Things have been a little tense around these parts of late. For the last several weeks, Ja.son has been battling headaches, which for us, is never a good thing. My gut said it sinus infection based on the location of the headache. I started to freak a little (or a lot), however, when he started throwing up earlier this week.
After 5 visits to the pediatrician (seeing a different doctor each time - sigh) over a three week period, an allergic reaction to amoxicillin, nearly $300 in co-pays and prescription costs, and missing 8 days of school, we finally have gone over 24 hours without a headache.
It has been real. I am downright exhausted.
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I feel I must again assert my disdain for my insurance company. Apparently if there is a gap to the "effectiveness" of this insurance company's coverage, I will find it. The latest was getting a script for the same antibiotic on the weekend and finding that I cannot fill an identical script within a 6 month period at an out of company pharmacy. (Mind you, there is no other option for a weekend in-company weekend pharmacy in our area, and I had gotten both scripts on Sundays at the urgent care.) I ended up having to pay full price for the script of antibiotics because I couldn't drive an hour (each way) to the 24 hour in-company that is available to have it filled and I refused to make my boy wait until the next day for relief.
I hate them.
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While we were dealing with all of the worry over Ja.son's headache, I had another issue with the boys' teacher over some of her questionable decisions regarding Sh.awn. I sent her an email explaining my concern. Her response was to call another IEP team meeting (Although not unheard of, a teacher calling a full IEP team meeting is something that just isn't done around here. I can't imagine many people are happy with her right now because of it.) because I called her out on what she was planning on doing. Frankly, at this point enough has happened that I have little respect for her as a teacher, which is just sad.
Things will likely be interesting at the meeting. It's on Wednesday.
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I also went to a large conference in Palm Springs at the end of February. A fellow colleague and I presented an activity that we do. It went really well; we had well over 60 people at our 7:45 am session (and they all stayed the whole time). I was also able to go to some other good sessions, and I learned a lot.
So, later that afternoon, I ran into the principal
that is at my boys' school.
And oh yes he brought up what's going on with Sh.awn!
I tell you, only I would manage to be 4 hours away from home and still manage to run into drama. I was minding my own business, too!
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16 days until Jack turns 4. I can't even deal. It's going too fast.
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Is.aac got a ticket yesterday for having his cell phone in his hand while he was driving. He says he wasn't on it, but it didn't matter. There goes somewhere around $160 in a blink of an eye.
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