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After the pocketbook emptying January calendar packed full of dental, vision, orthodontic, psych, and medical appointments (and the accompanying prescriptions), I was relieved when February arrived with relatively few such engagements and expenses. It seemed prudent not to focus too much on the out-of-pocket expenses of those first harried weeks of 2009 because it would just leave me blue over the outpouring of green rather than pleased to have knocked out so many necessary tasks involved in the care and keeping of the five of us. Along came the letters from the providers that our insurance company opted not to pay last year according to our contract, and I was unable to remain in the pink after finding that we were wrongly in the red.
Until I made a call to the company that administers the Mother Ship's flexible spending (while trying to document last year's medical payments) only to discover that we have money in our account that can be used to reimburse qualifying medical, dental, vision, prescription, etc. expenses for the first three weeks of 2009. Money that had already been deposited which neither we nor the Mother Ship will receive back if it is not utilized for our family's health care expenses. Hee. Hee-hee. Hahahahahahaha. We saw every provider for everything under the sun in that three weeks. I hope to be laughing all the way to the bank having discovered this potential pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I do hope we will be much closer to being back in the black when all is said and done.