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I Hate Red Tape June 14, 2004

I will be so glad when I don’t have to deal with all the crap that goes along with my husband’s surgery. I called the facility that will be doing the cryopreservation of the sperm retrieved at the time of the surgery to verify that they had received the order from my husband’s doctor. They had not. I called the lady that handles all of the scheduling for my husband’s doctor (the same woman that caused me so much stress in scheduling the surgery in the first place) and she said that the order hadn’t been faxed yet. Yeah, I knew that much. She said to call her back tomorrow when the Dr. would be in the office. She is absolutely no help at all.

I then talked to the secretary of the surgeon that will the assisting my husband’s doctor, since I hadn’t received a referral/approval thing from our insurance for that doctor. She gave me info that totally contradicted what the letter from the insurance said. I really don’t know what to do about that situation.

I also tried to call the leasing office of our apartment complex, because our lease is expiring at the end of the month. Their line picked up, but all I heard was two people talking to each other. Then I was disconnected. I have since delegated that task to my hubby. I’m just too frustrated to try again.

I’m also stressing about my most recent ebay purchase. I bought some new 5.8 gHz phones about a week and a half ago. At the time I bought them, the seller had excellent feedback, but since then he has receive two negative feedbacks from people that have purchased the same type of item. One person claims to not have received their purchase after 3 months. The other claims that their item wasn’t shipped until 11 days after payment was made and that the seller threatened them with bad feedback if they complained. I’m really careful about who I buy from on ebay, especially when buying something expensive. I realize that buyers are protected from fraud through credit card companies and through paypal, but it still makes me nervous. I just want my phones. I want to have one less thing to worry about.

I have another source of stress right now. Apparently I have angular cheilitis. For the past couple of weeks I’ve had this crack in the corner of my mouth. It hurts a lot especially when eating, laughing, or just opening my mouth in general. Last night I googled “cracked lip corner” and found out what it was. I’m really hoping to get away with not having to go to the doctor, but who knows. Just one more thing, you know.

Well, I’ve just reread this post, and I sure am grumpy. I guess it’s my prerogative to bitch and complain on my blog, but I’ve noticed I’ve been doing a lot of that lately. I wish I could just cheer up, but I don’t think it’s going to happen, at least not anytime soon. I’m a worrier by nature, so right now I’m feeling overwhelmed. I really hope that in a week most of this will be settled. My hubby will be having his surgery next Monday, so hopefully all that goes along with that will be resolved. On the other hand, depending on the results of the surgery we could have a whole other set of things to worry about. Ok. I just need to stop now and hope for the best.

Side note: I’ve always thought prerogative was spelled perogative. Apparently I’m not the only one.

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