Yesterday was a rough day for me.
Most setbacks make me slow down and figure out what's next, but yesterday, I kind of just stopped.
I receive my primary medical care from my preferred provider, United Indian Health, for almost everything. Unfortunately, most of our local health care providers are owned by Providence. So, if I don't have a Providence based provider, I struggle to book appointments with any of their specialists or testing facilities.
When Providence said they would drop me as a patient, if I didn't make an appointment to meet my 4th new provider in 4 years, I felt like I had to do it.
She scheduled me for lots of tests. Because the code they used was a wellness code Medicare and my insurance didn't pay. Now I have a fortune in medical bills.
I tried for hours to get the office to fix the code, but they have no interest in being helpful.
I am determined to go in person next week to fix this and will give up on Providence as a provider.
Ever hear of the Matilda Effect? Maybe you know women researchers who have experienced it? Here's an interesting history about it.
"The Matilda effect is a bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists whose work is attributed to their male colleagues."
@AskPippa That has happened to me so many times I lost count. Being the only woman (often) in a group of men, it was striking. If taxed on this, the men would look baffled and hurt.
If I scoop up all the little fur tumbleweeds drifting around the house, I should have enough to make a new cat.
But then I'd have another cat, adding to the creation of even more fur tumbleweeds.
Maybe this is where cats come from.
(And that's just from the shedding from 2 longhair cats in a week!) 🐱 :ablobcatblinkhyper:
A waxing gibbous moon framed in the fork of an eroded branch of a Pinus longaeva (Great Basin bristlecone pine) at ~3,048m (10,000ft) in the White Mountains of California. (This is a single frame photo made by a human, #notAI.)
It turns out most dogs don't actually like being locked up in a cage each day as many North American owners do. But they can be trained to pretend to like it.
We had many #dogs when I was growing up. Nobody crated their dogs then. And, the dogs did not look for a den-like place to sleep, which I think speaks volumes to what their 'nature' is when it comes to the ideas of dens. Dens are mostly for small pups in the wild, until they are old enough to not need that extra protection from predators. And when they are crated, they can't do their job of going to the window to check out a potential threat -- which must be really frustrating.