Fast-forwarding to next week.
I have nothing to look forward to this week. It’s Monday afternoon, and I’ve been going crazy since last night.
Friday was an extraordinarily awesome day. It was the last day of Adventure Boot Camp (for one week, then we start again), and we only had a half-day of work due to this state employee charity thing. I also got my monitor back from the Acer repair center, got some books I ordered from Amazon, and my insulin pump came in.
I was pleasantly surprised with how quickly everything came together with the pump. I had my doctor appointment last Monday, where we discussed my options and my doctor agreed a pump would be the best solution. The pump company called me right away, got everything squared away with my insurance company, and by Friday afternoon I had everything. Everything except training with one of the pump company’s representatives and my doctor that is. It’s not so simple that I can just start using this thing, so I have to meet with them first.
Well, I tried calling a couple different people last week. One told me to call the other, who happened to be out of town. So I left an email and heard back today that she’s still out of town the rest of this week and will call me Wednesday.
Now that is a huge amazing disappointment. Everything else happened so fast, and to get stuck at this point is nothing short of sheer evil torture. This week would have been so perfect to set this whole pump situation up. It being my off week with boot camp being the main reason for that. I don’t really like the idea of starting the pump right in the middle of the week with boot camp in the mix. I’d like to get used to it for a day or two before dealing with it in boot camp.
Plus, at the end of next week, I’ll be going on a trip with family and would also like to have as many days as possible under my belt before that as well. Going out of town with diabetes is always an adventure as it is.
So I’m really not happy that this lady is not available for training. Every time I talk to my doctor’s office, they tell me to call this other guy because he “gets things done” and I wonder if this is why. But when I called him, he told me to email her, so who knows. I might try him again tomorrow out of desperation.
I’m probably being a bit impatient, but then I remember just how expensive this insulin pump is, so I don’t feel so bad. My insurance company is covering 80% of it (plus this continuous glucose monitoring system that comes with it), and my total payment (which is the remaining 20% plus whatever my deductable is–I think maybe $300) comes out to around $1500. So yeah, not so cheap, this insulin pump. But hopefully worth it. If I ever get to use it that is.
Having this thing sitting on my floor is also making it harder for me to give a flying shit about my blood sugar readings at the moment; in other words, it’s difficult to try very hard with dealing with shots when I’m looking forward to starting something so new soon.
Anyway, with boot camp not meeting, getting my insulin pump set up was the only thing I had to look forward to this week. This week is such an in-between waste of time week. Last week was good with boot camp and Friday’s schedule to look forward to. Next week will be good because boot camp starts again and I have a trip to look forward to the following weekend. This week contains nothing but work, oh joy! >:|
I here you there. There are sometimes three-week periods of stuff I don’t have to look forword to (when my favrite shows are re-runs). By the way, follow this link if you can: C:\Users\Kendall\Documents\index.html
Blah. I hate how slow other people can be with your health sometimes. My husband got hurt at work and he called his workers comp case worker almost a month ago and she never returned his call. And his last case worker was just as bad. He just wants to get his wrist fixed so we can move on with stuff. But they’re worse than snails. Damn health care people.
Yeah I hear ya about slow healthcare – my worst thing has been my work insurance… I just got this new job I”ve been wanting *hooray! for 7k bonus* and they FINALLY decide to change it, but I’m glad for the people I work with.. See we had this thing called a benefits card – which was AWESOME cause you could use it for anything medical… then they started auditing EVERYTHING… we didn’t realize what was going on till our card was denied at our doctors office – long and short of it = 8 months before we were able to start paying our medical bills with it. Everyone I know bitched about the same stuff happening, so they finally did away with it this year, but some poor people were banking the money that rolled over on it for eye surgery and stuff.. so I guess they’re unhappy.
8 months? Ack, yeah, I’d probably be in the super pissed category of that situation!
Congrats on the new job, by the way!! ^__^
Deb that’s totally ridiculous they didn’t return your husband’s call. You really have to wonder what they expect him to do in the mean time…you’d think it would be beneficial to all to get it taken care of quickly.
And I came into this insulin pump situation very much expecting the insurance company to be the overly slow part of the whole thing. Turns out they were beyond super speedy, go figure. What I’d like to know is why the one person who does pump training in our entire area is tied up in a two-week meeting! >__>
Kendall — you’ll have to upload somewhere online for me to see. That’s just a link to your local hard drive!
Sorry wrong link. I’ll have to give it to you later-it’s really long.
So, I know it’s no pump training, but maybe this’ll make your week a little better.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfrbxfhw_6cstdv9ff
YAYAYAY!
*sigh* i miss your stories…r u still working on them?
not much
Your MIA Jaclyn.. 13 days is too long, I need something to read at work… LOL! Hope you’re doing well