Irritating Week So Far & It’s Only Tuesday!

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:21:26 +0000

I’m hoping things look up for the rest of the week. Monday, Luke had his 2 year well visit with his pediatrician. He was supposed to get 3 vaccines, but I talked the doctor into only doing 2. He has been pretty flexible as far as the vaccine schedule is concerned. The rest of the appointment was the doctor basically lecturing me about how Luke is no longer a baby now that he is 2. He said that we have to start disciplining and taking away his “baby” things and habits. He also said that parents with children with “special needs” tend to baby their children longer and they end up not being productive members of society. I told him that it’s kind of hard for me, especially since 90% of the time, I have to carry Luke. I told him that I can’t just put him down in the middle of his parking lot and tell him to crawl or scoot into the building. It’s easy for a doctor to sit there and say these absurd things to a parent when they have never had to parent a child with “needs”. I hate using that term, because society automatically assumes that if you say your child has special needs, that they have some sort of mental or learning issue. Luke does not. If anything, I would be more inclined to say that he is handicapped at this point more than special needs. Ok, that was me going off on my tangent about special needs! The doctor just really rubbed me the wrong way with this whole discussion. I’m not sure if he was singling us out, or if he says the same thing to all first time parents of 2 year olds.

Today we had mommy & me class. There are only 2 more classes left in this session. The teacher gave us the registration information for the next session. All of the other kids will be able to move up to the “all by myself” class. That class is like an intro to preschool. The kids get to go for 2 hours by themselves, once a week. The teacher told us that Luke will not be able to go because he isn’t walking. There are 2 teachers doing the class with probably 7 other kids. I don’t see why one of them can’t assist Luke. I was told that we can re-do mommy and me again, but they moved it to Wednesday for the next session, which is the same day and time we do PT.

I’m just really frustrated because it seems like the world isn’t set up for children (or adults for that matter) who don’t fit inside the “normal” box. I don’t think it’s fair for Luke to be left behind. What if, God forbid, he isn’t walking in time for Kindergarten? Would he not be able to attend the “normal” classroom? It makes me so angry and sad at the same time to think that he is missing out on things. He is a very smart and happy boy otherwise.

Safe From H1N1…I Hope.

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:40:02 +0000

Our county health department finally opened up another H1N1 clinic. They are doing once weekly appointment clinics at their office as well as weekend clinics at the high school.

I made an appointment for Luke for today. I didn’t even bother making an appointment for myself because the way their website reads, healthy adults are not in the “at risk” category and couldn’t get it. I ended up being able to get mine today also. Luke got the half dosage pediatric shot, while I got the nasal mist. I made sure to ask the nurse if Luke’s was Thimerosal-free. He will have to go back in 4 weeks to get his second dosage. I am just hoping that they will have enough supply for him to get it, otherwise he will not be fully protected. His pediatrician’s office called me back today to inform me that they finally got their supply as well. I had them remove Luke’s name from the list since we got it from the health department instead.

I was really on the fence about getting the vaccine for any of us since there is so much controversy over whether or not it’s safe, tested etc. I really feel like in this situation you are “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”. It’s not even peak flu season yet and the number of cases of H1N1 is continuing to climb. I guess at some point you have to surrender and put some trust in someone. I feel a little relieved now knowing that we don’t have to keep avoiding public places or keep bathing ourselves in hand sanitizer.

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Irritating Week So Far & It’s Only Tuesday!

Safe From H1N1…I Hope.