Last week after I got home from work, I had my shoes off as I was on the couch. I asked Jim if he had checked Bob's backpack from school for any notes from the teacher. He had not. I went to check Bob's backpack and I felt something crawl across my foot. I looked down and I saw that a small scorpion had crawled across my foot. I was near the front door, so I used my shoe to guide it outside where Jim was able to euthanize it. Jim has since sprayed a one foot barrier of pesticide on the ground around the house. Indoors it states it lasts six months. Since the last time it rained here was July, it will probably last close to six months outside as well.
I start on Monday at Scottsdale Shea hospital. I am going to work in the emergency room. It is a level 1 trauma center (Wilson is a level 2 trauma center). I am looking forward to it. Money is good with registry nursing, but I am at a different facility every day, and something as simple as finding a 2x2 gauze can be a twenty minute project at some facilities. It was challenging when I was sent to the "detention ward" at the county hospital - the one where sick prisoners go, but at least the patients were all respectful, and I did not have to deal with overbearing families (patients are not allowed visitors, but they may talk to them via videophone with the family outside of the detention area for a limited time period each day).
Bob is doing well. We have a developmental pediatrician appointment on the 20th. This pediatrician is not a participating provider with the new health insurance I will have through Scottsdale Shea hospital, but I am still covered through Cobra with my old insurance (almost 1,300 for a month of insurance). I am going to find out if I can get future visits covered with that insurance as the ONLY developmental pediatrician that is covered under the new insurance is in Tucson - which is well over 100 miles away. It would be ridiculous for them to expect us to drive that far to see a doctor when there are plenty of developmental pediatricians in the Phoenix area.
Bob had his school pictures taken on Wednesday. I can't wait to see them. It is the first time he has had his picture taken without us. It will be a couple of weeks before we get them.
Jim had a root canal the other day. Of course they called the insurance company and they hadn't finished the paperwork on their end for the Cobra forms. The dentist was nice though and only billed us for what the insurance would not pay for once the Cobra goes through. The dentist we went to in NY always billed us for everything up front and had the insurance company reimburse us. That was part of the reason why we hardly went to the dentist. We had to have the money up front (and there were only two participating dentists and they both had the same policy). Of course I have a severe phobia of dentists and that metal thing they scrape on your teeth. This is enough - I have to change the subject.
Bob says I should write about how he loves school and riding the school bus. His favorite thing to do at school is to play with the train table there, and play at the playground there. He also likes to play with the marbles. He puts them in a hole on the top and they come out the bottom. The marbles are blue and orange and red and white. Bob wants to write something: bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbdddddddxxxsssszzzzzzzzzjjjj
I have to get going. Bob has his annual physical at his doctor's office.
