Jumpy? Me? Never...

[selenay]

Just had about half an hour of blind panic. There was a message on my voice mail that I couldn't quite make out clearly, but they were looking for crackly-sound MySurname to discuss my budget. And the company name sounded a lot like Humira, the drug that I'm waiting on approval for.

My response was to assume that my insurance had turned me down, the province wouldn't cover it and I earned too much to qualify for financial assistance so Humira was calling to find out how much money I had available to pay for my meds. Cue me trying to work out my monthly budget and see just how much I could afford before I cut into essentials like rent, food and gas. I did work out that, if I stopped paying anything into my savings and pension, turned off the cable/phone/Internet and cancelled the pet insurance then I could afford maybe half the monthly cost.

Then I listened to the voice mail again. It was from the oil company, looking for my mother to discuss her budget plan. D'oh!

I think it's time to retire with a book and a large slice of cake.

Comments

[wadjet-theperv.livejournal.com]

Bless you *hug* you're so stressed out and not surprisingly. I do hope it all comes out good and you start feeling better really soon xx

[gmul.livejournal.com]

D'oh! You didn't mention how much if affected your ears! :-)

[selenay]

:-) In my defence, the line was incredibly crackly and indistinct! I was only guessing at it being the oil company on the second listen and it still wasn't clear exactly who they were looking for.

Apparently I was right, though, because Mum called the oil company and they had been looking for her. They don't think our monthly budget payments will cover this year's oil, so they're increasing them. It's likely that we will now have a large surplus at the end of the year. Again.