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I'm sorry to everyone who lives on the entire continent.

My orthodontist tells me I can make an appointment with the surgeon. I call the surgeon. They tell me I need a new referral. I call the orthodontist. They do a referral. I call the surgeon. Referral didn't come through. They tell me about their special unique system we have to use. I call the ortho again and walk them through the referral. I call the surgeon. They say the referral was missing some details so they have to do it again. I call the ortho.

The insurance company calls me about repair shops. I give them the name of the repair shop which I already gave them yesterday. They say they're not in their system but I can use them, but I have to call the repair shop to ask them to contact the insurance company. I call the repair shop and they say the insurance company is supposed to email them.

And he's not lying, and it gets worse. When you request your records yourself they charge you for it. But, funnily enough, I had to request them myself after like a month of trying to get my diagnostic info sent over so my doctor would have record of my EDS and the major surgery I had in 2025. So not only did my disabled, autistic, wheelchair user ass have to spend a month calling people, going to offices, filling out forms, and a whole bunch of admin work that ate up my very limited useable free time and spoons, I ended up having to request the records myself and take them to my non-Banner clinic and then. And then. Banner had the audacity to try to charge me for that.

They refused to do their job for a month and then made me do it and charged me for it. Being a patient is a full time job and I fucking hate it. Don't even get me started on the fucking six month process of getting my wheelchair while I was also prepping for a major surgery. There is ONE company that Medicaid contracts with for wheelchairs and they will not do a single thing if you don't call them first. Took my mom nearly a year to get her chair because they just don't do anything if you don't call them every single day. I couldn't even get into the clinic bcs half the time they don't pick up when you call and the doors were all locked.

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