{"id":184,"date":"2008-08-16T22:50:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T05:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2008-08-16T23:20:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T06:20:14","slug":"health-saga-update-or-advice-for-those-thinking-of-starting-a-company-and-getting-health-insurance-independently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/16\/health-saga-update-or-advice-for-those-thinking-of-starting-a-company-and-getting-health-insurance-independently\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Saga Update, or, advice for those thinking of starting a company and getting health insurance independently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our saga of trying to find a family insurance plan continues.  And has worsened.  <\/p>\n<p>In trying to find a silver lining to it, this occurred to me.  Remember back when Will was born, when I was pumping 6-8 hours a day, crying every single day, sometimes several times a day, sometimes so hard and desperately that Paul thought I had found the baby dead in his crib, and believing that my newborn baby hated me so much so that I didn&#8217;t want to hold him sometimes &#8230; remember all that?  Well, THANK GOODNESS no one (let alone me, the social worker) had enough insight to consider whether or not I should have talked to someone about post-partum depression!  Yes, I may feel guilt for the rest of my life that I didn&#8217;t put it all together in my head and missed all that wonderful bonding time that can never be replaced with my first born, but hey, at least THAT isn&#8217;t on my medical record!<\/p>\n<p>The lesson: unless you are physically bleeding or turning blue, don&#8217;t ask for help!  You may live on to become successful enough to start your own company &#8212; and then you&#8217;ll regret it!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>My hair loss has tapered off.  I didn&#8217;t want to say anything and jinx it, but in fact, it seems to be almost back to normal.  It&#8217;s happened over the past week.  I&#8217;ve still got one heck of a lot less hair, but at least I won&#8217;t be celebrating Christmas with a bald head.  Two weeks ago, I started taking a multi-vitamin because I started to wonder if I was experiencing a deficiency (it dawned on me that if I saw a woman with hair loss in my work, I&#8217;d think &#8216;zinc&#8217;).  So, maybe it was zinc?  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to work in health anymore.  Too damn disheartening.  Too darn ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our saga of trying to find a family insurance plan continues. And has worsened. In trying to find a silver lining to it, this occurred to me. Remember back when Will was born, when I was pumping 6-8 hours a day, crying every single day, sometimes several times a day, sometimes so hard and desperately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}