Making me wait for hours to speak with a nurse on the phone so she can tell me she doesn't know what's wrong and I have to go to the doctor? Really doesn't strike me as efficient OR safe. Not quite sure what the benefit is to waiting around to talk to someone on the phone for the same amount of time I could have been in to see my doctor already. But, you know, whatevs. I'll just keep chilling. Call whenever. My chest pains aren't going anywhere.
Best,
Kiersten
Dear Readers,
Please no panicked comments. I'm not dying. Just annoyed.
Best,
Kiersten
Dear Melina Marchetta,
Your book, Jellicoe Road, was nothing short of amazing. I'm sorry it took me so long to read it in spite of all the good things I'd heard. I'm completely in awe of your writing and this book. How did you do it?? It's going on my "Books That Make Me Feel Utterly Incompetent But I Love Them Because of It" list, right by The Book Thief and If I Stay.
Best,
Kiersten
Dear Kaiser Permanente,
Seriously? You're calling me back and putting me on hold immediately...again?? Didn't YOU call ME? Also, I want to kill your hold music. If it had a name, I'd name a character in a book after it and give them the most violent, gruesome death I'm capable of writing.
Also, I'm going to send you a bill if I go over my minutes because you called just to put me on hold.
Best,
Kiersten
19 comments:
So glad you read Jellicoe Road. It is amazing!
The entire healthcare industry is so annoying. You'll probably go see your doctor, get a bunch of invasive (and expensive) tests, and they'll tell you you're perfectly healthy. Good luck! (If I knew the sympathetic face emoticon, I would insert it here.)
Ooh, so sorry about the insurance and the phone calls. Not good.
On a happier note I LOVE the book Jellicoe road. One of the best books ever, and I am in complete sympathy with your feelings toward it.
Make up a name for the hold music. Something ugly with way too many consonants.
Then plot its grisly demise.
I suggest a chiropractor. Your pain could be the result of a subluxation.
Jellicoe Road is fantabulous! But you shouldn't feel inferior.
I wish people would quit recommending chiropractors. They scare the living daylights out of me.
Oh geez, chiropractors. My last visit, about 10 years ago, a 90-pound girlie chiropractor in a white coat leaped on me, thrust both knees into my back and knocked all the breath out of me.
And what an annoying nurse line. Physicians wonder why we all consult Dr. Google so often. Because Dr. Google doesn't make us listen to the Muzak version of Stairway to Heaven.
I prescribe chocolate.
Dealing with insurance companies makes me want to give myself the most violent, gruesome death.
I love Jellicoe Road. When I finished it I wanted to read it all over again. And, yeah, it makes me want to give up writing because I'll never be as awesome as Melina Marchetta.
I don't believe in chiropractors or calling insurance or doctors over the phone...both things scare me. Actually my cousin is in his third year of med school, so usually I call him and ask if I'm dying. He usually tells me that I'm not, so I call him a liar and hang up.
Maybe you should read the follow up to IF I STAY? It will make everything feel better, I promise! (Okay...I could be wrong, but it makes me happy.)
I always get excited when I see it's household memos day.
Waiting. Ugh. Sorry about the thing ( so sucky I really don't want to say it.) Anyway I'm excited to come to the YA Writers Conference in April!
You and I must be in the same place today! The insurance company wants my three-year-old to call them regarding her broken collarbone. I'm pretty sure she's NOT going to file a lawsuit against me, even though it was broken on my property.
Lexi--Yay!! I'm way excited for that one.
Becky--You never can tell. Did you have her sign a waiver after the doctor pulled her from your stomach?
Ok, I have to say a word for chiropractors - the only time I go on a regular basis is while I'm pregnant, and let me tell you, it SAVES me.
On another note, my husband's uncle (who is a world-renowned chiropractor, now retired) says there are only 3 schools that are "legit" (in his book, of course), which makes for a lot of bad chiropractors out there. So I understand where the ill feelings come from. ;)
Hope you find something that works!
Oh, I have no doubt that chiropractors really help people. Just the idea of someone in there, shifting my bones around...I can't even think about it!
I also don't like drugs, though.
Pretty much I don't like anything. Good thing all the tests were clear today : )
You have been initiated on the awesome that is Melina Marchetta.
Now you have to read her other books!
The Piper's Son is going to knock your socks off, but read Saving Francesca First, you'll feel slightly more in the know during Piper's
1. Sorry you're feeling crummy!
2. I am 100% with you in regard to JELLICOE ROAD! Obviously, I love THE BOOK THIEF more than just about any other written thing on this earth, but JELLICOE ROAD is right up there!
Insurance companies are the great equalizers of life. It doesn't matter who you are, how long you've been a customer, how sick you are, how much you threaten them -- they put everyone on hold, just because they can. :/ Good luck, dude.
I'm afraid of chiropractors, too. Coworkers keep saying a chiro adjustment would help my morning sickness but what if (this sounds dumb, I know) it dislodges or harms the baby?
Dear Kiersten,
*LOVE* button because *like* buttons are not good enough.
Best,
Audrey
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