Happy New Year!

Let's see... OK, back in December I finally got a revised billing from the hospital where they applied my insurance from the church. To my dismay, I discovered that I now owe the hospital over $60,000 instead of the $10634 to the hospital and another $2800 to the surgical practice. Apparently the hospital applied the insurance rate on my initial bill and some program applied a massive discount due to my being the victim of an attack. That discount no longer applied when I tried to use insurance, and there was a $50k cap applied on my $110000 bill. So I have to send a signed letter to the hospital to have them unapply cash payments made by insurance such that the other discount then applies. I have since applied for assistance from some agency that offers assistance to trauma victims and am now waiting for a response from that. Hopefully the financial concerns from this can be finally dealt with.

As to my previous post, I decided to force things a little and made a few comments about things being different a couple of weeks ago. Did not detect any particular enthusiasm to broach the topic by any of the folks who were in the group, but I was pleasantly surprised when one of the newer members asked me about after the serving time last week. It was nice being able to talk about it.

I don't think it's me, but I need to be open-minded about this. Chesterton suggests that it's easier to defend something when you have a specific point to refer to while other things are otherwise indefensible because pretty much everything in creation shouts in its defense. Am I really on a different level in how I see things, or is it more that I've finally caught up to everyone else?  Have I been blind in a sighted world and now excited about something everyone else takes vision for granted? I doubt it, but the question needs to be asked.