Random Thoughts

This is MIKA magazine’s first issue and I am featured on TWO pages, so cool! You have to download it but it is FREE and safe. I just did and was looking for a paragraph or two of our interview and BAM 2 pages, wihhoo! I hope you will downland it and check it out! http://www.mikamagazine.com/ There is a magazine link and then you have to click on This issue and it takes you to the download. You have to have adobe reader and if you don’t they have a link for you to get it for free. I hope you will share this with all your friends for the mere reasons that I am excited about it! i get to feel special for the day!

Make sure you un-check the google toolbar when you hit download adobe reader if you don’t want it!

Sorry for those that follow on my multiple blogs as this is being posted on all 3 today!

Peace

Tawna

It is yucky and rainy so here are THREE rainy day positive thoughs along with a wonderful rainy day craft fro kids!

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines-Satchel Paige

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow-Jerry Chin

I need these today as it has been raining non-stop for weeks and it is not just a little, but severe weather all the time!

Now for something to do with the kids on the rain today!
 Found a website called Designing Your Affirmations and they have the awesome idea of kids creating positive affirmations on a rainy day. It is crafty, fun, and positive, perfect! I am going to do this with my daughter today. We have been arguing a lot so I know this will help both of us! I will post the card when they are done.
Note: She cannot write more then a handful of letters so I think I am going to have her draw pictures instead of words of positive things!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a positively positive day!

Tawna

I know that it is hard to workout at the end of the day but we are only doing that for him and I wait and at the end of the night, he is tired from doing other things. I get that but that is so how people stop doing their workouts do it all the time. Things get in the way, we get tired, and it is easy to say “not tonight.”

So the past few nights I have been working out by myself and I DISLIKE working out late so starting today I am back to the afternoon workouts during my 1 year old naps. I hate to do that to mu hubby but if I can’t depend on him then I need to do it by myself.

I am tired too and feel worn out but I am still keeping my head strong and keeping on! I hope that he will start back up again but when it comes to this time of year, he just gets busy and I am not sure if I can keep him motivated 🙁 Oh well! Off to my success at least!

I won’t totally blow him off, the nights he does want to workout I will simply do part of the workouts again, no big deal.

Have a wonderful day and thanks for coming by!

Tawna

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My friend Michelle calls me every week or so on her way to work and we just so happened to get on a conversation about children’s well visits. I was taking both my kids in today for their well car visit, so I am sure that is how it started.

Anyway…did you know that there are no more co-pays on preventative care? Sweet!!!
I actually called and verified with my insurance company (not the one that is trying to take back my money for surgery, but our new one) and they verified that there are no more co-pays.

So I went into the doctor today and when I checked in the front office clerk said “$40 co-pay please.” I said, “I don’t think so, would you like to verify with my insurance company that this has changed since Jan. 1 2011?” She quickly said “NO, that is OK.”

So my question is….was she hoping I did not know that? Is this something some doctors offices are doing now? Are they seeing how many people actually no about it and charging them if they do not say anything?

My friend Michelle works in a big hospital and that is how she knows it and relayed it to me. There is now way that the front office girl did not know that seeing that is near the end of April and this bill was signed in Sept 2010 and in force since Jan 1st.

Anyway, I am very happy that the co-pay is gone for preventative care! There are still co-pays for ill appointments but that is cool with me since we usually don’t ever have ill appointments!

If you have not heard of this please call your insurance company today and verify so you are not being charged when you are not suppose to be!

Peace everyone!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Tawna

Sometimes I end up writing the same themed post on a couple of blogs of mine and today is one of those days. They just fit hand-in-hand.

My Random thoughts blog I posted today about how my insurance company wants to deny my surgery from December AFTER they already approved it. They actually told me today that they made a refund request to my doctor and so far the hospital is not getting paid the $52,000 owed for it. My whole detailed post is here http://www.btrbb.com/2011/04/what-heck-am-i-going-to-do-this-is-bad.html

How this affects my positive thinking is HUGE!
I am trying so hard not to let this get to me and say over and over “it will all work out.” However to be fully honest (because you know I am) I am freaking sacred! We make well under $50,000 in this house and we break even EVERY pay check. How the heck can I pay this?!!!

I am saying my affirmations today, praying, and trying desperately to keep the smile on my face.

Any suggestions you have to help me get through this mentally, until things are totally figured out is appreciated. I need the psotive vibes coming big time today!

I hope you are all ahving an awesome day!

Tawna

I got a letter from my previous insurance company saying that my claim has been denied. I had InterStim surgery done on Dec 7, 2010 and it was suppose to be covered. I actually told my urologist before the surgery that I could not do it, if it was not covered. They told me “we will not do it if it is not covered.” I said OK, so you will send it through my insurance and if it’s denied you will tell me?” they said “yes!”

Everything was fine and good to go. I had the surgery done and I figured everything was fine. I even called the hospital to make payment arrangements for my 20% and they said that the bill had not come through yet so I could not start making payments yet. Now it is April and still not set.

I got a letter today that said it had been DENIED! OMG,
I just sat there with my jaw to the floor. There was a hug number for what I owe and it is just above $52,000!! yes you read that right 52K!

I immediately called my urologist and they said they got paid back in Feb and to call my insurance so I did. As it stands now she said they actually requested the money back from my doctor and she could not make heads or tails of the “vague” notes on my account. I simply told her, there is no way I can pay this, I was assured the surgery would not be done if it was not covered.

Now I wait for a call back from the insurance company. What am I going to do if I have to pay the $52,000?! Hospitals can garnish up to 60% of your wages. We make under $48,000 a year for a family of 4 and we break even every month. I am just sitting here going, WT….!

Anyway, thanks for letting me vent today. I am literally sick to my stomach. I so don’t know what I am going to do!

I hope you are all having better days!
Tawna

UPDATE posted on 4-29-2011

My daughter, who is 5, had a GREAT time. She laughed, she squealed, she got drenched! She had the best time.

We even found the Easter bunny and for the first time in 3 years she was not too scared to get a picture.

Then it happened….our great day turned into DRAMA!

So she has had this little bump for a couple weeks on her knee. I kept checking it and it really just looked like a little pimple so I left it alone. When I took her to the restroom at the shopping center I noticed it was 3 times it’s size and red. It looked very sore. I could also see the teeniest, tiniest speck of dark brown in the center and thought “that’s odd.” So what do I do..well….I took my finger and scraped it off and low and behold I pulled out a 1/4 inch wooden splinter out. Apparently her crawling and playing on our hard wood floor had taken it’s toll on her knee.

You would have thought I was committing murder in that bathroom stall, OMG! She screamed bloody murder at the top of her lungs and I swear that I heard a couple people walk into the bathroom and then immediately out! I could not get her to stop! She whaled and screamed for 45 minutes straight. Out of the restroom, into the car, the whole way home and then some. She has been limping on her leg ever since! Oh the Drama of a 5 year old girl.

I am sure that people were looking at me going “Woman quit beating your kid!” It was horrible. Not even 2 minutes ago my daughter looks at me and says “Mommy, is it done bleeding?” I said “YES!” She says “oh it feels good then!” Me “%$%^&*R$$@##@!”

Oh the drama. It is over, the swelling is gone and no more bumpy splinter. Lesson learned…next time wait til we get home to harm the children!!

Peace everyone!
Thanks for stopping by!
Tawna

I love this show and I hope that he helps change our government issued crap food to food we can actually pronounce!
I watching this season (only have seen episode 1) and I am thinking WT….LA pull your head out.

If you have nto seen this yet than head over to ABC and watch! I can’t believe how they are pushing him away. We have an “obesity epidemic” and the superintendent and all his little buddies are acting like there is not problem with the food in our kid’s schools? Are you kidding me? Have you seen the processed crap we are feeding our kids? Have they not got the clue that Type 2 diabetes is no long called “adult onset!” Why…well, kids as young as age 5 are getting Type 2 Diabetes! It is because of our stinking processed fast food. And we wonder why we have an ADHD epidemic in the US. I strongly believe that 90% of it is from lack of nutrition.  Not lack of food but lack of GOOD WHOLESOME NUTRITION!

This topic gets me so steamed up! Why would we, as US citizens, take this lying down and let the government feed our kids this crappy food?! This is just another very good reason why we need LESS government and more PEOPLE!

I hope Jamie does something good in LA and that it will trickle down to the rest of the states! If Jamie comes to Ohio I will be first in line to support him!

Go JAMIE!

Peace everyone and happy eating!

Tawna