good news (and a little venting)

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Registered: 01-01-2007
good news (and a little venting)
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Thu, 01-18-2007 - 12:23am

It's been a crazy day here. My daughter has been sick for the last week (out of school for the last 2 days). I took her to the doc. this morning. She has an allergy infection and a sinus infection. Went to get her antibiotic filled (and her normal meds refilled) and was told that she was no longer on my insurance plan. ( I knew this was going to happen, but thought it wouldn't be until the end of the month.)

I called my ex to find out if it mattered what pharmacy I used for the insurance he carries on her. I also told him that I needed an insurance card and some info about her insurance policy--deductible, copays, etc. He has his wife (the ow) call me. She starts railing into me about dropping her from my policy and how stupid it was, etc etc etc. ( I had talked about it with my atty before I did it.) I just told her that the issue at hand was the medicine that I needed to fill/refill. She told me to use pharmacy B (even though I usually use pharmacy A)as the info was already there. I said okay so I transferred the scripts over. Then I called Pharmacy A to ask a few questions. I was told that some of the issues at hand weren't actually issues so I had pharmacy A transfer the prescriptions back from Pharmacy B to Pharmacy A.

A little while later, the ow called again. I was unable to get to the phone, so I had Lauren answer it. She promptly told the ow that I had filed my taxes and had bought her a ps2. So when I finally got on the phone, I got a lecture on our divorce decree(the only way she was involved in that was listed in the affair she was having with my h at the time), tax laws, and was I going to pay them back for the EIC that I got (they are not eligible for). I had a nationally reputable company prepare and file mine, I told her. I had explained the situation to them and I'm sure they knew a lot more about the tax laws than both of us put together. I wasn't talking to her about this. I hung up on her. (Still had not loss my cool, btw.)

A little while after this, I called my attorney to get his take on the deposition (Spanish Inquisition) Friday. He said that he thought I had done very well and held my own without losing my cool. We FINALLY have a COURT DATE set for March 5. He's hoping we can get everything settled/wrapped up before then, but it's set just in case. He's not happy with the fact that my x and I settled on a new (higher) child support amount and signed the papers the last of November and for some reason I haven't received that new amount yet. He's going to write a letter to the other attorney inquiring as to why I've not received any money and recommending that my ex cut a check for the amount of child support that is now past due. After I filled him in on the ow's actions/harassment, he said that there is no reason I should have to deal with her at all. Anytime she gets on the phone in the future, I should promptly hang up on her. There is no reason she should be involved in any of these proceedings, etc. In the letter that he is writing, he is also to state that she does not communicate with me in any way.

So when I got off the phone, I was in a much better mood than before. I'm beginning to catch a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel. Although I did have to spend $120 on medicine at the store to get all of her medicines filled/refilled and $20 for the insurance copay.

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 3:56pm
Yup!

Karen ~ wildlucky4me ~