[Adalaide]

I've been going through a veritable hell with my insurance lately. It's August and I'm really close to my out of pocket max for the year so I'm trying to cram as much as I can in before December.

I went through a review process for Calmare therapy. It was denied based on the fact that out of the three providers in Utah, the only one that I could reasonably get the therapy from (and therefore is the one who filled out the review papers) is a chiropractor and not an actual doctor. My insurance doesn't want to pay for it because of that. Fortunately they do let me have as many reviews as I want, and said they may approve it based on additional evidence. The office offers a free consult with an initial session to assess whether it's worth perusing or not, so I'm going to do that to show it works, then jam the review full of research info.

But that's not the exciting news. The exciting news is that I just got off the phone and found out my insurance will, without question, pay for ketamine. A doctor up in Salt Lake City does it which is only 45 minutes away. It's 3-5 days, depending so I'm having my husband get FMLA paperwork so he can file for it and get the time off without issues or risk to his job to drive me back and forth for a week. I'm so excited that I have at least one option that isn't letting a doctor cut me open and stuff a zapper in me. And I'm hoping that this will help me need less pain drugs too.

Frustrating though that they'll pay for this, but not the $1500 for Calmare. What the heck is wrong with a company when they'll pay God knows how many thousands of dollars for a dangerous drug infusion but won't pay a fraction of that for a completely non-invasive, non-dangerous therapy. Morons.