Medical Insurance and Other Things

I have been postponing doing something for three days mostly because I hate making phone calls and I doubleplus hate making phone calls to places where one has to  "press 1 for…" But I really had to call Medicare to get my drug supplement sorted out.

I take four generic medications to help me keep chugging along and I pay a supplemental amount to help cover the cost of these. Of course, since they ARE generic–which is always my choice when I have this choice– I actually have never as yet spent enough on drugs to cover the part I have to pay before the insurance kicks in, but since I am the age that I am, there is definitely a chance that I may some time in the future have to have a drug for which there is no generic. Anyway, I got snail mail from my present insurance provider that I was not covered in North Carolina after the last day of this month. The letter told me to call Medicare for information as to who I could sign up with to remain covered.

So, this morning, I grit my teeth and forced myself to call. I had to go through the various "press this" and "press that" routines and I eventually got to talk to a Real Person. She was VERY helpful and explained everything very clearly. I have, apparently, a couple of choices and she explained what I would pay for each medication I take now.  I told her I wanted this payment NOT  to come from the present account where I have it since I am working on closing that account in Vermont. So, until I say otherwise, the bill will come to me here and I will send them a check. Actually, I will most probably set it up for bill paying from my new account.

I am SO relieved to have this done. I knew it would all turn out to be much easier than I thought it was going to be because, by and large, this almost always happens to me. I worry for days over something I have to do, force myself to do it, and the whole thing turns out to be a doddle!

Goals for today:

• Put dried laundry away
• Clean the kitchen floor and the surface areas. {I did much better at this when I had the mouse! }
• Vacuum and dust everywhere.
• If I have enough energy, put away the clothes that are piled on a chair in the bedroom. {This chore has been hanging around for a while. If I don’t get it done today, it will be top of tomorrow’s list.}
• Go out to dinner with Jake this evening. {This is the "Thank you for letting me stay with you" for the time I spent at his house when the flood water damage was being fixed. This means he chooses where we go and I pay!}

In the last week or so, I have heard banging and tapping going on in the apartment above me and yesterday I heard those people move back in. I have heard nothing from the top apartment, the one where it all started, but this might be because these apartments are very well insulated from each other. Before the water debacle, I occasionally heard, but very faintly, the vibration from the washer and drier and the vacuum cleaner from the people who live directly above me.

OK, time to tackle the kitchen…