Well, that issue happened a couple of months ago. I’ve had a Health Insurance, called SUL AMÉRICA or  SULAMÉRICA since I was 12 years old. I’ve never had problems with it. Over here in Brazil you pay your HI monthly. I’ve always paid mine on time, because despite the fact I hate go to the doctors you never know what can happen to you tomorrow. So, as you all know, the second half of last year for me was a complete mess, because of my father’s death. So in August, with all that happening to me, my head burning, everything out or order and in complete grief, I forgot to pay that particular month of my HI. See, once again to tell you, I’ve always paid mine on time. So, in October I went to São Paulo and only got back in the end of the month. When I came back I saw that my HI had sent me a “special” bill saying that I haven’t paid August and I had until 20^th of October to pay it. Of course, I went to the bank straight away to try to pay it, but it was too late and the bank didn’t accept my payment. So the following months, September and October the normal bill of the HI kept coming and I paid them. So in November when I noticed that the bill hasn’t come I called them and what did they say? THAT THEY HAVE CANCELLED MY HEALTH INSURANCE! I got completely mad, I needed that to go to my doctors as I wasn’t feeling well at all, I explained all that have happened to me in the past months and that in August my father died and everything else. So the attendant said to me to fax a letter explaining all that to the department so they could analyze my case. I even faxed a copy of my father’s Death Certificate so they could see I wasn’t making up!  A month later after the deadline they have given to me to give an answer I called them and they said that they analyzed but they didn’t consider the facts so my HI was still cancelled.  Not satisfied with that I went online in their website and sent another complaint, this time I wasn’t so polite and said that that HI company disgusted me for treating their clients like that and all sorts. Another month later (this month, about 10 days ago) the attendant called me and again said “sorry, still got cancelled”. So I said a lot of horrible things and threatened them to go on the internet and those HI associations to tell my story and how disgusting they are.

So now, here in my blog, is the first step of a crusade that I’m going to do against that health insurance company. So, if you are Brazilian and have Sul América HI be aware what they can do to you, how they treat their insured clients and be aware that when you need them the most, they WILL turn their back to you. Am I over reacting? I don’t think so, people, because as you could see I had major reasons to have skipped that payment and my HI level wasn’t the cheapest one, quite the opposite! So you can have an idea, I’m about to sign up with another HI company, also as good as I THOUGHT SUL AMÉRICA WAS and signing the second best level of HI covering, I’m going to put my husband as a dependant, so we can both be insured, and I’m going to pay even LESS the price I was paying for me alone in that old HI company crap! So you can see, those rip of BASTARDS after 14 years with them they didn’t even consider give an exception for the sake of the events. So no, I’m not over reacting in my anger, disappointment and disgust towards that SUL AMÉRICA. And I hope people can read my story and be aware of these facts I just said and really consider that before willing to sign up with them or still keep them as your HI company. I highly consider you change for another one RIGHT NOW!

XxX

Aaaaarrrggghhhh

I hated this year… and I have good reasons to.

Well, its so great have the second entry of your blog saying things that you hated… so the first thing you should know about me: I hate 2007.

This year was crap. Let just say that it all started with a bad New Years Eve Party. I had a major argument with my sister, that ended up involving the whole family: father, husband, niece, brother in law. Well, I’m not going deep in the matter because just remind the whole thing in details just makes me SICK! Ended up not enjoying at all my party (just to get in is expensive), the countdown to the new year was crying (of anger, believe me, I cry more of anger than anything else! Just get into my nerves and I cant help it) and I didn’t stay for very long because just see the faces of the people involved just made me want to jump in their throats…

Anyway, after that episode, I just got in 2007 with 2 major resolutions: NEVER share the same party with my sister again and NEVER wear black clothes. I know in most countries people just don’t care about the colour of the clothes they are going to wear, the whole thing is just BS. But here, in Brazil, the main colour to welcome the New Year is WHITE. I don’t know where the tradition comes from, but I just hate it. I don’t like white clothes, they just make you look fat. So I don’t wear it. Well… most of the time I don’t, cause in 2005’s party I wore a white dress… I shouldn’t have but I just enjoyed the opportunity to wear it because I have done a diet and I was kind of OK with my body (I say *kind* because 99% of women are not OK with their bodies and they never will… welcome to a woman’s life!). Just so you know, the dress is here, I just wore that only time, and its not fitting me anymore =((((( sniff!

Other colours are welcomed to wear as well, each one have its own meaning: Yellow, if you want fortune (MONEY!!!!); Green, for hope; Red, for passion, lust; Pink for true love, romance; Blue for tranquility; and now, for my personal list, Black, if you really want to mess up your new year. People over here have always said not to wear black, because the colour wouldn’t bring you positive thoughts, good stuff. I guess I should have listened…

Back to the 2007 Summary… the days that came after 1^st of Jan were days of hell, until my sister goes back to UK, where she lives. After that, I thought that everything would be back to something close to normal life. Turn out I didn’t get much done, I had to go to a shrink cause of my depression that got worse, after all that happened, and she pumped up medicines that were helping, but got me very lazy and sleepy for the whole day. I was studying to get into a public job (here we do exams to get into one, the government pays better, its all they do good over here, but that’s another story) and I was catching up ok, than the worst thing ever happened: my father had a stroke.

It wasn’t a simple one, in fact he had 2, a mild one like doctors call, at home and a huge one that let him in a deep coma while he was already at the hospital. He stayed there for over 2 months, and it was horrible see him like that and could not anything to help. The feeling of being powerless in those situations is so devastating. He died in 18^th of August. Since then I just feel lost and that I’m not going to make it through. He was a great father, despite all the disagreements we used to have (like all parents and children) I loved and still do, very very very much. I lost my mum 7 years ago. But my father was the one for me (you will understand that through out this blog).

Anyway, on top of my huge loss, I have to deal with every kind of disgusting people, that I just hope that they have their sweet piece in Hell when they do the favour to the world and disappear from it. I’m not going to go into the nasty details for 2 reasons: too depressive and disgusting and because its going to be too long to explain everything. But you might know what I’m talking about , if you have someone really close that died … paper work stuff. And still going as everyday something new and bad shows up, just to make my life greater…

So… how did your 2007 go? Good xmas? =PPP