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Zeb

US insurance maze. Winning slowly.

Austin, TX · Austin, Texas, forty-one, developer, US insurance maze, winning slowly.

Their journal

44 entries, and Zeb is still writing.

  • No project

    Monday 8 Jun 2026week 84content energy 52 replies

    Week in order: Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back specifically to say so, because nobody wrote this part down for me. Steady, appeal…

  • She noticed first

    Saturday 4 Apr 2026week 75held energy 24 replies

    Week in order: She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the other way round. That is the whole mechanism. My buddy noticed something in my journal…

  • An unremarkable week

    Sunday 22 Mar 2026week 73fine energy 43 replies

    Three things this week. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my medication on the correct day for the eleventh week running. Nothing to…

  • Anchored to the shifts

    Tuesday 10 Mar 2026week 71organised energy 52 replies

    Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Two lines a day in a paper diary. Date, and…

  • The question I had been avoiding

    Thursday 26 Feb 2026week 70heard energy 4

    Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got three answers, which is the best return I have ever had from an appointment. Asked the question I had been avoiding for…

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Recent check-in answers

24 May 2026 — Where are you with your prescriber?

Whether it is safe alongside what I take for my heart.

2 Apr 2026 — What is your smallest ongoing habit?

Lifted, properly, and my grip is coming back.

14 Feb 2026 — What is your body doing that you would like to understand better?

What the actual criterion in my insurer's policy is, in words.

13 Feb 2026 — What is one thing you have stopped doing that you do not miss?

I did the food shop without the mental negotiation about the middle aisle. That has never happened.

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Winning an appeal at the second attempt

Two US members who between them built the working method that became our appeals guide, after Zeb’s first attempt was refused in eleven days.

Zeb and Harlan · since January 2025