Dealing with Health Insurance

Everybody knows this is bad news. All health insurance companies suck. But nothing sucks quite as worse than Medi-Cal managed care. 

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Approved!

At 4:40 p.m. on Friday, I found out that IEHP overturned their denial for my out-of-network surgery and approved my appeal. Holy shit. I never thought the day would come.

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By Friday

Somehow or another, I was able to get my health insurance to expedite my appeal. I will now have an answer by Friday. I almost can’t believe it.

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Opening the Door

A few days back, I photoshopped pictures of myself and how I would look with different lines across my chest. I was trying to see if I could get used to the curved, inverted V-line thing, and Sinclair would probably do the best job at that, honestly.

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Dropping Out

Slowly, or not so slowly, all my potential doctors are dropping out of the race. I don’t know which gorilla’s hands I’m going to be in the care of now, and it’s such an icky feeling. And when it will be? And where? I also don’t know how I’ll pay for it. Mana from the sky? Truthfully, I feel like I’m standing naked in the cold rain, and people are throwing rotten fruit at me.

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