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[the_rck]

Because we were out of dinner type foods (Saturday is shopping day) and because Scott needed to be prepared to go to work at 3 a.m., we got carry out Chinese food from a place near us. He was kind of appalled by how much it all cost, but we got four entrees, three large and one small, and three vegetarian spring rolls, and two bigger appetizers. (I’m not convinced that the crab cheese had even homeopathic quantities of crab, but Cordelia likes those a lot, and she’ll get two meals out of the side of steamed dumplings.)

UHS won’t give the shingles vaccine to anyone under the age of 60. Scott thought maybe he could squeeze in going there when he’s taking a half day for his sleep disorders clinic visit. He hasn’t tried talking to anyone else, so it remains to be seen how that will go. Apparently the CDC says shingles shots should come at 60, but not everybody agrees. Our insurance will cover it at 50, and, given that shingles can happen at any age, sooner seems better to me. Doing it at 50 doesn’t seem to weaken the effectiveness as far as I can tell from cursory research. It’s just that the odds of getting shingles go up as one gets older. Wikipedia claims that a person who lives to 85 has a 50-50 chance of getting shingles some time during their lifetime.

I have an appointment at UHS on Monday for the pneumonia vaccination. I was extremely surprised to get in so soon. I had to wait weeks for an appointment for my last DTAP. I’m also a little confused. The Aetna handbook we have says they cover the shot, and the Medicare website says that Medicare doesn’t (except under Part D). The UHS website says that Aetna doesn’t cover the shot and that Medicare does. I’m a little worried that will mean I’m left holding the bag on paying for it. I do have a third layer of insurance that might pay for it, but finding out what they cover is challenging. The UHS chart says 'call insurance company' instead of yes or no on the coverage.

I expect I’ll nap later today. I woke up around 7:30 and simply couldn’t get back to sleep. I hadn’t slept all that well, either, so I’m kind of dragging a bit. (And the phone just rang with a robo-call that started out "Congratulation!" before I hung up. I’m sure I won a Disneyworld trip or a cruise to the Bahamas. If I hadn’t already been up, that would have woken me thoroughly.)

We’ve been invited to Easter dinner with Scott’s sister’s in-laws. Part of me really doesn’t want to go, but I really want to keep good relations with that part of the family, and Easter is hugely important to them. We went last year when I had a broken foot and sprained ankle and had to use a walker and not put weight on my right foot at all. (That made buffet style food… challenging. I sat while Scott made my plate according to what he thought I liked which missed some things I actually would have liked.)

Cordelia’s class may end up not doing their overnight field trip due to a shortage of parent chaperones. I keep trying to think of how I could manage it, but I really don’t think that I could. I wonder if looking for some responsible college kids to volunteer would work. Or, heck, I’d pay a college student $50 to do the overnight in my place. It wouldn’t be minimum wage since the trip lasts twenty six hours, but it would be something. But I haven’t got the slightest clue where to start looking for such a person, and I don’t know if school district rules/state law would allow it. The trip is supposed to start a week from Monday, so time is very, very short.

I think I might be able to sleep again now. Of course, I’ve had a good bit of coffee and water, so I’ll likely be up every ten minutes. I really don’t know. Sleep would be good, but almost sleeping and then having to get up is worse than just being up.

Comments

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Good luck with all the UHS stuff.

I’m not convinced that the crab cheese had even homeopathic quantities of crab

*giggles*


Gabrielle

[the_rck]

Thank you.

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Oh how I hate insurance!!! I wish we had single-payer coverage. Surely that would be simpler.

I wonder if the local Girl Scout organization could spare some high schoolers to go along on the camping trip. Maybe they could count as chaperones? Probably they'd need to be at least 18, though, and that would limit the pool of scouts who could do it. But there are a *lot* of local Girl Scouts with experience at leading younger kids on camping trips, so it seems like this could potentially work.

[the_rck]

That definitely seems like something worth looking into. It wouldn't help with the need for male adults (there are only fourteen girls out of a class of over forty kids) to sleep in the cabins, however. But the teachers did say they needed two more women. I'm pretty sure they need to be 18 and to have the standard background check done.

I'll query the teachers and get back to you. I don't know if either of them check their work email on weekends, so it might be Monday before I hear.

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Hm. I wonder if the local Boy Scouting organization could find some males to chaperone, too.

[the_rck]

If the teachers say that 18 year old Girl Scouts would be acceptable, I'll ask our BIL if he knows any Boy Scout troops in the area that might have scouts of appropriate age and responsibility.

[snogged.livejournal.com]

I love those crab/cheese rangoon things. They're so delicious.

Hope things go well with the pneumonia vaccination.

[the_rck]

I don't think I'd want the crab cheese thingies more than a few times a year, but they're very good every once in a while. I think that they're too rich for me to want them frequently.

And thank you for the good wishes.