Frustrations

Why is it that computer troubles occur on days when one is feeling out-of-sorts and least able to face the challenge of dealing with them?

First, it was accessing my email. I’d had the same problem yesterday, but after numerous attempts to log on and not a small amount of swearing, suddenly I was in. If I had any sense, I would have left my computer running instead of turning it off last night, which is my practice. I think I was persuaded at some time that it was advisable to do so. Humph.

Today, no amount of persuasion and cursing has helped and reluctantly, I sent off a message alerting my contacts to the demise of my old email address. I have had to fall back on gmail which was my backup. I don’t much like it, but no doubt I will adjust.

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Fighting with email occupied half my morning.

The rest of my time was wasted struggling to log on to WordPress. After a long pause, the response I got: “Whoops. There is a systems error.” So I waited and tried again. And again, until I decided it was not a WP system error but a problem with my computer or provider.

Everyone knows that attempts to fix such things are apt to lead to worse trouble! In the good old days, you could get a live person on the phone who was generally able to talk you through what needed to be done, but now we are stuck with inadequate text communications with AI.

Yesterday, I began treatment for osteoporosis to which I attribute the soreness and severe headache I awoke with this morning. Computer issues are not the cure!

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However, I am a stubborn woman and I was reluctant to admit defeat.

Hoping to figure out if the problem was with my computer, I had tried logging in on my tablet, but that also failed. What did work was my phone, on which I could at least read. I can launch a prepared post that way, but I can barely write a text message on my phone, so composing a post on it is more than I would ever consider.

Eventually, I found my way into WP through a backdoor by clicking onto a link in a comment that came through to my gmail address.

Just as I achieved this triumph, Grant came home with two items of mail. One contained news of an increase in real estate tax. The other was from Medicare, who don’t send good news and this was a notice indicating their denial of a claim for treatment by pain management.

Pain Management are supposed to get clearance prior to treatments and presumably they relied on the book of words, which indicated that it was covered, so Medicare tells me that I am not liable for the charge, which is a relief, but not really, because that clinic has helped me a lot. I don’t want them not to get paid and I can hardly expect them to keep me on.

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It set me wondering again, about whether I should give up Medicare. What good is it, if they don’t pay my claims? The money saved from their premiums would be enough to cover my few medications and other fees. It is very tempting, but it would be reckless, I suppose, since you never know what lies ahead.

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Here’s the piece of music I fell back on for soothing:

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