Life, Interrupted

Well, the week started out a bit fogged, and got further fogged when I realized I had not paid the VISA last month. This thrills them -- that $39 hit brings them joy, since I normally pay it off every month. I just paid it off, so I have a chance of remembering the next time it's due.

And -- those of you paying attention to the insurance crisis might remember that my health insurance has been increasing an average of $160 a month every six months for the last two years.

Just got another one of those letters. It's going up another $170 a month on July 1st. This sort of takes all the money saved by moving my one expensive Rx to Canada. I will be paying $885 a month for insurance that pays very little for my current treatment. But because of the current treatment, I will not be able to buy insurance anywhere else just for car accidents, etc.

I may have reached the wall. It may be time to cancel the policy and simply swallow the bills from now on. I won't be doing some of the things they recommend you do, like bone density (if you don't do the hip, my doctor considers it useless) or colonoscopy or such exciting stuff. I will join the legion of people who try to eat well and take care of themselves, because there is no alternative. But I have a lot of places I could use that $885 a month, since everything is coming out of savings.

Have been doing a pretty good job of not worrying, and just trying to get well. But this, shall we say, is stretching my ability to stay calm. I think tomorrow I will call Costco and see how much my drugs cost without insurance....

Clearly, I'm too tired to rant. Chase Services just closed one of my credit cards with them -- the one I use for major conventions. I had not used it in two years, apparently, since sharing with other writers I'm often paying them instead of the hotel.

I kept that because I'd had it since 1980, and I thought that might count as something. The woman at Chase said the credit score people look at anything kept for 10 years or more, so it will, in theory, stay up.

Why couldn't they be efficient about something useful?

I was going to write the division, but may just blow it off and get a card somewhere else -- like an airline.