"Your insurance isn't valid. I think your former employer might have canceled it."
Pre-Op was not how she wanted to get this news. She didn't want to get this news at all. She had worked out with her new job that she would be out for a week to recover. Why would they cancel her insurance?
She texted her old boss to ask him what had happened, and he promised to look into it. She made her way into work and told them of her potentially canceled surgery.
She was a little crushed. She knew she could always reschedule in a few months with the better insurance that she'd get after her new job's probation was over. But it would still be a great thing to be without her tonsils.
She couldn't really blame it on KSL that she'd gotten strep several times in the last year. Obviously something was wrong. The ENT had said that her tonsils were very large even when she was perfectly healthy. He told her that it was most likely the cause of why she wasn't getting quality sleep, still getting sick all the time, not able to swallow and always having a bit of a sore throat. Her dentist had even said that everything he could tell her to improve on was being caused by her tonsils, and having them out would solve everything.
And now, she was being forced to stay in the abusive relationship she had with them. Her old boss texted her to call him when she was at lunch.
"So, the insurance agent called me back to tell me they canceled your insurance. I'm not sure I should have been told that though, since they fired me before he could call me back. Your other co-worker too."
"What?!?! They fired everyone? Oh my god, they fired both of you at the same time?"
"Yep, called us into the office together and everything."
She was in shock. This was far too many things happening at once. She called her surgeon and canceled her surgery. She went to her new job and explained what had happened. She threw herself on their mercy, and they decided to let her work through the week and schedule her surgery for July, their slow month. It was a long time to continue to suffer, but it was better than never getting them out.
She got major survivors guilt. She got out without being fired, and they didn't. She had a great job, one that would turn into a years long commitment, she hoped. Her heart went out to them.
She felt like she was Indiana Jones, and the boulder was racing towards her.
