Do you ever have one of those days that everything goes wrong no matter what you do? Well, this was one of those days. I just don't understand how everything could go so poorly, yet it did. It started out with me trying to navigate our healthcare system. Don't get me wrong... I think that national healthcare is a really great IDEA. So far though? In reality it sucks balls. Big donkey balls. Riddle me this. Explain how for insurance that is based off of family income that 1/3 of my children has health insurance while the other 2/3 doesn't... weird right? And that it randomly got cut off last April (2013). Now, I totally understand that our case worker at DHS is way backed up and that you will never ever get a chance to talk with her but I have been leaving her messages, sending in paper work and forms upon forms since last April and still haven't heard boo back about anything. Not that your stuff is getting proceeded or that we are denied... nothing. So, like good citizens we applied for Obamacare at the beginning of the year like everybody was supposed too or else you were going to get penalized. Still haven't heard anything about it. And, of course when you try to call and talk to someone about it because you have questions you never get a person... you get a stupid automated response that transfers you and transfers you until it hangs up. And meanwhile you're on hold and the kids are running around wanting things. Frustrating. So, I finally get a hold of an actual person and he says that our case worker just submitted our paper work for insurance TWO DAYS AGO. WHAT THE HELL!?! So all this time she has been asking for shit and she just now submits our stuff a year and a half later?! Meanwhile my kids are still having their check up and random urgent visits, ya know because they're normal little kids. I was livid. I couldn't believe that it was now just getting processed. Fuck. So, now we wait another couple of months to hear back if we are denied or not. At least I know now that our stuff is in the 'system'. Great.
So, on top of that being extremely frustrating and patience draining I told my friend Jane that I would watch her kid while she worked in Ava's classroom for her birthday. Usually not a big deal but she had to drop him off extra early because she had to get her car serviced and it was just going to be easier with the carseat to drop him off early. Everything was going well and G had just gotten back with the kids from swim and in the tub when Christian started to get upset. I didn't know why so I rounded the corner to ask him what the matter was and he just started projectile vomiting all over the place. I couldn't believe it. First, the smell. I almost threw up a couple of times. Second, how much could come out of that kid! Jane and said that he hadn't eaten hardly any lunch so that amount that came out of him was amazing. He looked really startled too, because I guess this is the second time that he had ever thrown up. So, while he is throwing up all over the place I tried to get him a bowl or something but he kept following me everywhere and throwing up. It was awful. G came running down because I panicked and he saw the massacre that was. He scooped him up and got him in the downstairs tub while the others were still upstairs in the tub. I called Jane not knowing what she wanted me to do with him and she hadn't gotten to Ava's school yet. She was so apologetic and said that she would drop Ava and the treats off and then head over with the steam cleaner. I tried to clean up the chunks as best I could but there was definite stains... I felt awful because I knew that Ava was looking forward to Jane being in the room (since it was her birthday) and I knew that Jane felt awful because he child was sick and throwing up everywhere. I knew that Christian felt awful, well, because he was throwing up everywhere and then G had to leave so I was left there with the kids and one child who was sick. :( Jane came over as soon as she could with the steamer and we moved all our furniture out of the way and then we cleaned the carpet for 1.5 hours. Not awesome. The carpet looked amazing though (was trying to be positive at this point). I could tell that Jane was exhausted and was feeling guilty for missing Ava's class which made me feel terrible for calling her because I didn't know what she wanted to do. After the carpet got cleaned up she took Christian and went home and I had to get the place moved back into its original spot.
I was getting all that ready and had to get ready for work. This was supposed to be a week two for G's lab (which means he gets home early) but something came up and kids needed more data or something and he actually ended up leaving late. Not to mention all the snow we had gotten didn't make for quick travel. So, here he is coming in late which makes me late and I had to teach at someone's house and then go to the music store. I get into the car... NO GAS. Like the actual gas light was on. Seriously? And then I go to turn on the wipers since the windshield was getting grimy and they're both broken. I couldn't believe it. And, normally on a day like today I would think that I would make it to a gas station but I just thought that i was going to run out of gas. I was not in a good place. I luckily didn't run out of gas!
I know that it doesn't all sound that bad but it was the most patience draining day I had experienced in a long time. It was such a draining day that I couldn't even laugh at my misfortunate, which I normally can. Its days like this that make me grateful for all the other uneventful days I regularly have.
JVG
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