick up that this can be retroactive for 120 days. When I had the person again, I confirmed that information. Now, toward the end of last year, I'd made my out-of-pocket expenses and wasn't paying for anything (yay?) so I've only been paying for the shot again since January.
I then called the M-O S-P and gave them the info, and told them about retroactive, and the person I was talking to kicked it up to the 'figure this out' staff. Woo!
I also texted my financial guy about how much money is currently in the brokerage account. He called back, and we discussed moving money so I can pay bills. He will move money into it so I can pay bills for a couple of months, and also move some money into the grocery-and-eat-out-and-copays account, which is VERY significantly down, because I should have had disability all-fucking-ready goddammit.
And then I wrote out checks for all the bills currently in hand, total of 9. (Still waiting for 2, but most of the rest have first-of-month due-dates.)
I had stew for dinner (THank you, Eldest!) and spent the rest of the night poking at WaPo and email instead of doing something relaxing. Which has also made my thumb hurt, combined with writing out checks. *sigh* My thumb hurts enough now that hitting the spacebar is being a problem, so I'm gonna get off the desktop and either read a book or possibly poke at random games on my phone.
(1) Yesterday, I decided to answer an unexpected phone call from the Mail Order Specialty Pharmacy that I am forced to use because my insurance won't pay for some drugs any other way. This one being $300-$500 per shot (depending on the exact dose), I growl but succumb. They wanted to schedule the next delivery of the shot to my doctor, which isn't due for 3+ weeks but whatevs. I didn't get the robot phone call till 7pm or so, and when it asked if I wanted to order it then, I said sure. I was sort of bemused by the actual person who came on the line, who was clearly, desperately, following a script, including telling me they were going to call my doctor to schedule the delivery, could I please hold on, and were then somewhat flustered when I told them it was 7pm and the doctor was not there. They called anyway, and wow, the doctor wasn't there! So today I got a callback before I woke up, informing me they'd confirmed the delivery, and about the copay-relief program. Yay! I will only pay $5 now instead of $70. That's a sushi take-out for 3!
