The Lost Month

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That's right, "Lost Month" not "last" month. For the first time in years I was drop dead sick. Aches, pains, barf and no food, the whole nine yards. I had to visit the Doctor twice. Now while I normally don't mind not going to work, but nearly four weeks of Maury was getting to be too much. I was starting to enjoy Steve Wilkos too. I watched a lot of BBC America. I missed food, but losing eight pounds was a strange side benefit.

If that wasn't enough I had to switch my Health Plan in the middle of all this. As of the first of July I hadn't gotten my new cards or information. I started bugging the contact person at work about it. "I'll email and check", "You're all signed up. Call and get your subscriber number". The card finally came. Wha? It says I'm in an HMO. I signed up for the PPO. Contacted Lady again. "Oh. We found that last week and corrected it". Hmmm...like when I contacted you the week before? Swiftly received new cards but the Blue Shield website is still in error (you are not active, we have no information). I finally contacted their Webdesk, "We'll fix it. Might take a week or two, check it later".

So after all the the fun experiences with Blue Shield (and they are pleasent enough on the phone), I had to get my RX benefits fixed too. RX is separate with this plan and administered by another company. I called them. I found out there is another Margaret Olson who works for the State of Alaska. That was the only one they could find. So off to contact the Lady again. "I contacted them. There was some sort of error. It's fixed now." Great! Now I can get some meds for the flu. Hazzah! I wonder if anyone else at work had this much trouble?

The positive of all this: I had two days I felt good enough to cast some dogs and the new mare. Maybe next month I'll feel like glazing.