Tearfulness.
Oct. 1st, 2009 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serafaeryHad to call the hospital again about a weird bill that's been plaguing me since April. My insurance company told me that there might be a disconnect with the "in network" vs. "out of network" issue, and that if that was the problem I should have the hospital call them.
So of course the hospital told me this charge "should have" been in-network and to call my insurance company back and ask why they billed it as out-of-network.
GAH.
BUT, before I left werk, around 6:30pm last night, someone from the hospital called me back and said she'd gotten notes from my call from earlier and assured me that THEY will call my insurance company, and she apologized for the previous person telling me to do it.
Was so grateful I cried.
And kinda kept crying all night last night. Over my excruciating hip pain (my doctor's referral expired and he is ignoring my request to give me another one. I maybe could get one if I go in and see him again, which costs me $35 out of pocket so I can't right now). And then over the finless porpoises that are all being killed by dredging in the Yankzee River - boats go through every 2 minutes dredging sand from the bottom of the river, which, if the boat itself doesn't kill them, blinds the porpoises with sand in the water, deafens them with noise, makes it impossible to find each other or cross the river (it takes more than 2 minutes to get across), and kills/buries all of their food so they are starving to death. There are less than 400 left last count (in 2008, so probably fewer now). These are innocent, sensitive, intelligent creatures being tortured and killed because humans pay money for pretty sand. Could not. stop. sobbing.
The freshwater dolphins have all been killed and the Baiji is now extinct, due to this activity. The porpoise is the last finless freshwater porpoise in the world. You don't get another try at this, people. There're GONE.
It makes me want them to to outlaw the boats, but I know they don't care and would refuse and who in China is going to listen to some American girl's tears. So I get frustrated and angry and want every human to just lay down and die. Including myself. Leave the animals alone. They're so much more deserving of life than we habitual murderers are.
AND one of my co-workers of four years just asked me to do his laundry jokingly. I haven't gotten that kind of treatment since I was a temp. Thanks, asshole.
So of course the hospital told me this charge "should have" been in-network and to call my insurance company back and ask why they billed it as out-of-network.
GAH.
BUT, before I left werk, around 6:30pm last night, someone from the hospital called me back and said she'd gotten notes from my call from earlier and assured me that THEY will call my insurance company, and she apologized for the previous person telling me to do it.
Was so grateful I cried.
And kinda kept crying all night last night. Over my excruciating hip pain (my doctor's referral expired and he is ignoring my request to give me another one. I maybe could get one if I go in and see him again, which costs me $35 out of pocket so I can't right now). And then over the finless porpoises that are all being killed by dredging in the Yankzee River - boats go through every 2 minutes dredging sand from the bottom of the river, which, if the boat itself doesn't kill them, blinds the porpoises with sand in the water, deafens them with noise, makes it impossible to find each other or cross the river (it takes more than 2 minutes to get across), and kills/buries all of their food so they are starving to death. There are less than 400 left last count (in 2008, so probably fewer now). These are innocent, sensitive, intelligent creatures being tortured and killed because humans pay money for pretty sand. Could not. stop. sobbing.
The freshwater dolphins have all been killed and the Baiji is now extinct, due to this activity. The porpoise is the last finless freshwater porpoise in the world. You don't get another try at this, people. There're GONE.
It makes me want them to to outlaw the boats, but I know they don't care and would refuse and who in China is going to listen to some American girl's tears. So I get frustrated and angry and want every human to just lay down and die. Including myself. Leave the animals alone. They're so much more deserving of life than we habitual murderers are.
AND one of my co-workers of four years just asked me to do his laundry jokingly. I haven't gotten that kind of treatment since I was a temp. Thanks, asshole.
