Our little village in Illinois really has terrific programs, not to mention that incredible library system I mentioned. They were also offering H1N1 flu shots free to young children. We always got our flu shots free there. Tiffany could hardly wait to take KC to get the shot. She'd been waiting a month but then the night before, KC came down with a case of hives.
I'm very sorry to admit she's inherited that from me. I used to get it for no identifiable reason. I attributed it to stress. If my resistance was down and I got upset, I got hives. It was sort of an early warning system. I get hives, I go to sleep, no more hives. If I didn't relax myself right away, I could end up in the emergency room. I didn't know about Benedryl then. Did they even have Benedryl?
Yesterday, Tif brought KC for her H1N1 vaccination and mentioned how she'd gotten hives the night before. They said she should call her doctor to see if it was OK for KC to get the vaccination. She called the Chicago office and they said to bring KC in. She did.
When they trekked into the doctor's office full of coughing, sick children nobody admitted to telling her to come in for a case of hives that was already gone. The doctor looked at her and sent her home.
This all cost Tif over a hundred dollars for the quick visit (lousy health insurance... but that would be another rant), lots of gas and NO H1N1 flu vaccination.
Not a good Friday for them...
Ah well, at least my little monkey is ready for Halloween!
But my all time favorite so far was not really a costume but a snow suit that her doting Uncle Jonny sent her. She reminded me of a little Eewok.
Oh no. I hope neither of them gets sick from the doctor's office. I used to get hives as a child, but it's been a long time now.
ReplyDeleteBut WOW a hundred dollars? Our health system has a lot of problems but at least our children are cared for free, no matter who they are; doctors will even come to see them at home if they're sick 'after hours'. I'll count my blessings now!
Hopefully she´ll be ok without the shot!
ReplyDeleteShe looks adorable in her little monkey suit!
I was so shocked by the cost I forgot to say how cuddly and GORGEOUS she looks in her monkeysuit!! Happy Halloween!
ReplyDeleteshe looks adorable. They were saying the little ones need 2 doses, then they were saying maybe 1 is enough.
ReplyDeleteI would find teaching young kids stressful, but you were a teacher for over 20 years. Amazing! Hope life in Hawaii agrees with you and no more hives.
ReplyDelete$100 for a dr visit? Wow!
ReplyDeleteOi! The last place a healthy person needs to be is in a doctor's waiting room! I hope this all comes out better than it started.
ReplyDeleteI would be terrified to get the H1N1 vaccine. Flu shots always make me horribly sick.
Oh! And the baby looks adorable. That monkey suit makes her look extra cuddly. She seems to be quite taken with her costume as well!
ReplyDeleteWhat a miserable day for both of them! And $100???? That's totally outrageous! I refuse flu shots every year because the one time I let myself be talked into getting one was the one time I had the flu!! I do hope the rest of their week (and yours) goes better! And KC does look adorable in her costume!!
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So sorry about the miserable day for Tif and KC! $100 for probably what, 5 minutes if that? However you have the cutest little Halloween monkey! Hope she has a wonderful Halloween!
ReplyDeleteyes, that's a whole can of worms...health care and flu shots...hope things work out.
ReplyDeleteTo Susan at Stony River...we also got a $35 for an after hour doctor call when KC had a 103 degree fever in the spring.
ReplyDeleteKC is loving her monkey costume and loves trick or treating...we've been 2x already to Halloween parties and are doing another one tomorrow. She's getting all the candy for Daddy. :)
Geeeeeeeez! I hate this stuff. There are shortages of the vaccine across the country and it's just another instance of our failure to have decent, affordable health care.
ReplyDeleteThat said, your lil darling looks so precious!!!
Kay;
ReplyDeleteI would not go to the Dr this week because I didn't want to sit in his waiting room with all the other sick people.
We don't have the H1N1 yet....not sure what the hold up is!
Hope you are all well!
PS;
ReplyDeleteThe monkey suit is so cute....!
you both look so cute in that photo.
ReplyDeleteAloha, Friend!
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How cute is that monkey suit!!! Susan is so lucky to have gov't. health care in Ireland! I'm jealous. We have so many stubborn people here who won't listen to reason. I can't believe she had to pay so much for nothing. Hope no one gets sick.
ReplyDeleteI love that last photo!
ReplyDeleteMy grandkids and my teacher daughter got their flu shots today after having to wait weeks for more vaccine. I'm relieved.
Tom and I got our seasonal flu shots last week. We are not priority for H1N1 and that's OK. Let the kids and young mothers have the limited supply.
That $100 "office visit" sounds like a rip off, totally unnecessary, but they have to pay anyway.
Your little ewok looks wonderful. We may complain about our health service, but as Susan said, it's free. And generally pretty efficient. The vaccine is about to be distributed to children, health service staff and other vulnerable people in the next week or so - and in spite of the huge added cost to the NHS bill, it won't cost anyone a penny (apart from the taxes we pay of course, but that's another story!)
ReplyDeleteShe looks adorable in that monkey suit...the prettiest monkey i ever saw.Sorry to learn about her hives and a failed H1N1 vaccination....my daughter too had this problem ,later we found out that it was because of commercial citrus fruit juices and one particular food preservative...it is so severe that we keep an emergency drug with us wherever we go,i even provided it to the school she studies.
ReplyDelete1oo bucks is quite a price ,specially when she didn't even get the shot,soon this vaccine will be in our govt hospitals for free or at a very minimal cost.But we must thank God for her safe recovery from the hives.
She is adorable!
ReplyDeleteHi Kay! Definitely not a good day for them. I would have been very upset with all this.
ReplyDeleteKC Is a cutie in her monkey costume. Lisa
Aw, poor kidlet and poor mommy. I used to get hives when I was younger from nerves too. Now it's antibiotics that do it. Not fun at all. Love the Ewok!
ReplyDeletenice monkey costume for Halloween..
ReplyDeleteLove the photo of you with the little Ewok!
ReplyDeleteThese are the stories that tug at a mother's heart. It is as though we have some sort of string (maybe the umbilical cord stays attached somehow) keeps us tightly connected to them. I always feel bad days after one of these incidents/incidences...whatever. I hope all works out with the flu shot soon.
ReplyDeleteKC is so cute in her outfit, just adorable.
Oh boy do I feel for you. I am written up by NIH for hives and had them since I was a wee child, sometimes attributed to allergies; other times, no reason that probably was emotional stress or physical stress on my system (Benedryl sometimes works, but often not. My skin with hives is still the place where "stuff" that has happened to me shows up. Sometimes the only thing that works is prednisone which is a heavy duty medicine with lots of precautions.) For us, too, I have passed it down, in at least one form, to my daughter and wish it were not so.
ReplyDeleteI hope the flu doesn't hit her and she feels better soon!