Darryl Mott
@gamerstavernshow.com
Gentle reminder that, while my finances are generally sorted for regular expenses and I have insurance coverage now, I do still have a lot of maxed-out credit cards because I had to charge medical transport and groceries. The best I can do is pay the minimums. Any help is appreciated!
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Been a while since my last update. So here's what's going on in my healthcare world.
My physical therapy is finished. Not because I'm done but because my primary insurance won't pay for any moire sessions and the ones I missed when I was in the hospital did NOT roll over like I was told they would. I didn't even get a proper discharge with instructions on how to continue on my own or anything. Hell, they stopped even returning my calls after I missed the last session (see below). Kinda makes me sad because they did so much good for me and were so nice, and then the second the coverage dries up, I can't even get a confirmation that I'm no longer their patient.
The other big deal is my Medicaid has switched to managed coverage through a company called Wellpoint. This change happened on May 1st. Medicaid is handling my transportation now and on Tuesday, we had an issue.
Even though I told them I had physical therapy and wound care every Tuesday and Thursday, they for some reason forgot to schedule me for Tuesday, April 29. By the time I figured out my ride wasn't coming, it was too late for alternatives and I missed what I found out was my last physical therapy appointment. And then had not one, not two, but THREE panic attacks talked to seven people (including three supervisors) from three different companies - the old transport management company, the new transport management company, and Medicaid itself. But I finally managed to secure a ride to wound care.
The third panic attack technically wasn't involved in that, but the same day I called to sort out transport for the future. The problem is I wasn't in the system until May 1st. And since I wasn't active in the system until May 1st, I had to call on May 1st. But their policy is to call 48 hours in advance. So I had to, on May 1st, call 48 hours in advance of May 1st to schedule a ride for May 1st. Due to my unfortunate lack of a time machine, I couldn't figure out how this was possible. And had another panic attack on the phone and later just flat out broke down crying in pure defeat because I wouldn't get my wound care or my dialysis. My crying apparently worked because the last operator I talked with stayed on the line with me for about an hour to figure out how to get the rides scheduled. I called on Thursday, May 1st and scheduled rides all the way through June or July easily, so that's taken care of.
My current medical issue: My left leg in particular hates me. This past Sunday and Tuesday both, I was in such intense pain I was unable to sleep. I got less than 2 hours sleep on Sunday and no sleep whatsoever on Tuesday. Both nights I seriously considered calling 911 the pain was so bad. For you pain scale fans, it was a baseline level of 5 or 6 with spikes going all the way up to 9 at times. I've spoken with wound care about this and they're not sure what's causing it or what to do about it, but the issue's gotten so bad that not only have they issued a THIRD referral for pain management for me, but my DIALYSIS clinic has also issued one because they thought I was in serious distress in the waiting room and wanted to send me to the hospital. One nice person mistook me gritting through the pain during a spike and then breathing heavily after holding my breath as me having an attack and needing oxygen.
So that's where we stand right now. I don't have any direct ongoing expenses. I am, however, paying down a LOT of credit card debt I've racked up. I put a lot of those expensive transport costs before I got Medicaid on credit cards along with groceries a few times I was short on money but needed food. All my cards are basically maxed out right now (aside from my Best Buy card). The GoFundMe at this point is going to pay down those debts so I can crawl out from under the increasing interest payments along with keeping collection agencies off me for the medical billth as Medicaid sorts out what older billth they'll pay. Any help is appreciated!
My physical therapy is finished. Not because I'm done but because my primary insurance won't pay for any moire sessions and the ones I missed when I was in the hospital did NOT roll over like I was told they would. I didn't even get a proper discharge with instructions on how to continue on my own or anything. Hell, they stopped even returning my calls after I missed the last session (see below). Kinda makes me sad because they did so much good for me and were so nice, and then the second the coverage dries up, I can't even get a confirmation that I'm no longer their patient.
The other big deal is my Medicaid has switched to managed coverage through a company called Wellpoint. This change happened on May 1st. Medicaid is handling my transportation now and on Tuesday, we had an issue.
Even though I told them I had physical therapy and wound care every Tuesday and Thursday, they for some reason forgot to schedule me for Tuesday, April 29. By the time I figured out my ride wasn't coming, it was too late for alternatives and I missed what I found out was my last physical therapy appointment. And then had not one, not two, but THREE panic attacks talked to seven people (including three supervisors) from three different companies - the old transport management company, the new transport management company, and Medicaid itself. But I finally managed to secure a ride to wound care.
The third panic attack technically wasn't involved in that, but the same day I called to sort out transport for the future. The problem is I wasn't in the system until May 1st. And since I wasn't active in the system until May 1st, I had to call on May 1st. But their policy is to call 48 hours in advance. So I had to, on May 1st, call 48 hours in advance of May 1st to schedule a ride for May 1st. Due to my unfortunate lack of a time machine, I couldn't figure out how this was possible. And had another panic attack on the phone and later just flat out broke down crying in pure defeat because I wouldn't get my wound care or my dialysis. My crying apparently worked because the last operator I talked with stayed on the line with me for about an hour to figure out how to get the rides scheduled. I called on Thursday, May 1st and scheduled rides all the way through June or July easily, so that's taken care of.
My current medical issue: My left leg in particular hates me. This past Sunday and Tuesday both, I was in such intense pain I was unable to sleep. I got less than 2 hours sleep on Sunday and no sleep whatsoever on Tuesday. Both nights I seriously considered calling 911 the pain was so bad. For you pain scale fans, it was a baseline level of 5 or 6 with spikes going all the way up to 9 at times. I've spoken with wound care about this and they're not sure what's causing it or what to do about it, but the issue's gotten so bad that not only have they issued a THIRD referral for pain management for me, but my DIALYSIS clinic has also issued one because they thought I was in serious distress in the waiting room and wanted to send me to the hospital. One nice person mistook me gritting through the pain during a spike and then breathing heavily after holding my breath as me having an attack and needing oxygen.
So that's where we stand right now. I don't have any direct ongoing expenses. I am, however, paying down a LOT of credit card debt I've racked up. I put a lot of those expensive transport costs before I got Medicaid on credit cards along with groceries a few times I was short on money but needed food. All my cards are basically maxed out right now (aside from my Best Buy card). The GoFundMe at this point is going to pay down those debts so I can crawl out from under the increasing interest payments along with keeping collection agencies off me for the medical billth as Medicaid sorts out what older billth they'll pay. Any help is appreciated!
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