Why I didn't work (yesterday)

[sigma7]

Yesterday was some very well-coordinated "life gets up and kicks me in the bollocks" day. Getting up at 5:30 (well, okay, 5:45), driving into work sans coffee, before Burger King even opened (!), stopping for some truck stop coffee (okay, I should've known better right here), OJ and three sticks of Chewy Spree, and finding out not only that I need surgery, that I need it five or six times, that it'll cost an arm, a leg and part of a pancreas each time. Felt sick enough to leave work -- which, after the commute, is quite a waste, but I couldn't do anything but stare at the desk anyway. Moosie celebrated by walking on my lip and drawing blood. All in all, not a great day.

Today's going much better. Morning coffee. Burger King. Call from the docs saying they (well, okay, *I*) got my insurance wrong and that'll not only knock a bit off my previous bills but turns my later procedures into...well, about 10% of their original cost. Which leaves me stunned. But I'm not arguing. I should've scheduled when I had them on the phone, but let me give them time to change their minds.

The best news: MXC marathon during lunch. Ah, the high life.

Comments

[kauricat.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to learn that your insurance is going to help more than you thought. That rocks.

Tell Moosie to watch the feet. Pie does that to me too on occasion. Okay, not the bleeding lip part, but the walking and poking/tearing part. He's more a leg-man than a lip-man.

MXC? Is that the fabulous show you introduced me to a while back? I cannot WAIT to get cable. :)

Glad your day is going better than yesterday. :)

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but as I told Quasiboss, I could be on fire and having a better day than yesterday....

MXC -- if it doesn't continue with tonight's gimmick of fielding a team of Americans in their own undubbed show -- is wondrous. It's definitely hampering everyone else's production here at work. At least there are incessant Enzyte commercials to distract us....

[kauricat.livejournal.com]

Enzyte...Is that the one that states that a certain something lasting longer than four hours is not normal and should be seen by a doctor? I love those commercials.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and he's still affixed with that god-awful smile. It's probably from blood loss. Or perhaps at the prospect of never being able to go through a revolving door again.

[motteditor.livejournal.com]

I may know this, but if so, I'm blocking it from memory. What are your health ailments, if I may ask?

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

It's still more face-break stuff. Everything's structurally solid, thankfully, but now they're going in and rearranging flesh creatively to prepare for (fingers crossed) the final stage. I'd say more, but I know you've also faced your own personal dental demons, and I can get picturesque in details....

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Ugh, sorry to hear about the needed surgery, but yay for insurance. What's getting done to you now?

Maybe we should just start calling you Frankenstein....

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Maybe Frankenstein, but I'm no Destiny Frankenstein, who is right up there with Miroslav Satan in the contest for "greatest name in sports."

And right now it's just a creative redistribution of tender faceflesh. I sorta passed the buck in describing it earlier, mainly because it makes me queasy describing getting stitches where there shouldn't be stitches....

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

Ugh....*whimper* doesn't even sound fun.... Hope it goes smoothly....