I was up most of the night working again. Well, trying to work anyway. This morning I went into Group Health for a couple of appointments back-to-back. First I got an echocardiogram. It was interesting, or would have been had I not been so tired. My appointment was so early most of the employees weren’t there yet. Mysterious. Afterwards I got hooked up with a heart monitor that I will wear for a while so that they can see if my heart is malfunctioning unbeknownst to me… mainly when I am sleeping, I suppose, but tonight at least I probably won’t sleep much again. I have five leads attached to me now so I feel very cyborgish.
They did not charge me the usual copay for the appointments. I probably will get a bill later. I have been paying much closer attention to such things as I will probably be paying for my health insurance out-of-pocket once Amanda finishes residency and I am considering whether to just get some type of catastrophic coverage.
I almost got out fast enough to take Amanda to work, but she decided to just bus in. I went home anyways to space out a bit and to avoid rush hour traffic. Piglet was pleased because the house was cold and she took full advantage of my prone position on the couch. A bit later I made it back to work. The president of the company thought Amanda had gone into labor or somesuch since I had worked at home yesterday and was not around in the morning.
Amanda had a couple of interviews yesterday. One is a short meeting with a place, and one was with a Group Health satellite location. She got to see the “dark side” as one of her attendings put it (i.e. not a community health center type place). I did not look too much into their info, but the pay and benefits of the CHCs were completely not in the same league. Alas, they had already offered the job to someone else (just that day?) as they would have offered it to her. So she would not be tempted. They might have another position open up, though.
Time to wrestle with work more. Things are not cooperating.