Tag: medical
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Availity suck, and there’s nothing you can do about it
So I’ve got something weird going on with my blood. The doctors keep taking samples and telling me my “numbers don’t make any sense”. I’m not overly-worried, but their final attempt to find out what is going on is to give me a colonoscopy (and I’m glad they left this as a ‘last resort’…). This was scheduled at my last visit a couple of months back, and the procedure day is now rapidly approaching. In preparation for this (I assume) the service provider (my doctor) contacted my medical insurance provider (Aetna) to confirm I was still covered, and hadn’t changed… Read more
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Who’s got my back?
Recently I’ve been enjoying my new-found status as a single person. It’s truly liberating to not have to think about what your ‘significant other’ wants to do, or thinks, or might react to what you want to do, or think. Sure, there are some elements of a stable relationship (with someone stable) that I miss, but not necessarily enough to jump back into it all again. I have a good friend who has been navigating a new relationship recently, and watching them deal with the misunderstandings, the personal neuroses, and the baggage that a prospective partner comes with, has made… Read more
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Asset Retirement vs. Depreciation
Maybe it’s an age thing, but recently I’ve noticed that a lot of my fellow workers (or at least the full-time employees) are starting to talk about how long they’ve got until retirement. Like seriously talking about it, even though it’s 11 years away or something. They’ve probably got countdown apps on their iPhones that wake them up every morning: “You have 4,000 days left to retirement”. I guess that’s what comes of having a decent, company-subsidized pension scheme and a retirement plan. My retirement plan is simple: Work until I’m no longer employable and then kill myself. I tell… Read more
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Corporate America is taking the piss
As a contractor, I’ve been fortunate to work for the same client for some 16 years. Admittedly this has actually been for six different legal entities, and via four different agencies / consulting companies, but always for the same corporation. During those years, I like to think that I’ve built up a good reputation as a solid, reliable worker. So I was somewhat miffed recently to find out that I was now – after 16 years – to be subject to a full background check and drug test. It turns out that this is an annual check, and was brought in as part… Read more
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Dental damn
Yesterday I paid a long-overdue visit to the dentist. I had been going to another dentist near my old office, but I stopped giving them the benefit of my extensive custom following certain ‘billing disagreements’ over what turned into several hundred dollars worth of ‘cleaning’ (and I use the term ‘worth’ very loosely…). I didn’t think my teeth had actually gotten any worse since I left school as I don’t really have a lot of tooth left to get worse, on account of the school dentist (who I swear was paid by the tooth drilled) drilling out a large portion… Read more