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Third party carriers suck our blood

On October 6, we were overjoyed to learn that the bloodsucking workman's compensation insurance carrier for TB's employer agreed to pick up his salary (well, 70% of it again) plus backpay to May 17. We were supposed to get a check as soon as they figured out how much they owed TB. To date, we've gotten ... zip. Today we received a copy of paperwork filed by TB's attorney against the vampires asking that they pay what they owe plus an additional 25% to penalize them for bringing us into financial ruin.

Third party carriers (insurance companies) don't care that we can't pay our bills anymore. They don't care that we don't have gas or food money. They don't care that we have to max out all our credit cards ... and be unable to pay those bills when they start coming in. All they care about is hanging onto every penny they can until forced by law to give it up.

There should be a Halloween costume for these kinds of monsters, especially the ones at Selective. I wish for all of their employees a devastating experience like ours and I hope they all have insurance companies that screw them over like we've been.

As for us, I'm not sure how much longer we'll have to wait. I'm not sure what we'll do. We just have to hope for the best but expect the worst and try to come up with Plans D, E, and F now that we've run through the first three...

Baker?s Dozen

12 thoughts & 1 picture describing the weekend

1. Saturday was a totally gloomy, humid day
2. I wanted to see Ray but going to the movies didn?t work out :P
3. Sunday was totally gorgeous
4. I?m glad that the girls got to do fun things with their friends to celebrate Hallowe?en
5. The kids? costumes were very cute and original!
6. We didn?t get a lot of kids coming to our door for treats
7. Pencils are not a popular item to give out as a ?goodie?
8. It was totally hectic on Sunday, chauffeuring kids to jobs & parties
9. I?m glad the Chinese place takes credit cards!
10. Tomas was totally the most adorable costumed kid anywhere!

QOTW:

If you could spend one year living in complete happiness and total harmony, but after one year you would have no memory of it, would you still choose to do it? Why or why not?

At first I was going to say no and then I thought about it. Wouldn?t it be wonderful to have a year of complete happiness and total harmony? Even if I couldn?t remember the year, surely my body would! Wouldn?t I feel more relaxed after such a year? Surely I wouldn?t be suffering muscle spasms and headaches caused by tension. My blood pressure might not be so high. Most important, there?s no stipulation that this year of perfection would be spent alone. I?m assuming I?d be with TB and my kids and little grandson. So even if I couldn?t remember the year, they could tell me about it. I would remember the years prior to and then after this harmonious year. So under those circumstances, I?d joyfully do it!