You Know you're REALLY a grownup...

[binaryalchemist]

When you think "Tax Refund" and feel guilty about keeping about five bucks so you can maybe get a cheeseburger--and the rest is pre-earmarked for BILLS.

I spent a very unpleasant afternoon writing checks. After rent--I rent from my friend so I pay half of my rent twice a month--I spent virtually my ENTIRE PAYCHECK on medical bills, perscriptions and paying towards balances on cards long since cut up. I did completely pay off one anesthesiologist and the pathologist who unbeknownst to me checked me for intestinal cancer when they apparently biopsied me during surgery last October.

Yeppers---no laptop, even if I start a kitty. I need a kitty to pay some travel expenses for Confluence and AWA. Damn it--I can't work any harder or live much closer to the bone. I had unplanned vet bills for Meep and unplanned medical bills for me...and not a lot of sales commissions.

What makes me really goddamned furious is that I work with and know people who are single and claiming brothers or sisters or friend's kids as dependents and getting huge refunds--and getting away with it. I sometimes get 400.00 or so--they are getting a couple of GRAND. And they don't get caught, either....no justice, eh?

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[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Overhaul of the medical insurance system would be real nice right about now, wouldn't it? (Especially when they make you pay for procedures you didn't know about - that's just not right.)

[binaryalchemist.livejournal.com]

I'll never forget the time I went over a hospital bill and noted "pregnancy test"--when I had written earlier on my history of previous surgeries "Hysterectomy", which I had at 27 because of early stage malignant cells found in a PAP test.In fact, when they ask me 'when was your last cycle" I love to tell them the number of YEARS rather than days! But I raised hell with the hospital and the charges were dropped. I had no idea they had tested me for cancer--nobody told me there were any tumors or whatever found...really rather pissed about that...