Monday Bitch Fest 12/19

stashattack · December 2022

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stashattack · December 2022

My stupid pressure cooker from pampered chef wasn't holding pressure today. Idk wtf is going on with it but I had to switch gears to stop top cooking after 4 attempts of trying to make it pressurize. Dinner still turned out great but took twice as long as it should have. I guess I have a very large slow cooker to go with my medium sized one 🤬

emeraldcity603 · December 2022

@stashattack doesn’t pampered chef have a good warranty? I bet if you contact them they will try to get the issue resolved.

As for me, I tried to pick up my progesterone but because my insurance won’t cover it the pharmacist just ignored it due to the cost. It will be $250 with what was ordered. If the doctor calls it in requesting it in a compound it will only be $60. I contacted the office to ask for the prescription to be sent in as a compound. They sent a message back asking for my insurance information. No progesterone is covered. So why would they even need it? I’m anxious to start this medication and I’m very frustrated they are dragging their feet on this issue. DH said to just buy it but I don’t want to spend $250 when we could get the same thing for $60.

ki1244 · December 2022

@emeraldcity603 insurance billing is THE WORST. My dad just retired from 40+ years as a doctor and insurance and bureaucracy and paperwork interfering with patient care was a big reason why. Do you need it? Does your doctor agree? Then that should be the end of it. The runaround is so infuriating.

Mine for today: my daughter had four ER visits this fall, all breathing related. We finally got in with a specialist and it seems to be managed a bit better now (being treated as asthma) but now all the bills are coming due. I thought I'd been on top of it, but was getting a statement every two weeks from the children's hospital we took her to for three of those visits. Come to find out, they have two accounts set up for us -- same address, same patient, but they put one in my name and one in my husband's. I think/hope it's all being claimed correctly for insurance but I got into my daughter's information on our insurance page and some of the visits aren't there, so I don't know if they just haven't been submitted or if they were submitted incorrectly. But we're awfully close to our max OOP number for her, so now I get to call the hospital, get our accounts merged, then call insurance and check into whether all the claims were made on the right person, and then call their patient advocate center because we had to take an ambulance from one hospital to another at one point and they charged $200 more than the negotiated insurance price (which was all a huge racket anyway, they literally did nothing in the ambulance but drive with no lights or siren or anything so we could have just as easily driven her ourselves and saved $1200) and OH BY THE WAY TOMORROW WE'RE GETTING HIT BY A BLIZZARD so instead of my daughter going to my parents' house like we had planned (which would have given me several free hours), she'll be home all day so I get to cram all that (plus some gift wrapping) in during the nap she's increasingly less interested in taking.

End of speech.

stashattack · December 2022

@ki1244 stay warm today!! Insurance is such crap here

ceclarlinetlo · December 2022

Oh I could complain about insurance allllll day long. My second son surprised us at birth with a life-long, very expensive, chronic condition. Before modern treatment was available the life expectancy was 11. Now a days we have access to treatments that give him incredible quality of life and insurance is constantly causing stress over it.

gingermama29 · December 2022

I got hit with a nasty head cold overnight. Honestly I’m amazed I didn’t get sick sooner, working in an elementary school. The kids have been so germy and terrible about covering mouths.

stashattack · December 2022

@gingermama29 oh no!!! Feel better 🥰

emeraldcity603 · December 2022

@gingermama29 within the last month we have had RSV and the Flu. The other virus making it’s way around is COVID. It’s only a matter of time before we get it again. We have zero social events between now and Christmas so I’m hoping we can keep from getting sick again between now and then. It’s like a revolving door.

@ki1244 that sounds like a huge mess. I have had to make phone calls like that before about charges we were being billed for. It was ridiculous and wasted a lot of my time.

justyouraveragemama · December 2022

We are a two car household but one is a manual and I can’t drive a manual and the other is our truck. Well we’re in the middle of a snowstorm so I told my SO to take the truck to work today. Well now I want to have Kraft Mac n cheese for dinner with broccoli so I’m going to have to walk to the store in the blizzard. It’s really not far like I can see the store from my house but I don’t want to walk.

stashattack · December 2022

@justyouraveragemama ugh noooo. Rude!!

justyouraveragemama · December 2022

@stashattack I would just ask him to stop on the way home but I’ve already asked him to make some other stops and I feel bad😂

emeraldcity603 · December 2022

I finally got the right prescription called in and then I called the pharmacy to make sure I could pick it up today. I was told it wouldn’t be ready until tomorrow. I said that’s not going to work. I have been waiting for almost a week to start this prescription and I really need it today. I even told her it’s for my pregnancy. The lady did not care. She said to call back after 2 to get a status update. I asked to speak to the office manager. She said she was the manager. So I asked to speak to her manager. She put me on hold and after all of that when she got back on the line she told me I could pick it up at 5. Why did I have to go through all that to get a prescription filled. This was ridiculous and I’m beyond livid. I wanted to start this prescription last Friday and now it’s Wednesday. That is absolutely ridiculous.

ceclarlinetlo · December 2022

@emeraldcity603 geez. I’m sorry it took so much effort to get this prescription. I hope having it gives you some peace of mind.

stashattack · December 2022

@emeraldcity603 ugh that's awful. I really hate our medical system in the US. DH had a h if e discussion over how bad our system is this morning for over an hour.

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