I hate Blue Shield.  Haaaaaaaaate ( Read more... )

So I came home to a letter saying that my doctor's office with Cedars is no longer working with my insurance company. Blue Shield isn't paying enough to cover their costs, so they've dropped them. Fabulous.

Nurse Dingbat aside, the care we've gotten at Cedars has been pretty good. Still, if they're not working with our insurance any more, ( Read more... )

I stole the tricep machine from some dude at the gym today. Oops. To be fair, I was sitting across from it at the row machine, and no one touched it for the entire time I was doing my thing. I moved the towel off the weight stack and fixed the weights, and this dude wanders over ( Read more... )

Dentist: I don’t know why people are so afraid of the dentist.
Me: Because you’ve got sharp pointy things aimed at my gums and I can’t see what you’re doing down there? No offense, man.

Not that I’m scared of the dentist, I’d just rather jump out of an airplane. Or hit my toe with a hammer. Today was the root scaling thing that I’ve been sort of ( Read more... )

"The benefits of moderate UV exposure outweigh *any* potential risk."

Say WHAT? So says Sarah Longwell, a representative of the Indoor Tanning Association.

"The dermatologists, the sunscreen and cosmetic industries have tried to say that somehow moderate tanning causes melanoma, which is just not true."

I can't believe it! Those dastardly ( Read more... )

Too po' to buy health insurance, but too rich to qualify for Medi-cal? Don't wanna drag yourself to County and ask for medicine because you swear to god, all you've got is a stupid sinus infection that hurts really bad and would clear right up if someone would just give you some fucking antibiotics, unless you want them to have you walking around ( Read more... )