Long, strange day

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Saw an Aunt I haven't seen in over five years. My Grandma gave me $500 because "You can't take it with you" (which was a godsend because I was starting to think I was going to have to resort to gluing macaroni to soup cans and giving everybody a kindergarten pencil holder for Christmas). Watched my Cousin get married to a really sweet girl (I never thought he would work up the nerve). And when I got home I had a bill in the mailbox for $2000, for a bone graft stimulator (we were told it was covered by the ins.) from my Wife's neck surgery last Feb. I don't know whether I should laugh or cry.

Frank
 
Let the bill wait until next year.
thats Christmas money!

Today I was thinking how blessed I was, how lucky.
Then someone played "stairway to heaven" and i started thinking about jeff thompson and how much i wanted to go back in time and kill that crazy assmonkey that shot him.

The word bittersweet is terribly inadequate for its intended purpose. No one word could ever convey how sweet the sweetness can be, nor how awful the bitter can be.

Today I went to a 5 hour shuriken training camp.
I managed to figure out how to throw those things at 24 feet, which is a miracle for me.
That was good.

When I got home, some 14 year old japanese boys were playing "spear your buddy" with 9 foot long pieces of rebar and one of them found out that it actually works...hit his friend in the eye socket with his rebar spear. He died in the hospital.
 
DannyinJapan said:
When I got home, some 14 year old japanese boys were playing "spear your buddy" with 9 foot long pieces of rebar and one of them found out that it actually works...hit his friend in the eye socket with his rebar spear. He died in the hospital.
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*rubs eyes* and looks again...

I still can't help but think that Japanese kids are these bright little hard-working kids that never misbehave or do anything irresponsible. This despite seeing Japanese adults do idiotic things on that game show that's on cable over here now. Just goes to show how deeply stereotypes become ingrained, I guess...

I can remember sword fighting with pieces of rebar when I was a kid, though it was american kid swordfighting of the kind most recently emulated by Astrodada :). In other words, it was 'clank! clank!' rather than parry and thrust.
 
SASSAS said:
I can remember sword fighting with pieces of rebar when I was a kid, though it was american kid swordfighting of the kind most recently emulated by Astrodada :). In other words, it was 'clank! clank!' rather than parry and thrust.
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As long as there was no edge-to-edge contact, it's nothing to worry about. ;)
 
Call your insurance company first thing Monday morning. Remind them of their earlier response. Do you have any documentation? If worse comes to worse, then reason out an installment plan with them, negotiate low installments. They don't always have people who will work with them, and they will probably be amicable, especially if they are told that there is no other way to pay it.
Hospitals, insurance companies and the like are dissappointing. A hospital will not blink an eye at bankrupting you and taking everything that you have. It's a business for most of them, with a few exceptions.
 
You can legally send them 10 bucks a month forever. There is little they can do about it.



munk
 
One thing . Just because people ask for money doesn,t mean its theirs . Sometimes companies will ask just in the expectation you will give in . I don,t know what resources are available to you as far as legal advice is concerned . It would not hurt to ask if they are legally entitled to the money . Maybe a compromise could be reached ?
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I was just tired and rambling. I might have documentation somewhere, if I can find it after 8-9 months. If we have to pay it that will suck, to put it mildly. Oh well, such is life.

I still can't believe my Cousin got married. He once said his two greatest fears were snakes and marriage. I'm glad he didn't let this one get away. Sweet, down to earth, pretty. And patient, she waited 8yrs for him to propose. Here's to Chris & Karen:thumbup:

Frank
 
Frank resubmit the claim and then resubmit it again over and over until the bastards relent. It has worked for me in the past when the dayumed insurance company was trying to extort me.
I don't know if Dr. Gaede used the stimulator on this current fusion but I imagine he did as he always has in the past.
The insurance company always honored the claim in the end.
The bone graft stimulators aren't experimental and should be covered in any event.
 
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