Updates

ERA results got held up because the lab was missing paperwork. My nurse is out of town and apparently the one filling in let something slip through the cracks until I called on Thursday and she followed up on Friday, so now they have everything and we'll get the results by early next week.

The mail situation is resolved, for now. The adrenaline rush and stress relief from taking out my pent up anxiety was more cathartic than any cry I've had in the past few months.

One of the resumes I sent stuck: I have a phone interview scheduled for tomorrow.

I've come up with an excellent compromise for my gym dilemma. I realized I was willing to spend the $99 to avoid being locked in for a whole year, but I still had the travel time issue. So I decided to buy a step to work out at home. I used points to buy it so it didn't really cost anything. It was one of the packages being held up in the mail so I only got it on Friday when I picked everything up.

The medication billing error was escalated to the director and they came back with a reduction of 50%. It makes me believe that they recognize the mistake is on their end. I appreciate the reduction. I'm undecided if to let it be and pay it or continue to fight.

I'm happy to report that my plan to lose weight is on track. I'm down 2 lbs from my 20 lb goal. That's 10% and I'm pleased. I'm counting calories using myfitnesspal.com and every day is hard but worth it. I weigh myself daily but only count the Sunday readings for official measurements because of expected daily fluctuations. Overall I'm two lbs down and happy with it. Next week I hope to report another two lbs down.

Badass

We haven't been getting our mail for a few days and even after calling the post office a few times I was told nothing was being held.

On Friday I happened to bump into the mail carrier and saw it wasn't our regular guy, so I'm thinking, "Ohh, ok. It's a noob who doesn't know what's going on." I asked her if she's been delivering all week, thinking it's a simple mistake. She said no that today is her first on this route but that our house has a hold on it. I'm like huh?? She's says, "Yeah and you have a few packages waiting. There's been a hold placed on 8/11 with no end date - just until it's picked up." I'm like, I know there are packages, I've been expecting those!!! More than that I was waiting for important paperwork from the clinic to start our next cycle. Us not getting our mail was potentially delaying a cycle. So instead of taking out my wrath on her, I thanked her and said I'll contact the post office.

So I called the post office and the lady who picked up was like oh yeah Mr. Blank put a hold on this address. I tried not to lose my shit on this lady.... I said he hasn't lived here in over 6 years (two owners ago), why are you holding my mail at his request?? So I told her I'll come by to pick up MY mail today and that she should take the hold off.

Fast forward to two hours later. When I'm able to take off work, I get to the post office and as I'm walking in a man is telling the manager that "Congress is going to hear about this" and he left. In a split second, I knew. I look at her, make eye contact, and ask her, "Was that Mr. Blank?" She said yes and I went after him.

In the parking lot I yelled out his name and he turned around, saw me coming and kept walking to his car. So I walked after him and yelled that he better stop using my address or I will call the police. He tried to take a picture of me because he was saying he'll call the police on me but his hands were fumbling with the his flip phone and it didn't work. I was so worked up I didn't even care, but I still had the presence of mind to take a picture of his car for the license plates but he didn't even have any!!! So I went back in the post office and filed an official compliant and picked up a weeks worth of mail.

Turns out he was holding my mail because he is waiting for paperwork to renew his license. Apparently he's been committing mail fraud with his prior address, my current address, until now. I don't know why the post office allowed this to happen but I put a stop to it and will continue to follow up to make sure it doesn't happen again. I filed a claim at the post office and also contacted the Maryland Vehicle Administration to file a complaint there.  For good measure we also put a lock on our mailbox, just in case. 

I felt like such a badass yelling at him in the parking lot. All the stress and anxiety I've been feeling all week that I was planning to take out on the poor post office employee who tried to explain this travesty was taken out on this guy. Clearly he is not 100% and it's one thing to commit fraud, but when it directly affects me and my life, the gloves were off.  He was directly responsible for me not getting my mail from the clinic. Getting between me and my babies?? Oh hell no. I came out swinging and he had a target on his shitty face.