Isn't wonderful how people who never meet you, let alone examine the problem, are able to tell if something is medically necessary better than the medical provider who knows you and has seen the condition first hand? Dang, it's just like magic.
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Absolutely valid point, but a lot of people don’t realise it’s not always necessary and that the view (and research) on whether to remove wisdom teeth prophylactically is changing. Many patients still assume they have to get the teeth out and never think to ask, which is the only point I wanted to raise.
Good luck, X Equestris! Fighting with insurance is never fun. 
Hopefully they don't make it necessary to fight.
Hopefully they don't make it necessary to fight.
You’re fine by me, Tally; I’m pretty sure Catriona was just taking a swipe at the lovely practice of prior authorizations.
Thanks! I’m not expecting a fight at the moment. They’ve been nothing but good to me so far. But you never know…Good luck, X Equestris! Fighting with insurance is never fun.
Right now, it’s just a matter of waiting for their bureaucracy to move.
I hate them teeth issues. I've had a cracked in half molar for a few years now, but I am terrified of getting an extraction. Quite irrationally, I'd prefer to try the Cast Away method than sit in a chair and have someone chisel away at my jawbone. So, I just chew on one side of my mouth.
Not the thing I intended to post - things are getting stupid at work again, and there's nothing I can do about it. I'd love to quit, but the job market is not looking good, and fully remote work is becoming extremely scarce. Good gods, would I love to just write fiction for a living instead.
Not the thing I intended to post - things are getting stupid at work again, and there's nothing I can do about it. I'd love to quit, but the job market is not looking good, and fully remote work is becoming extremely scarce. Good gods, would I love to just write fiction for a living instead.
Oh yes. Woops. It is horrible. I can’t imagine having to deal with that on top of any health worries about the procedure. Good luck!
Okay, it’s definitely impacted. The dentist didn’t say outright whether or not it was, but the insurer’s response to our prior authorization request arrived this afternoon (accepted, btw!) and it was listed as extraction of an impacted wisdom tooth.
At least the acceptance means there’s a silver lining there.
What made me unhappy today is the fact that insurance simultaneously denied coverage for the exam, which is…bizarre? I’m not at all looking forward to the appeals process. Fortunately, if it’s denied as well, the bill should be reasonable. But looking at the listed benefits, I don’t see why there should be one at all.
Between the dental drama and some other stuff, not a fun Saturday.
It does make me a little unhappy when members with valuable insights, honesty and deft writing skill drift away from the boards. I too hope to see more from Trish in the future.
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I noticed she was MIA, too. I always enjoyed reading her posts.
I like Trish. There are a number of members from the old board who don't seem to have made the jump (yet) whose presence I don't miss so much though. They'll remain nameless for the sake of forum unity, especially if we drift near an island where they washed up and they make it aboard.
Lots of people take breaks, too. Whether it's from screens in general or online communities or whatever. I have to stay away during my working hours for long (but often predictable) stretches. I just have to keep laser focused. My brain is capable of almost limitless multitasking so long as everything is clumped together in the immediate. Stick a foreign object in there, though, and my neural net crashes.
When I was in college, I submitted poems to the college’s literary magazine. There was this one poem that I was so proud of (something to do with a dilapidated single-wide trailer that was very close to my parents house), and I was thinking about it recently. I went into my poems folder on my iPad to find it. Couldn’t find it. So I was like, “Okay, I’ll just find the literary magazine and copy/paste into my poetry file.” No. They removed the entire magazine for that year. Completely gone. I even tried to see if I could find it on the Wayback Machine. Can’t.
So I guess I lost that poem. It really stinks. I know I could just try to rewrite it, but it won’t be the same . . .
So I guess I lost that poem. It really stinks. I know I could just try to rewrite it, but it won’t be the same . . .
Way back in 2003 or thereabouts, I worked hard on the first novel I was writing ... and this was before I had any idea what I was doing, it was simply a "Yes Minister" / "Blackadder" parody transported into the Middle Ages. You know the sort of thing: someone completely unprepared for ruling suddenly becomes a nobleman, and has to deal with issues from the Middle Ages: fake witch-hunters, fake relics being taken for real, attacks from brigands, etc. etc.
I did *some* research on it, but it was silly (with one or two anachronisms and lots of references to medieval concepts), but I still liked it anyway ... and would've done more polishing on it, except that suddenly, it disappeared. :-\ I searched high and low, including on my floppies (this was still the era of carrying FDs around), but couldn't find it. And then, suddenly and just as mysteriously, I found all 18 chapters of it on a random 3.5" floppy.
Very odd, that was.
(I don't think I could publish it. 'Tis a silly book).
A minor one, all in all, but I woke up to a reminder message for a doctor’s appointment tomorrow morning…an appointment I never asked for. And because it’s Sunday, I can’t call to cancel!
First of all, it finally rained today (yesterday, since it's after midnight now). This made me very happy, but it had slacked off by the time I got off my retail job at 10:00 PM and drove across to the Walmart to buy cat food. I always park at the bottom of the lot (to get more steps in), and tonight I deliberately left my umbrella in the car in the superstitious hope that it would make it start raining again.
It worked. By the time I got out the door of Wally World, it was bucketing again. No problem, I thought. My hair dries fast and it's easy enough to change my shirt. Run to the car and let it rain!
What I totally forgot was the phone in my shallow back pocket, sitting charger port up. I totally forgot the implications when I got home and plugged it in to chargep as I was putting away dishes in my kitchen. Took it off the charger when I was walking around--- have to get the rest of my steps in, right?--- plugged it back in, and got the TAKE THIS PHONE OFF THE CHARGER RIGHT NOW, YOU FOOL, YOU GOT WATER IN THE PORT!!! message. I did, but the warning knell started anyway and I couldn't get it to quit without my turning the phone off altogether. By that time, it was down to 5%, and it took so long to shut the bloody thing off, it's now down to nothing.
And no, I don't own a wireless charger.
I have to be up at 5:50 in the morning and I depend on the music alarm app on my phone. Yes, I have a sunrise alarm on the bureau and an analogue alarm on the bookcase. I'm very good at ignoring both. *Sigh*
It worked. By the time I got out the door of Wally World, it was bucketing again. No problem, I thought. My hair dries fast and it's easy enough to change my shirt. Run to the car and let it rain!
What I totally forgot was the phone in my shallow back pocket, sitting charger port up. I totally forgot the implications when I got home and plugged it in to chargep as I was putting away dishes in my kitchen. Took it off the charger when I was walking around--- have to get the rest of my steps in, right?--- plugged it back in, and got the TAKE THIS PHONE OFF THE CHARGER RIGHT NOW, YOU FOOL, YOU GOT WATER IN THE PORT!!! message. I did, but the warning knell started anyway and I couldn't get it to quit without my turning the phone off altogether. By that time, it was down to 5%, and it took so long to shut the bloody thing off, it's now down to nothing.
And no, I don't own a wireless charger.
I have to be up at 5:50 in the morning and I depend on the music alarm app on my phone. Yes, I have a sunrise alarm on the bureau and an analogue alarm on the bookcase. I'm very good at ignoring both. *Sigh*
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With autumn comes the later sunrise. This morning I dropped my wife off at her lab, then went to get a couple donuts. As I turned left into the bakery parking lot, on a street with scarce streetlights, a person on a bicycle, without lights and in dark clothing, appeared out of nowhere and whizzed past. Fortunately, that person was far enough off that nothing happened, but it scared the bejeebers out of me. Even if nothing serious had happened, it would have been a complicated situation had we collided. And it might even have been deemed my fault.
@Homer Potvin would understand this -- this was down by the University campus where purportedly the state's "best and brightest" reside -- but why those students don't take commonsense steps to be safe, like brighter clothes and lights in the darkness (not to mention not wearing headphones) is beyond me. Or maybe not. I was young once, and probably had different priorities. And even survived.
@Homer Potvin would understand this -- this was down by the University campus where purportedly the state's "best and brightest" reside -- but why those students don't take commonsense steps to be safe, like brighter clothes and lights in the darkness (not to mention not wearing headphones) is beyond me. Or maybe not. I was young once, and probably had different priorities. And even survived.
It would probably be better.
