August Greetings! May this blog find you balanced🧘, with your Medicare Insurance keeping you above the sand☀️🐫.
If you need help 🙋♂️ with Supplements, Medicare Advantage Plans, or Part D Drug Plans🤔, please e-mail Gray, Gray@TheBig65.com or book a time on my calendar.
Gustave did a great job holding up his family during our adventures.
Twenty one years ago, his father, Romain, was a high school exchange student, from France, living with us in Atlanta.
After the school year ended, we took him and our young children on a trip to the Great Sand Dunes in southern Colorado. That’s our youngest by the sign, read the words carefully.
How strange to see the same sign, so many years later, withered and worn. “Time waits for no man” and gettin’ old ain’t for sissies, right?
We camped near the dunes, watched the stars, talked about life, and how time passes.
The boys went crazy over Chef Boyardee pasta, (not a staple in France).
We were well prepared, plenty of supplies for smores🪵🔥🍡🍫, and even an extra lighter, just in case.
When camping, it’s good to have a back up plan⛺.
Thanks to Stan here in Colorado, we are reminded this strategy applies to Medicare as well.
When a client was preparing to leave for a routine medical screening, she couldn’t locate her medical insurance cards. The cards weren’t in the regular spot in her wallet😱.
Her husband called while I was at my desk and not in the Sand Dunes, though the call would have gone through to my colleague Gray and he would have resolved the issue😌.
I was able to log in, download a copy, and send it to them, no harm, no foul.
Here’s what Stan wrote to me:
“I guess the lesson learned is never trust your husband with your purse contents! (Turns out, after an ER visit, he had put them back in the wrong place.)
…The other lesson is that you need to be sure you have scanned/electronic copies of all your critical medical cards, readily available, for your spouse to use in an emergency.
Had she been physically unable to find her purse before we left for the ER, I would have been left with no proof of insurance to provide the hospital. ”
Wise words Stan, wise words👍.
We learn from experience.
It’s ok to make mistakes, as long as they are new ones, right😂?
So while you are reading the newsletter:
- Pull out your phone, take a picture of all your insurance cards AND your Medicare card.
- Save a set of on your phone.
- Email a set to your spouse, your kids, or to another person you trust.
- Print up an extra set and put them on top of the fridge (or in a place everyone in your house can find).
That way, next time you’re in the desert, you’ll have plenty of extra water, or soda😆.
And do keep squeezing the juice🍊out of life and look for ways to help others.
If family or friends need help… referrals are the lifeblood of my business.
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