Surgery bills are EXPENSIVE - Especially since I'm losing my job :P
It's been a while since I updated, and there's a ton of stuff I need to talk about.
My Surgery & the OUTRAGEOUSLY EXPENSIVE BILL! -
Well, I ended up having my gall bladder removed on Friday (December 16th) It all went well and I'm doing really well. It's nice to be able to eat something somewhat greasy and not have indigestion afterwards! :) The pissy thing is, I've got the bill for it, and it's over $700! EDIT: FUCKING A! I FINALLY received (I think) all my bills from the surgery and it turns out it's more like $1,600+ that's not covered by insurance! ARGH!
It REALLY sucks because remember last year when I had my endometrial oblation? and I was so worried about the cost? Well, the cool thing that I never told my LJ friends-list is that my mom was REALLY nice and knew I was worried about the price of that, and she told me that she would give me the birthday present of paying for whatever insurance didn't pay for. The weird thing is that despite my careful planning and checking on stuff, THAT surgery only came up to like $70. I went into this surgery thinking that the amount not covered by insurance would be similar to that amount, and so I wasn't took worried about it. (plus the fact that it was a semi-emergency surgery and I didn't want to have another extremely painful gall bladder attack, so I didn't have much TIME to worry about it.)
Getting the bills for this huge amount just blind-sided me. ARGH. I don't know how I'm going to pay for it. I am filling out paperwork for the hospital and the collection agency both, trying to get the amount reduced. We will see how it goes :(
MY JOB IS GOING BYE-BYE! OH NOES!
AND, just to ADD to my money woes, THIS happens: Remember this entry, where I was talking about my fear of getting a new job? Well, I guess my job has forced that decision on me. I came into my job on Friday, January 13th. It was the day before I was going to be gone for a week on my trip to North Carolina. My boss, Mark, called me into his office. He informed me that it has been decided that, because I don't make enough profit for the store, my position is going to be eliminated. My last day of work is planned to be April 1st.
O_O I still am not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I'm actually HAPPY in a way. This will push me to get a job that pays better. Also, they've given me enough time to actually search for a job, so that's good I guess. On the other hand I'm ABSOLUTELY PETRIFIED. I am scared, nervous, terrified, and completely overwhelmed all at the same time. ARGH. It's confusing as all hell.
I am working with Spherion job placement agency (and on my own, applying for stuffs that I can find that looks plausible/interesting), and hopefully I will find a decent job soon. I heard back from Citibank. Apparently I'm "not eligible for re-hire". ARGH. That's fucking ANNOYING. Why couldn't they tell me that up front before interviewing me TWICE and wasting both of our time? ARGH!
Well, that's it for THIS entry. I still need to make another entry about my car being broken into and stuff stolen in December, and an entry recapping the AWESOME time I had in North Carolina with robina1984, jem0000000, & aussiegirl17 in January... gah, I'm behind on posting!
My Surgery & the OUTRAGEOUSLY EXPENSIVE BILL! -
Well, I ended up having my gall bladder removed on Friday (December 16th) It all went well and I'm doing really well. It's nice to be able to eat something somewhat greasy and not have indigestion afterwards! :) The pissy thing is, I've got the bill for it, and it's over $700! EDIT: FUCKING A! I FINALLY received (I think) all my bills from the surgery and it turns out it's more like $1,600+ that's not covered by insurance! ARGH!
It REALLY sucks because remember last year when I had my endometrial oblation? and I was so worried about the cost? Well, the cool thing that I never told my LJ friends-list is that my mom was REALLY nice and knew I was worried about the price of that, and she told me that she would give me the birthday present of paying for whatever insurance didn't pay for. The weird thing is that despite my careful planning and checking on stuff, THAT surgery only came up to like $70. I went into this surgery thinking that the amount not covered by insurance would be similar to that amount, and so I wasn't took worried about it. (plus the fact that it was a semi-emergency surgery and I didn't want to have another extremely painful gall bladder attack, so I didn't have much TIME to worry about it.)
Getting the bills for this huge amount just blind-sided me. ARGH. I don't know how I'm going to pay for it. I am filling out paperwork for the hospital and the collection agency both, trying to get the amount reduced. We will see how it goes :(
MY JOB IS GOING BYE-BYE! OH NOES!
AND, just to ADD to my money woes, THIS happens: Remember this entry, where I was talking about my fear of getting a new job? Well, I guess my job has forced that decision on me. I came into my job on Friday, January 13th. It was the day before I was going to be gone for a week on my trip to North Carolina. My boss, Mark, called me into his office. He informed me that it has been decided that, because I don't make enough profit for the store, my position is going to be eliminated. My last day of work is planned to be April 1st.
O_O I still am not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I'm actually HAPPY in a way. This will push me to get a job that pays better. Also, they've given me enough time to actually search for a job, so that's good I guess. On the other hand I'm ABSOLUTELY PETRIFIED. I am scared, nervous, terrified, and completely overwhelmed all at the same time. ARGH. It's confusing as all hell.
I am working with Spherion job placement agency (and on my own, applying for stuffs that I can find that looks plausible/interesting), and hopefully I will find a decent job soon. I heard back from Citibank. Apparently I'm "not eligible for re-hire". ARGH. That's fucking ANNOYING. Why couldn't they tell me that up front before interviewing me TWICE and wasting both of our time? ARGH!
Well, that's it for THIS entry. I still need to make another entry about my car being broken into and stuff stolen in December, and an entry recapping the AWESOME time I had in North Carolina with robina1984, jem0000000, & aussiegirl17 in January... gah, I'm behind on posting!