Toolkit

When I walked in the door the other night, I had a package from my insurance company.  (Secretly, I wanted them to have read my mind and have it be a Dexcom.)  But I digress.  

My insurance packet

This is my new diabetes toolkit.  I have kept it in the bag I bring to work to read during naptime (even though that's usually when I catch up on blogs, write my own blog, be a twitter addict all while cleaning up after the kids and potentially cooking their dinner).  I didn't look at it until yesterday.  The only thing I noticed before that was that there was a pedometer.  I thought this was kind of cool.  I walk a lot at work, so I was thinking of getting one, but there are more important things in life for me to spend my money on.  (I digress, again.)  Today as I was waiting to pick up Girl Genius, I started reading the letter that was included in the folder.  I read this sentence and I started laughing.  I grabbed my phone and tweeted it (clearly) and then I tried to read the rest of the paper.  Now I know that I'm still a "new" insurance person; both understanding and a member, but this still makes me laugh.  I got some pretty great responses and they all made me laugh.  But beyond that first sentence, everything I've seen is pretty sweet.  I took about 6,000 steps yesterday (which included walking the wrong way to the Frog Pond with Girl Genius).  I got a new log book (with not nearly enough space for me to record all my BGs for every day), but it has different tid-bits of information for every week.  There is information on keeping my feet healthy, which includes a magnet so you can put it in a place where it won't get lost.  And last, but not least the Healthwise Handbook.  

How long do you think it's going to take me to read this?

Insurance

I just got new insurance through work, and it's the first time that I'm the one that needs to know what happening with insurance.  Up until now, I've always been covered under my parents insurance.  I work for doctors, so my insurance is better than a lot of other insurances out there.  When I got the first envelope of information from them, my first reaction was "uh oh, I hope my pump doesn't break this year."  There is a maximum of $2,000 on Durable Medical Equipment.  In my mind, I'm nervous.  I know that if I needed to buy a new pump, I could make it work.  That is why I've been saving money since I was in third grade.  This isn't what I want to use it for, but if the need happens, I can do it.  Over the weekend I got a new envelope from my insurance company.  It was an overview of the law changes and what it might mean for me, what might affect me.  This is the one that struck me the most: