In my previous post, I wrote about a nymph that was taking a long time to emerge. Last night, it finally surfaced and began climbing up the chopsticks I had set in the tank. When I went to bed, it was about halfway up, so based on past cases, I expected that by morning it would have become a dragonfly and be resting on the curtain or the wall.
When I got up during the night to use the bathroom, I thought maybe I could catch it in the act of emerging, so I checked. But by then, it was no longer on the chopsticks. In the morning, I found the nymph flipped over in the water. Perhaps it lost its strength halfway up, or maybe it slipped. When a nymph surfaces to emerge, it switches from gill breathing to lung breathing, so if it tries to return to the water once emergence has begun, it dies. Another failed emergence. Now I’m down to just one nymph.
Since the seventh one emerged on June 29, I’ve lost three in a row. But the very last one is a particularly vigorous individual—the one that sent two others to the afterlife through cannibalism. I truly hope this one becomes a dragonfly and soars into the sky.
Then today I received a registered letter from my life insurance company. Wondering what it was, I opened it, only to find a notice titled: “To customers who may be eligible to receive additional benefits.”
It said I might be entitled to benefits for the colon polyp endoscopic surgery I underwent back in 2002. To explain briefly: in 2003, when I had my second polyp removed, I learned for the first time that benefits were payable even for same-day surgeries. So I applied for both that year’s procedure and the one from the previous year. But I was told the 2002 claim couldn’t be paid because too much time had passed.
If I can get the payment, I certainly would like to, but the problem is that I’d have to go back to the hospital and obtain another medical certificate. That sounds like a real hassle, and besides, would they even issue a certificate for something that old? And even after all that, there’s still the possibility the benefit might not be paid. Am I the only one who feels this is rather insulting?