I’m bringing my car into the garage tomorrow between 7 – 9 a.m. so that they can look at the battery and possibly replace it. That’s irritating, yes, but at least it’s a problem being taken care of. The place is about a quarter mile from my house so I can walk home after dropping off the car. Or see if my brother can drive me back. I am not happy about the multiple car problems I’ve had, but if everything gets fixed, then fine.
However. I got a letter from the county saying that they had not receive my renewal form and my medical insurance was going not going to be renewed. The renewal date is 2/2/24. So a week and a half from now. I called the county this morning and got put on hold. “We are experiencing an unusally heavy volume of calls this morning, and you may have to wait.” That’s what I hear every time I call them, but it probbaly is especially true since the pandemic.
I got a person after an hour on hold. That was actually half the amount of time it took me last time. Let me tell you that I sent in the form three weeks ago (at the beginning of this month). It was a bit after the deadline, but I’ve done that before. I’m not proud of it, but it’s never been a problem. Oh, and this is the first year they’ve made people renew their forms since the pandemic. Which, again, is probably why they’re slammed.
Anyway. They received my form, but apparently, they don’t acknowledge that at all. Because they are behind in processing them, the notices for cancellation went out, anyway. Do you get how fucked that is? I did everything right (mostly), and they HAVE my renewal form. They’ve had it for three weeks, but they haven’t processed it yet. In the meantime, there is a week and a half until my insurance runs out.
The woman told me that if I don’t get a confirmation that my insurance has been renewed by January 31st, I should call back (sigh) and ask for the process to be expedited. But she couldn’t do it today because technically, I’m still covered. How fucked up is that? It has to actually elapse or be a day before elapsing before it can be expedited. This is just bonkers to me. It has to be the pandemic because I’ve never had this issue in renewing before.
I told Ian (before the medical insurance bullshit) that I would rather deal with dying twice again than this drip, drip, drip, of mundane life annoyances. In part because i was unconsicous for much of it, but also because I didn’t really have to do anything other than recover once I was out of the hospital.
Another reason I’m irritated is because some of it is not necessary. What I mean is that it started with ComCast/Xfinity telling me that my data usage was over the limit one month. The 1 TB limit. Which is fucking impossible. For context, I was using 10 GB a month before it started multiplying exponentially and my internet usage has not changed in that time. I got a new modem and that helped, but it was still 300 GB, which is 30 times what I actually use. There was no way to reach an actual human being at the company, so for now, I’m reluctantly just letting it be. If it reached close to 1 TB per month again, I may have to try to tthink of a creative solution. Creative because Comcast has a soft monopoly where I live atd the chances that I could find anything comparable is miniscule.
The car stuff is just car stuff. You have to deal with it, especially in Minnesota. It’s anonying, but there’s nothing I can really do about it. And at least I can talk to a human being. As for the phone, again, it was someone who hit the phone box. Nothing to be done about that. But it was doubly irritating because I could not talk to a human.
As for the healthcare insurance, I’m just weary. I know it’s a rough job, but I tihnk them notifying me that this is the situation and why it’s taking so long is not too much to ask. It just really appalls me that I could lose my insurance through no fault of my own. Also, I have tho time to wait on the phone for an hour-plus, but many people don’t–especially during normal people work hours. So what are they supposed to do?
I’m done with 2024. I know we are ascant three weeks in, but I’m over it. If one more thing out of my control happens, I’m goin to scream. It doesn’t help that my cat is being so picky about his food. I know he can’t help it and he’s old, but it’s just not helping right now.
I hope that the rest of January is better than it has been so far. I am not impressed with 2024. I much prefer 2022 and 2023, thank you very much. I know I can’t go back, and I know I don’t have a choice, but my god this year has kicked my ass so far.
It’s gotten to the point where I’m just bracing myself for the next ‘oh, by the way’ experience. Again, it’s death by a thousand papercuts that really drains my energy. I have PTSD and am much better dealing with an actual crisis than I am with daily life. I know none of this should be so hard on me, but I just can’t deal.
Tangentially, I have been talking to a friend about ADHD and autism. She has both (is in the process of being diagnosed) and has suggested that I get tested for both (and not just autism). Which I think is a good call, but I’m tired just from thinking about it. It’s so hard for me to get the energy to do something, and then when I have to do something additional, it angers me irrationally. What I mean is that I got my renewal form in (late, but within a reasonable timeframe), and I still have to deal with the tension of whether they will get it processed in time or not.
I’m tired. I’m done. Let’s go back to 2023.