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Sunday, October 7, 2012

I L♥ve My Job

 
Received this in my email from my Mother-in-law
and just had to share...
 
If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! 
This is even funnier when you realize it's real!
Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.

Bob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana
He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs.
Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103 .5 on FM dial in
Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest.

Needless to say, she won. 

Read his letter below...
 
~Hi Sue,

Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.
Last week I had a bad day at the office.
I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all.
Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool.
So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature.
It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose.

Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.
What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit.
This floods my whole suit with warm water

It's like working in a Jacuzzi.
Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it.
This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my ass started to burn.
I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.
The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it, however, the crack of my ass was not as fortunate.
When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my ass.  

I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator.

His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.
Needless to say, I aborted the dive.

I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totalling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression.
When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet.
As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't shit for two days because my ass was swollen shut.
So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your ass. Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.'
Whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?

May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day! !!!!
 
Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
~
 


Thursday, October 4, 2012






Just a quick fly by today! Getting ready to take T to the Dr's Office to get paperwork then onto the hospital for T's Pre-op. 

Since we found out he was having surgery so quickly, we figured we bettter do the "major attack" prior to his surgery.

Our front tree now has a single trunk! yippee!
For years the city owned it and we weren't allowed to even trim it.
The poor economy hit and all of a sudden the tree was ours.
They came around one last time for pruning prior to releasing ownership, but ahem, someone wouldn't let them prune it.
Forward to yesterday and look at the pile we have ready for city pick up!


Yeh, we can barely move and have blisters but it was sooo worth it!
Plus no pruning for a few years...oh yeh ;)

Not much left blooming...
we've had temps to 105, so even if the plant wasn't done blooming,
it's fried!
This little Rockin' Robin is trying tho.

The Lantana is enjoying the heat, but it is lucky enough to be near the hose.

Even the Geraniums are suffering.

But Looky what my Pomegranite gave us!!!
Yummy!!!

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

11 Years In The Making ~


Incompetence runs rampant!!

 
T was scheduled for a hydroscan at o'dark thirty this morning. We get to the hospital 1 1/2 hrs early as told to and it seems they don't have authorization from the insurance.  
He's hungry and grumbly since NPO since midnight.  No one can call the surgeon's office cuz they don't open until 9am, which is T's actual appointment time......

The hospital lady calls billing and they can't help. I decided to call TriCare to see if they can help. They see no auth ordered but tell me if I have the billing code they can look it up and see if an auth is actually needed. I ask the hospital lady for the code. She then says she has to ask billing.  I hang up from TriCare since the hospital lady says it may take a while.  Hospital lady finally gets a call from billing and gets the code. Hurray!! I call TriCare back and explain to the second rep what is going on and give him the code.........he tells me that code was discontinued in Jan.

Taking a DEEP breath,  I thank him for his time and hang up. I tell the hospital lady that the code is not valid. 
 In that case she says you have to sign this paper that says if your insurance decides not to cover it you will pay.........uh, I don't think so. We all stand there looking at each other, her dumbfounded, me not so much.


They call T back.   We go back, he has his 2 hour hydroscan and we sneak out leave.

     They can do their job and figure out the auth/billing/etc!

 

Believe it or not this all started 11 years ago. T started having bad pains in his stomach. They did an ultrasound and hydroscan at that time and discovered his Gallbladder was failing, but not enough for removal. He had no stones, so he has been dealing with pain/spasming off and on ever since. A few months ago it got really bad so into our Family Doctor we went. He, of course, sent us to a surgeon. Had a consult with the surgeon and he wanted to do an upper GI first. So we scheduled it. In the mean time I receive a call from another surgeon's office wanting to set up a consult for T. I told them he had already seen the surgeon and a procedure was in place. This office said that that surgeon was not in our network. I was so confused, I made an appointment with the second one. Then started thinking. Why would we need a second surgeon when our insurance always goes in network. I thought maybe our family Doctor wanted a second opinion? I called him and he said no they only requested one surgeon. Now totally confused I called our insurance. They said that the first surgeon, upper GI physician and the second surgeon were not in our network and we would have to pay a percentage of the bills!!  I about had a cow! Why would they authorize out of network Doctors without consulting us!  So I asked for the names of surgeons in our network. She wanted me to get online on their site and find them for myself! HA!!! Been there done that! I told her I have been round and round with their formularies trying to get prescriptions covered and that they do NOT keep their lists up to date. I demanded her to give me names, after all she was right there on the phone with me..uh do YOUR JOB!!   She gave me 3 names of surgeons that were in network. I called our Family Doctor back to inform them of the names and update what was going on. Oh, and we would have to start all over with a new auth since we were changing surgeons. So needless to say it delayed T seeing a new surgeon for another month. I called the two earlier surgeons and Upper GI physician and canceled all appointments. I still can't believe they auth'ed 3 out of network doctors. And would you believe the one he is seeing now is only half the distance as the others!!! 

 
Update
 
We got the results from the Hydroscan from the 3rd, and correct, surgeon today and T will be having surgery next Thursday, Oct. 11th.
It is considered out patient surgery so he will only be in the hospital for a day. My daughter has already has had hers out so we kind of know what to expect, even though hers was about 10 years ago.
This Friday we pick up paperwork and auth from surgeons office then head to the hospital for preregistration.
 We should be all set and ready to go....hopefully....



BUT as we all know
Incompetence STILL runs rampant!!

Monday, October 1, 2012

It's Just Around the Corner!


Yes, the Holidays will be here before we know it!
So I've been on the look out for some new ideas for great homemade gifts. Frugality again this year wins.

Here are a few of my possibilities:

Spice Kits for the Gourmet Cook
mixingbowlkids.typepad.com

 Apple Vodka ~ Celebrate!
mixingbowlkids.typepad.com

 Refreshing Foot Scrub
theidearoom.net

Hand scrub ~ a great gift for the gardener
northerncottage.net

Candles are a must for the Holidays
and make a great gift
theivycottageblog.blogspot.com

 Love Tea Cup Candles ~ So sweet
reneweduponadream.blogspot.com

 Room Sprays
in pretty hand decorated bottles
bystephanielynn.com

Darling Mason Jar 
supersaturdayldscrafts.blogspot.com




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