The past couple of days have yielded some pretty good things. There’s a couple of hiccups, but things are getting sorted out and I’m finding it much easier to focus on the good things than dwell on the bad.
I can geek out and be happy-happy that my PR is back. It hasn’t gone up the way several of the predictors said it would to a 4 or even a 5, but after having almost a month of my 3 being gone and a ‘0′ being in it’s place I’m glad to see a 3 again. It’s very disheartening when you’ve been working your butt off on something to have that hard work seemingly be worthless.
In other good news my husband finally has a working phone. We got that sorted out yesterday. The last day we could take advantage of an upgrade deal we had. We kept forgetting the flier that proved we qualified when we would be near stores that we could have used to upgrade, but now it’s taken care of, and he’s very happy to actually be able to maintain calls and not have to use the speakerphone all the time as well. I’m happy too. I’d been hoping to get that phone for him for our anniversary in March but it just wasn’t feasible.
We’re back on two seperate phone bills again, but we’re going to be saving $25 a month to what we were these past two months, so that works out. More to put away into savings.

I’d been paranoid I’d been misreading the letters from Medicaid and the munchkin wouldn’t have insurance after yesterday. He woke me up early by trying to force feed me a sock yesterday, but it worked out because that meant I could go get the bloodwork he needed done first thing, in case the insurance had disappeared.
We had our WIC recertification today and I knew if he didn’t have Medicaid any more they wouldn’t renew us so I figured that was easier confirmation than trying to wrestle with the phone system and being on hold for who knows how long. We were renewed so that means we do still qualify for Medicaid. I never thought I’d be so happy to not be making that much money as a household. WIC is the difference between us making it and not, especially while the munchkin’s been on formula as that’s over $100 a month we save.
We don’t get checks for formula any more because he’s turned one. This means to start weaning him from the bottle. I picked up some stage 2 formula the other day to help ease the transition, and we’ve been working on sippy cups on and off for a few weeks. One of the other Moms who was in the WIC office overheard me telling the munchkin we would have to pick up more sippy cups and let me know that Target was having a sale on certain kids stuff and sippy cups were included in that, so we stopped by on the way home and picked up two proper ones and two packs of ‘use and dispose’ cups as well. I tend to use and reuse even when things are disposable, but at they’re good for taking out and about because it doesn’t matter so much if they get thrown out of the car or left at a friend’s house or in a restaurant. We’ll still have the other cups here.

The only real snafu has been dealing still with BCBS. We finally got the dreaded $1600 E.R. bill yesterday, so I’ve been calling places around yesterday afternoon and this morning trying to sort out exactly what’s going on. The EMS had said our claim was denied because we had no insurance at the time of the service, which is not true. So, I was calling them to check they had our right insurance number, and calling BCBS to check they hadn’t screwed something up when the plans changed out at the end of January beginning of February, and then just as I was thinking, “OMG I got through to a real live person right away what’s going on??” the snag. They can’t talk to me about it only my husband because the service is in his name. I had a moment of almost snapping, but then representative explained it was the HIPPA regulations and all they need is for my husband to talk to them and tell them it’s okay to talk to me, just the once and I can deal with anything and everything in the future. I’m not about to wake him up given he works nights just to tell them that. So, when he’s up I’ll call back and he can let them know it’s okay and I’ll sort the mess out tomorrow.
I’m not stressing.
This is an event for me. If this had happened six months ago I’d probably have broken something by now and cussed out the rep because my temper was so frayed and anything monetary always freaks me out because of the issues with bounced checks and mountains of debt my ex put me through.
But we’re okay. If we do have to pay it I can sort something out with the hospital so we’re paying it off in small doses, maybe that extra $25 a week we’re saving on the phone bill or something. As long as we’re paying some on it, it’s okay, and it will get done. Hopefully it turns out to be ‘in network’ and applies to the deductible so we can use the HSA.