I'm super irritated at how difficult health care is to obtain. Since I had to move across the country so unexpectedly and now am unemployed for the rest of the year (by choice, I am giving myself time to find my footing and spend time with baby and my parents are able to help support us), I qualify for medical assistance. I applied the second I got home, the first week of January. I submitted proof of (no) income, etc. I still haven't heard whether my application has been approved.
I called the help line on the MA website yesterday and waited on hold for 30 min before someone answered. They then told me I had to call the local county office since they were handling the application. They gave me that number and I called it. That phone line closes at 3:30, it was 3:33.
So I called today and was on hold for 45 min and then the phone line hung up on me. Omg I was ready to hurt something. I'm going to try and find if there is a local office I can just go and talk to someone because this is ridiculous. I have already spent over $700 on copay since I don't have insurance and while I know that will eventually get reimbursed, I'm just fortunate that I have support of family to help me until that happens.
Post by rungirlrun on Feb 17, 2016 20:05:30 GMT -5
Sitting in CVS waiting on a prescription. They messed up so it's taking forever. DS is eating animal crackers bc I just don't care at this point. Just came from the grocery store, and someone threw garbage in the parking lot so I slipped and fell. I was carrying DS who was in the middle of a tantrum so there I was laying on the ground with a bloody arm with DS screaming. 2 nice ladies asked if we were ok at least. We are fine, but I'm ready for this day to be over.
I think the only thing Mh and I actually stuck to in the "I will never" category is yell in front of our daughter. I grew up in that sort of house and we made a lot of changes in how we spoke in general (we both have tempers) to avoid being those parents.
DH and I are yellers and I grew up in a house of yellers...my parents STILL freaking yell so our biggest WE WILL NEVER...is never yell in front of our kids. I'm glad to see someone in a similar situation be able to change habits and not yell in front of their kids. I'm hopeful we can stick to this, but I know it will be hard since we both have tempers.
It's very very hard. I think what helped was MH and I made a commitment to basically setting up a groundwork for how we wanted to handle things with DD when she arrived. We also discussed how we wanted to handle when we get mad/disagree. Luckily, we usually never scream at each other. However, I have been known to punch walls after talking to one of my parents. Sooooo. There's a learning curve. If you start now, it's easier when they get here.
More randoms: I just took a bath (read: I'm posting from the bath tub) and caught my reflection in the mirror. There is now no doubt my boobs have exploded because I just found ninja stretch marks under my boobs and apparently I grew a freeway system of veins overnight. My chest looks like a cross between Bane and Two-Face from the Val Kilmer era batman movies.
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