Have you ever found $5 in your pocket?

You know those pants that have been packed away for several months and you get them out and find out that you forgot you left $5 in the pocket. It feels like you've won a prize! Well, I've had my own version of it this week, only it didn't involve a pants pocket, and the big win was much, much bigger. Not long ago, everyone in our family had dentist's appointments. As Jenna and I were checking out at our appointment, a vague recollection came to mind that we had paid out of pocket for all of our previous dental visits six months earlier. Robby had just signed us up on the University's dental insurance the day before, so the insurance company didn't quite have our information in the system for the dental office to submit a claim yet. The dental office told me to call back in a week or so and ask them to submit the claim. Okay, so I forgot.

Back to a couple of weeks ago, I'm standing at the desk and asking if they can submit a claim for our dental visits 6 months ago. The billings lady informed me that she thought she could, but it depended on the company and whether we had waited too long to submit the claim. "Yikes!" I thought, "That will be one big mistake if I messed this up!"

Well, thankfully I didn't mess it up! Just a day or so ago, we received the claim report showing the full coverage for all of our visits last October. Hooray! Hooray! So we are getting back A LOT of money from the dental office that I had totally forgotten about until a couple of weeks ago. And I mean A LOT! Of the four of us, three of us had x-rays done at our October visits, and two of those three were full set of bite-wings (like 20 separate bite-wing pics - gagging all the way!) Dental visits are expensive! I'm glad that a least this time, the money is coming back to my pocket. Maybe I should leave it my pocket, so I can do a little dance when I find it there next winter!