Buckrub
03-25-2015, 04:51 PM
Weather is nice, but every lake and river in this state is high and muddy as Thump's brains. And I had several things I've put off and just decided to go take care of them.
First, I got to get Mama's truck tires rotated. Free where I bought tires, for life of tires. SURE, they said, we're not that busy; we can get you right in! And they did. And voila. A wheel bearing was going out. I KNEW that, I just sorta hid my head in the sand. And yes, they're friends and honest. And so I sat for hours while they did that......and boy does it ride better. Several hundred bucks!
Then I go to Walgreens. I hate Walgreens. But Walmart pharmacy is the other choice and the lines there are forty miles long. I could write three or four pages of what happened.......but I'm too ticked off and too worn out to do it. Summarize it this way..........for 11 days now, I've fought a battle between what dose of Asmanex the doctor will prescribe, vs. what my insurance will pay for, vs. what Walgreens has in stock or can get. Yesterday I blew up at them on phone and said it had been 10 days. They called back, said it was all fixed, they'd contacted my doctor and my insurance. Fine. I go to pick it up and they TAKE IT OUT OF THE SACK in front of my eyes and put it back on shelf. I ask why???!!!?? They don't know. That's absurd. I get the manager. She says it's because they were TRYING to make up a partial from last quarter's refill and that pushed the total dosage over 90 days, and insurance won't pay. I told her she OWED me 30 days worth because they were out! We haggled for almost an hour, off to the side, and she finally just gave me 30 days worth free, and filled another prescription for 90 days. Cost was several hundred dollars. Total retail price of just those two prescriptions was $1150.00, and my part was over $200.00. They keep moving my drugs up a Tier every year. Sigh. It's a freaking conspiracy. How nice it was to have good corporate group insurance.........and how fubared this mess is!!
Then........I have to go get oil changed in Mama's truck. And get her donut crumbs vacuumed out. That took another hour.
THEN, I came home and before the storms hit tonight, I got on roof and blew off a winter's worth of pine needles, and then blew off the driveway.
And now here I sit, staring out the window, and wondering what the bejeebers is up with this weather....it's going to be 37 again Friday night?? Is there no Spring???? agggh.
Other than a six hundred dollar day, and being worn out, I'm having a peach of a day! How about y'all?
:headbang
First, I got to get Mama's truck tires rotated. Free where I bought tires, for life of tires. SURE, they said, we're not that busy; we can get you right in! And they did. And voila. A wheel bearing was going out. I KNEW that, I just sorta hid my head in the sand. And yes, they're friends and honest. And so I sat for hours while they did that......and boy does it ride better. Several hundred bucks!
Then I go to Walgreens. I hate Walgreens. But Walmart pharmacy is the other choice and the lines there are forty miles long. I could write three or four pages of what happened.......but I'm too ticked off and too worn out to do it. Summarize it this way..........for 11 days now, I've fought a battle between what dose of Asmanex the doctor will prescribe, vs. what my insurance will pay for, vs. what Walgreens has in stock or can get. Yesterday I blew up at them on phone and said it had been 10 days. They called back, said it was all fixed, they'd contacted my doctor and my insurance. Fine. I go to pick it up and they TAKE IT OUT OF THE SACK in front of my eyes and put it back on shelf. I ask why???!!!?? They don't know. That's absurd. I get the manager. She says it's because they were TRYING to make up a partial from last quarter's refill and that pushed the total dosage over 90 days, and insurance won't pay. I told her she OWED me 30 days worth because they were out! We haggled for almost an hour, off to the side, and she finally just gave me 30 days worth free, and filled another prescription for 90 days. Cost was several hundred dollars. Total retail price of just those two prescriptions was $1150.00, and my part was over $200.00. They keep moving my drugs up a Tier every year. Sigh. It's a freaking conspiracy. How nice it was to have good corporate group insurance.........and how fubared this mess is!!
Then........I have to go get oil changed in Mama's truck. And get her donut crumbs vacuumed out. That took another hour.
THEN, I came home and before the storms hit tonight, I got on roof and blew off a winter's worth of pine needles, and then blew off the driveway.
And now here I sit, staring out the window, and wondering what the bejeebers is up with this weather....it's going to be 37 again Friday night?? Is there no Spring???? agggh.
Other than a six hundred dollar day, and being worn out, I'm having a peach of a day! How about y'all?
:headbang