Originally Posted by GirlAnachronism

Me too. Luckily I'm pretty sure the whole system (well, HMOs in any case) is designed to prevent you from getting any kind of medical care, which makes it easy to ignore **** and hope it will go away.

Doctor decided that surgery is probably the way to go for me--we agreed that a second opinion is probably a good idea, just to make sure we're on the right track.

This week: two more breathing tests on two different days, chase my ENT doctor down for the referral for the second opinion, get the insurance referral from the primary care, schedule and get the second opinion. Sometime in the next six weeks: sign the authorization for surgery, get 'medically cleared' (whatever that means), schedule and do the actual surgery, recover, quit my job, move cross-country. I'm kind of skeptical that it's actually going to happen at this point.

If I didn't need the insurance from my job to get all this crap paid for I would just quit now, because dealing with all this is starting to feel like a full-time gig.