I had planned a trip out to College Station, TX, to visit my son and his family around the first of the year. I bought the airline tickets before I broke my foot. (One saves money if one purchases the tickets a month or more in advance.) I’m all about saving the money!! I also bought the tickets online — saving even more money. I did have the presence of mind to buy the “Travel Insurance”. The carrier that was offered to me was through “Access America”. I think it cost about $35 for the travel insurance. The airfare was around $300. Not too bad.
I called them to file a claim a couple of weeks before my trip was to begin. They answered the phone promptly and then e-mailed me the claim forms. I had to fill out three pages and the doctor had to fill out two pages. My doctor charges fifteen bucks to fill out any paperwork. I don’t blame him, insurance companies are not reimbursing like they used to. I faxed the paperwork to Access America (including a copy of my “Travel Documents”). I haven’t heard back from them yet. Hopefully, I will get reimbursed for the cost of my airfare because I broke my foot and was unable to travel. So, we’ll see.
An amusing anecdote here is that (before I broke my foot), my boyfriend had also purchased airline tickets for us to go to Vegas. He was so excited for us to go!!! I genuinely felt badly when I made him go there without me. (A hooker accosted him when he was out there -- but, that’s another post.) I did not feel guilty that he didn’t get reimbursed for my non-used airline tickets. Because when he purchased the tickets I had suggested to him that it might be a good idea for him to spring for the insurance. He decided not to buy the “Travel Insurance”, and I just shook my head in wonder. I didn’t really care because I wasn’t paying for the tickets. (That’s the kind of bitchy girlfriend I am!!)
Well, it is six weeks after falling in a hole and my foot is still not healed. My analysis is that I’m now about 75% healed. When I was first injured, I figured that I’d only be out of commission for about a month at most. I still couldn’t put any weight on my foot after two weeks. I went online to check if that’s normal or what. What I read seriously disturbed me. Most everyone that wrote about it said it took them ten to twelve weeks to recover. Some took as long as 16 weeks!!! I think Wikipedia said something about it taking 8 weeks to build up the 5th metatarsal.
I figured out that the most important thing to do when one breaks their 5th metatarsal is to STAY THE HELL OFF OF IT!!#%&*!!! When I did my research, I discovered that those who did not stay off their broken foot took much, much, much longer to heal. I am impatient to be back on my feet and normal again. Not to mention feeling fat!!! My wonderful boyfriend even said that boy, I had better get ‘back in the gym’ again. (This is coming from a man that looks like he’s seven months pregnant.) It didn’t really hurt my feelings because: (1) He will always be fatter than me. And (2) He’s right and I am more anxious to be able to work out than he even wants me to.
The other day I started to do research on how one could possibly work out with a broken foot. There isn’t a lot of exercise that I can do with a broken foot. There are no real videos to follow. There were a few videos of some “wheelchair exercises”. But, the lady used weights on the thighs. Not a good plan for someone that seriously wants to stay off of it – for it to heal. Also, these were only like 3-minute videos with some general information. Someone did mention something about the “Chair Exercise” video. So maybe I should look into that. Some people said Pilates is good for it. I confess I know very little about Pilates and I think maybe I might need some special equiptment for it. Didn’t I read that the movie stars are always doing Pilates?
I am able to do those (Girl) push-ups. So, that’s good. I am even considering making my very own work-out video for gimps like me. I suppose watching this “Jump-Rope” video didn’t make me feel any better:
Hello!!! My name is Meghan and I am an insurance agent. This sounds like a “Twelve-Step Program”. Yes. I know the jokes, the put-downs, the boring insurance agent charisma. They’re probably all true. We insurance agents ARE a boring lot. My plan here is to inform people that read my blog about insurance. Almost everyone buys insurance locally. So, most likely I will NOT benefit from your purchase of insurance. I suppose if that my blog gets read enough then some insurance companies would like to advertise on my site. That’s not my fault. I still intend to be brutally honest and give my fair (or, maybe not so fair) evaluation of the various insurance products.
I have sold insurance products of various types for about six or seven years. My partner and I even had a short-lived radio show about annuities. I take orders in person and over the phone. I am recently divorced. They say that single women live longer than married women — but, married men live longer than un-married men. Don’t say that I understand that at all!! It doesn’t make much sense to me. It seems as if being single for women would give us more to worry about. I STIIL worry about my ex-husband and is he eating right and how could he possibly take proper care of himself without me around??