In good news, I’m dealing with significantly less pain than I was a couple weeks ago.  In bad news,  my sleep is just as bad as ever.  Friday night I literally didn’t sleep at all.  Typically I am wide awake sometime early morning, 3 am-5:30 am. I take a vicodin because I’m almost always hurting when I wake and my doctor thinks that even if I don’t realize I’m hurting my body is still feeling it (which is also what the doctors at Rush thought when I had my sleep study).  Then I try to sleep or if the pain is too much do something until it kicks in and then try sleeping.  My lung pain has seemed especially bad lately.  Which might be part of why I’m waking up.  I’m still dealing  with payments from the LAST time, so I have no idea how I’m ever going to afford another nerve block.  I also can’t imagine how tough life is going to be without it.  Ugh.

I’m working on getting things settled with Bank of America.  They want to see what my paycheck looks like once they start taking out federal taxes before we decide on repayment.  I’ll probably lose the account, which is unfortunate, but better than bankruptcy.

So I got a collection letter today from Lake Forest Hospital, for a bill I’ve already paid. A check they’ve already cashed.  So I’ll have to call tomorrow morning and tell them they need to call off the collection company.

Still owed:

  • $99.00 – Illinois Secretary of State – Car registration
  • $22.08 – Lake Forest Hospital – x-ray
  • $10.66 – Lake Forest Hospital – labs
  • $114.87 – Mercy Medical Center – ER visit – pneumonia and H1N1 (more bills from this are expected)
  • $355.80 – Dr. Albers, DDS – repairs to old work, crown, etc. (a wonderful dentist!)
  • $100.40 – Rush Surgicenter – my last nerve block

Of course that doesn’t even begin to deal with the issue of my credit cards.  I’m STILL waiting on DHS.  They were supposed to reschedule me and instead sent me an application, so that’s another call I have to make. And I also have to call All-State to schedule an estimate for the repair of my car from when that woman hit me in December.

Who knew that working part-time while “unemployed” was actually a BAD idea?

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