Bad Timing

Friday my husband called our insurance company to look into adding our daughter...only to be told that they never received our last payment and that we were cancelled three months ago. Somehow they neglected to tell us that little bit of info back when it happened. Our payment has vanished and so far they are refusing to reinstate our policy, despite the fact that we are willing to drive a payment to them. Nice.

Today we went to our immunization appointment to get our second round of hep shots...only to be told that they made our appointment one day too early (based upon when we got our last round...a certain amount of time has to pass before the next round) and that there are no more appointments this week.

Did I mention that we're leaving for Ethiopia in 5 days?? Yep. We have no health insurance and are only partially vaccinated. How's that for comforting?

We did get an exceptionally kind representative at the insurance co. who is advocating for our case to get us reinstated. In the meantime, we are reapplying -- which is what we're been told is our only option -- but that would mean we won't be covered for another month. We're also going to be buying an interim insurance plan to cover that gap. Its not cheap, but its cheaper than what our medical bills would be without insurance. We also have travel insurance, which would help in certain instances. Judging by our luck, we'll probably need it!

As for the vaccinations, well, we can call early Friday morning -- the day before we leave -- and see if there are any cancellations. We would have to go into downtown Seattle to the travel clinic however, which would require paying for parking AND probably paying double what we would have paid at the regular clinic for the shots. Oh, and hubby would have to miss more work.

Combine all this with the craziness of regular life these days and I'm almost to the point of laughing. Almost. Please pray for us. There is still much to be done.