At 11:03 PM, Anvilcloud
Just thought I would drop by to say hello. I have read your last few posts and must come by again.
Sounds like you're in a horrific school or at least a school with many horrific staff members.
Can't believe all the rhetoric about you're relatively innocuous Bush comments. Say what you want; it's you're blog!!!
Yeay! Go Hillary!
Your story about giving up chocolate for lent reminded me of my mom and how she gave up chips for lent last year. Something must have lit a fire on her ass after that because she went out and bought a treadmill and lost 40lbs last year too. I forgot to ask her what she is doing for lent this year...
sorry...not suggesting you should lose weight there..just made me think of my mom and her story about how lent changed her life :)
Im jealous you have the will power to give up chocolate. I gave up trying to pretend I can resist it!!!
ok...just thinking about your comment on my blog about having the epidural for TJ and that it costs 500 bucks! (and you were charged twice for the first one that didnt work).
I hope you dont mind me asking, and if you do, compeletely ignore this comment, but my curiousity has gotten the best of me.
What does it cost to have a baby in the US?
And what would happen to someone like me who now requires weekly appointments and ultrasounds and a fetal echocardiogram every three weeks?
Well, Karla, I know that if you are in the network for your insurance, and you go to their approved places, then it's usually, I think, about $800 or so, all-in-all. TJ cost a LOT more than that, b/c the only hospital we could go to in our network with my old insurance was known for staph (sp?) infections with pregnant people, and just a horrible hick-town hospital in general. I didn't know anyone in Lanc. who would have sent me there in good faith. So, we went to Charlotte instead, which was about a half hour away, and a WONDERFUL hospital. However, it was right on the border of SC and NC (but considered NC), so it wasn't a part of our SC network. My insurance paid for some of the costs, but much less than it would have if in the network. We decided it was much better just to pay extra and not take the risk, than to go to the other hospital. I'm really glad we chose that, also. Later, when TJ was about a year old or so, he had a really bad fever in the middle of the night, and we opted just to take him to the LA hospital. It was just an all-around bad experience! I don't know if most people pay the $500 for their epidurals, or if I'll have to pay for mine this time. I do know, though, that we haven't even finished paying for TJ yet, so I hope they charge us for very little!
Kewl. I'm glad you had a better day.