Yeah, it said the booster is given after age eleven, but they're all supposed to have five shots before entering school. Who knows? Sara's in third grade, so she should covered (i.e. she's eight).

Sometimes the vaccines don't work for someone, or don't get to a therapeutic level. Which is why we count on herd immunity, and part of why the whole anti-vax thing is so damn infuriating.

Man, I'm three weeks behind on The Good Wife; clearly I need to catch up.

Yes! yes you do. (there wasn't a new one last week, I think, if that helps) Me, I need to catch up on Downton Abbey

All in all, it was a waste of a day off.

this is why I have yet to go to any of the diabetes educational sessions. Toddson, there is a book that comes highly recommended (I have not had a chance to read it yet) - Reversing Diabetes and while that may not be the result for everyone who reads the book and abides by the eating schedule, etc., I think it can help.

(Booster shots are not usually on the mandated list, and almost no adults are up to date.)

In California they made sure everybody got a booster this summer before they came back to school because it's gotten to be such a problem. I had to take Emmett in for his shot.

le n, thanks for the recommendation. Luckily, I'm on the low end of the scale and can probably keep it under control with diet and exercise. It's just annoying to have someone come up with such an impractical proposal.

this is why I have yet to go to any of the diabetes educational sessions

I haven't gone either. I am still not convinced that I have diabetes, because my A1C was 4 but for some reason my fasting blood sugar was 130. I should probably return to the doctor at some point and or start testing myself. I started eating in a more diabetic friendly way, since I figured being healthier couldn't hurt, but I found, like Toddson, that although I am fat, the diabetic recipes had way more calories than I normally eat. I ended up basically replacing my simple starches with a lot more greens and more complex starches- and a lot of things in this book: [link]

I hate that a good deal is staring me in my face for my kinda pricey face care products, but I'm stocked up on all my key components. THIS IS JUST WHAT THEY WANT, DAMMIT.

God, I *wish* my blood sugar was 130. My doctor would do jump-skips of joy if it was 130.

I went to a meeting with a diabetic counselor when I was first diagnosed--gosh, ten years now, I think. She was maybe 21, 22, bored to tears, and she droned through the standard warnings re: nerve degeneration, damage to extremities, blindness, etc. "Of course," she said with a shrug, "you'll probably end up losing a leg or your eyesight anyway, but we want to delay that as long as possible . . ." I don't remember the rest of her spiel. But at the next doctor's appointment, I told my doctor, a terrific woman who is currently the head of the clinic where I first met her as a new intern, about said counselor. Dr. Springer gasped in horror and said, "What was her name?" And she left to make some phone calls.

I don't think Little Miss Boredom had a job at the end of the day.

edit: And ten years on, my eyes show no sign of diabetic-related deterioration and I can still feel my toes--at least as well as I ever could. (Though seeing them is a sometime thing.)

An increasing number of parents are opting out of vaccines: [link] Of course, that means if the child with pertussis breathes on a baby too young for vaccination, that baby can get whooping cough. Whooping cough is often fatal in babies, particularly since it's so rare that doctors don't recognize it. (I recently read The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear, about the antivax movement. It's a book that makes one cry and throw things.)

Woohoo! Well, a qualified woohoo--so, if any of you remember, I was bitching and moaning at the end of the year because they took away six vacation days and one holiday, at my work. And basically everyone emailed and said "WTFF?" and they said they were just "aligning the policies" (mind you, so far we haven't seemed to get any UPsides to this alignment).

So they just sent an email saying on review, they realize that for some people who just joined that's a large change in compensation, so they're giving us a 1.15% raise, effective Jan 1 (which is when the PTO thing became effective). Now, granted, I figure if you take away six vacation days, which is over one working week, I should get increased compensation of 1/52nd of my salary. Which is closer to 2%. But still. Qualified wooho!