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ei34 · September 5

Phew, we made it! Wishing all a restful weekend.

ei34 · September 5

Hanging at the kids’ school right now, we arrived at 6:40 to set up their teachers’ Back to School breakfast. Heading over to my own school around 7:15 where our PTA is actually setting up our back to school breakfast. So it’s a very breakfast-y morning.

Later today will be our first pizza and a movie night of the school year, it’s one of my favorite school year traditions. Weekend is pretty light, thankfully, I want to visit two of my aunts who are just getting older, plus my mom. Cooking, cleaning, mass and maybe some baking will round it out.

charlotte989875 · September 5

I love pizza & movie night- when did you start doing that with your kids @ei34? I’m trying to balance bedtimes and routines with M and that being such a fond memory for me too!

Week 1 at kindergarten and we’re all doing good! M is great (although a little sad he can’t take his brother bear stuffie with him). We’re slowly getting more information from him about what he’s doing! Back to school picnic tonight. H has a wedding In Pittsburgh tomorrow I’m not going to so I’m solo parenting a bit this weekend.

CharmedPam · September 5

That’s great that M loves it so much @charlotte989875

i’m going to see Hamilton on the big screen tonight, so I’m exited to see that. I’ve never seen concerts or musicals at movie theaters but I LOVE the idea (if it’s filmed right) for those who can’t afford (or don’t want to pay) the real thing (ie; the eras tour), other than that - pretty chill weekend with nothing for Saturday and a county fair on Sunday.

ILoveBeachMusic · September 5

We did movie and pizza night with our kids. DD has started doing it with hers. Such fun!

I got my flu and Covid vaccines this morning. I was a bit worried that I would be denied the Covid one since I'm not 65 yet but they didn't ask any questions. So glad since we are going to France next month and will be on the plane for 8+ hours (flying through Frankfort or Munich).

Getting my hair done this afternoon. I'm tired of the look I've sported for quite a while but I have curly/wavy hair that has a mind of its own. I'm going to try and grow it out (it is short layers now). I'll see how long I can stand it before I chop it off again.

No big plans for the weekend.Just enjoying the weather.

banana468 · September 5

Chiquita has an infusion next week and I need to push for the vaccine recommendations for both her and the rest of us.

Big camping weekend. Chiquito goes on his first overnight with Scouts without DH so this is BIG. I'm hoping its a positive experience.

Chiquita and I are Girl Scouting it tonight and probably tomorrow. She wants to wake up at 3 AM Sunday to watch the canonization of Carlo Acutis but...it's SO EARLY. I'm trying to get her to compromise to watch the recast at 3 PM.

short+sassy · September 5

Now I'm jealous! I'm sure there were times we had a pizza and movie night when I was growing up, but it wasn't any kind of tradition or remarked on like that.

The tradition I do remember fondly is Friday nights with my dad. He cooked ramen with hot dogs and we watched Dukes of Hazard, lol. My sister and I loved it! I still love ramen, even when it comes out of a package.

My mom worked a part-time job for years at a bank. Her work hours allowed her to drop my sister and I off at school and pick us back up again. As such, she was the parent who took care of us the most. But Fridays were an exception, and she worked later than my dad did. School pick-up and dinner were on him. Hence, ramen!

To be fair, while my dad wasn't a savant in the kitchen like my mom was, he wasn't helpless either. He could cook tasty, basic dishes.

ei34 · September 5

@charlotte989875 Enjoy the picnic tonight and good luck with the solo parenting. I started the Friday night movie when the kids started preschool. (Bedtime was 7 so the movie started at 5:30 or so, lol)
@banana468 good luck to Chiquita next week (and to Chiquito this weekend...DS cannot wait to camp with the boy scouts once he's old enough that I don't have to go. He's in 5th so he has a year to go. Camping is his dream but his cub scout troop still says the boys can't go without parents, and this bad mom doesn't camp)
@CharmedPam I love concerts and musicals on the big screen! Enjoy!

short+sassy · September 5

@ILOVEBeachMusic, I do not understand AT ALL why COVID vaccines need prescriptions now. And that you're supposedly not going to be able to get a prescription unless you are over 65 and/or have a comorbidity.

I sure remember during the pandemic that there were a whole lot of perfectly healthy and under-65 people who died. Or exposed a more vulnerable coworker or family member to COVID and that person died.

banana468 · September 5

@ei34 I didn't camp until Chiquita joined Girl Scouts and often it was camp or we lacked adults. It's an interactive group and I've learned that if I have a cot I can make the most of it assuming the weather cooperates.

@short+sassy explain to me like I'm 5 why my 14 year old could qualify and receive a Covid vaccine and now we need to jump through hoops for the rest of us. Because contagious respiratory infections only stay with the one person in the house who gets them.

short+sassy · September 5

banana468 said:

@ei34 I didn't camp until Chiquita joined Girl Scouts and often it was camp or we lacked adults. It's an interactive group and I've learned that if I have a cot I can make the most of it assuming the weather cooperates.

@short+sassy explain to me like I'm 5 why my 14 year old could qualify and receive a Covid vaccine and now we need to jump through hoops for the rest of us. Because contagious respiratory infections only stay with the one person in the house who gets them.

I just looked a little more into it. It was the FDA changing their guidelines that then opened the door for STATES to decide if the COVID vaccine needs a prescription and who qualifies for one. But this might turn into a fight between Democratic governors and King Trump/Prince RFK, Jr.

I don't usually wish ill will on people. But I hope they both contract COVID and die. It would be for the greater good. Maybe that would make the other Republicans STFU about vaccines and back off, so ALL Americans can more easily get the protection they need again.

States also make those decisions about other vaccines, but prescriptions are rarely needed for the other ones.

MyNameIsNot · September 5

short+sassy said:

banana468 said:

@ei34 I didn't camp until Chiquita joined Girl Scouts and often it was camp or we lacked adults. It's an interactive group and I've learned that if I have a cot I can make the most of it assuming the weather cooperates.

@short+sassy explain to me like I'm 5 why my 14 year old could qualify and receive a Covid vaccine and now we need to jump through hoops for the rest of us. Because contagious respiratory infections only stay with the one person in the house who gets them.

I just looked a little more into it. It was the FDA changing their guidelines that then opened the door for STATES to decide if the COVID vaccine needs a prescription and who qualifies for one. But this might turn into a fight between Democratic governors and King Trump/Prince RFK, Jr.

I don't usually wish ill will on people. But I hope they both contract COVID and die. It would be for the greater good. Maybe that would make the other Republicans STFU about vaccines and back off, so ALL Americans can more easily get the protection they need again.

States also make those decisions about other vaccines, but prescriptions are rarely needed for the other ones.

I'm rooting for death from measles for RFK. But honestly, anything will do. I guess I'm going to ask about an MMR booster at my physical. I know there's something about if you got them before a certain year they don't last forever, but I don't know if that's 70s, 80s or what.

Nothing much else going on. Work has been a mess and it's going to stay that way.

banana468 · September 5

Also Florida with its surgeon general advising to remove vaccination guidelines? Yeah I guess that's a state I'll never live in.

If only we weren't actively dismantling a federal agency that oversaw guidelines for schools where a vaccination schedule was proven to work and be effective at preventing the spread of previously very contagious illnesses. Kids are going to die, immunocompromised are going to get sicker and with cuts to federal insurance programs and closings of rural hospitals, it's a recipe for absolute disaster.

short+sassy · September 5

Ah! I just remembered that states also decide if a prescription is needed for syringes. Most states don't require one, but there are a few jerk ones that do.

Technically speaking, a pharmacy can also choose for themselves to not sell syringes without a prescription. But they better be doing it across the board. Every time. At every location. So you know national companies like Walgreens don't have any such policy,

Which brings me to some stories.

In Louisiana, you don't need a prescription for syringes as long as you are buying them for a medical purpose. Because of this, pharmacists can ask your purpose for buying them. That's fine. I mean, it's not. But I'm not mad at the pharmacist.

However before the ACA, there were times when I didn't have medical insurance. I couldn't afford to go to the doctor or get lab work. My prescriptions all expired, at some point. Thankfully, there are two old types of insulin (fast and long acting) that can be purchased without a prescription, so I was getting by.

But I had 5-6 occasions where some AH pharmacist or pharmacy tech bold-faced LIED to my face about Louisiana's prescription requirements for syringes.

This is how a typical conversation went. I never raise my voice because I know I'm right and I don't have to:

Me: "Hi, I'm a Type 1 diabetic and would like to buy a box of 8mm, 31 gauge syringes that I will use to take my insulin." See? I already tell them the medical reason to hopefully save time. They ask if I have a prescription and I tell them I don't, that I will be cash pay.

Them: "I'm sorry, we can't sell syringes without a prescription."

Me: "You and I both know that's not true. I don't need a prescription if I'm buying the syringes for a medical purpose. Which I have already told you is to take insulin."

More often than not, then they ring up my box of syringes. But harumph and say, "I'll make an exception this time, but next time you need to bring a prescription."

I wait until after the transaction is over because I'm not stupid. But then I reply with a smile and a little chuckle, "No." (short pause) "I don't."

Walgreens was where I had my worst experience. My usual tactic didn't work and she still refused to sell me syringes. Now she added it was "the store's policy", but still wouldn't let go of that it was also state laws. I politely requested the phone number for Walgreens legal department, so I could verify that they do allow individual stores to discriminate against people with disabilities. Somehow, she "magically" remembered that she could sell me syringes without a prescription.

short+sassy · September 5

banana468 said:

Also Florida with its surgeon general advising to remove vaccination guidelines? Yeah I guess that's a state I'll never live in.

If only we weren't actively dismantling a federal agency that oversaw guidelines for schools where a vaccination schedule was proven to work and be effective at preventing the spread of previously very contagious illnesses. Kids are going to die, immunocompromised are going to get sicker and with cuts to federal insurance programs and closings of rural hospitals, it's a recipe for absolute disaster.

Sadly, sadly agree.

We were talking in my local subreddit that, now that FL has dropped vaccinations for public schools, Louisiana will soon be next (sigh).

It makes me think about a friend I had in jr. high. I don't remember what medical issue she was born with, but it made it contraindicative for her to take the usual childhood vaccines.

She had to RELY on herd immunity to stay safe.

I have two adult friends in the same boat. Though their issues happened in their 20s, so they at least already had their childhood immunizations.

levioosa · September 5

I’m so angry about medicine and science in this country I almost can’t focus. People are going to die. And people are too fucking stupid to realize that one of the reasons vaccines work so well is specifically because we have herd immunity. That is about to be null and void if we have whole states opting out of vaccine requirements. It’s already a crisis in rich crunchy communities which refuse. Vaccines are not all that profitable (in the grand scheme of health care profit). Health insurances are going to deny coverage eventually and then soon companies won’t even manufacture the vaccines at appropriate levels because it won’t be worth it. I am sickened.

Weekend plans sound fun! I tested negative for COVID today so I’m on my way to drop off Tapioca at her forever home. It was so so hard not to do a takesie backsies but I couldn’t do that to my friend and her family. They’re so excited for her. Poor Aurora is going to miss her little buddy too.

ILoveBeachMusic · 11:09AM

banana468 said:

@ei34 I didn't camp until Chiquita joined Girl Scouts and often it was camp or we lacked adults. It's an interactive group and I've learned that if I have a cot I can make the most of it assuming the weather cooperates.

@short+sassy explain to me like I'm 5 why my 14 year old could qualify and receive a Covid vaccine and now we need to jump through hoops for the rest of us. Because contagious respiratory infections only stay with the one person in the house who gets them.

I've been told by a friend who is in a similar but different situation, if you live with an immunocompromised person you can get the vaccine. Her husband just finished radiation and I think will undergo chemotherapy for cancer and she just got it. She's a year or two younger than I am.

@short+sassy the only answer I have to your question is the worm brain eaten RFK Jr. Also while yes the CDC changed the recommendations, he told them to do so.

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