Twenty twenty twenty four hours to go; I want to pee sedated

Feb 05, 2013

“So what are you doing today, Horrible Monster?”

“Oh, you know. Peeing into a jug.”

Taking care of the 24-hour urine sample. Good thing I was able to just stay home today. Lugging the “hat” and the jug around while running errands would have been a bit of a bummer. Doable, sure, but a bit of a bummer. (Totally feeling good about my otherwise reckless and selfish decision to quit my job a couple weeks ago.)

Tomorrow afternoon the plan is: pick up Mom from her job, run the jug back to the lab, pick up my husband from work, run back to the hospital, attend the mandatory pre-op class. Nervous, excited, ready to hand over my jug of pee. Also very grateful for the support of my parents and husband.

Unrelated to pee: on the first of the year, our insurance changed. Unfortunately I forgot to tell the Center for Weight Loss Surgery. Well, I didn't so much “forget” as I “mistakenly assumed” that the Center was part of the hospital. It turns out the surgeon has hospital privileges but doesn't actually work FOR the hospital so when I went for my endoscopy, that was “the hospital” and not “the weight loss clinic,” even though the bariatric surgeon performed the procedure.

Anyway, I assumed when I gave my new insurance card and information on the day of the endoscopy that I was giving the information to the Center for Weight Loss Surgery as well. A week or so ago someone from the weight loss clinic called and asked what was up and I let her know the insurance changed and all that. So I wasn't surprised when I received an angry-looking FINAL NOTICE in the mail today. I guess they'd tried to submit a claim to our previous insurance company and it was denied and blah blah. It was only for about $11.00; I popped a check in the mail and it should be all good. I already confirmed with the patient coordinator that I can bring my updated insurance card and info to the class tomorrow. Unnerving, though, to make a mistake like this when I'm trying so hard to stay on top of everything.  

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