<p>That would be priority mail…2 or three days, I think. edit: Just checked site…says 2-3 days</p>
<p>My friend’s S is at WashU and has H1N1. Someone mentioned a way to get chicken soup delivered. Does any one remember how to do this???</p>
<p>I think I would prefer that trip when she is older, some of her friends are going. i really dont want her to go. i think she has mixed feeling and with all the swine flu I would prefer to have her closer. Its so far with not greathealth care. I have never been one to let my kids go easily, but my older D had some great adventures once I was able to.This child has more issues going away too.
Another question too, I found out from D1 school she needs a chicken pox booster and am not nuts about her getting these shots flu etc… all at once, i prefer to space them out. school will not let her register for school next sememster. right now she has another bad cold ear infection so no vaccines now but what do you think of this? Will you have your kids vaccinated?</p>
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I am finished with my fourth and last round of the nasty chemo a milestone reached!!!
still a way to go but it is truely great to get that one behind me. I do well with all the “normal” side
effects, its the strange one that get me. I have always been this way! and I am such a boring person i dont get it!!!
anyway dont like to post too much detail as this thread is really for other thanks for the good wishes. I thought I would post something positive!</p>
<p>P.S. i dont think it takes long for the flat rate its getting through the schools’post I have found. but D goes to a bigger school</p>
<p>fireflyscout - glad to hear about those good grades!</p>
<p>S (home on between-terms break) has yet to check on his. Too busy vegging! On the one hand, I want to know. On the other hand, I’m enjoying the vegging too!</p>
<p>Is this the website NMn? [Send</a> a gift of chicken soup delivery with matzo balls - Grandma’s homemade Chicken Soup, Get Well Gifts](<a href=“http://www.grandmaschickensoup.com/]Send”>http://www.grandmaschickensoup.com/)
PS… I did a search for that flat rate thing and couldn’t find it. Now I just feel stupid but thankful you did the work for me. Thank you!</p>
<p>Downtoearth: Funny you should bring up the flu vaccines as just last night I was talking with a whole bunch of health care professionals - renowned cardiologist, internist and head of nursing at a major hospital. I asked about the group of people balking at being required to get flu shots as if it impinges on their constitutional rights. They all agreed that the flu vaccine - and that means any flu vaccine - is very very safe. They are all made the same way - and believe me when I say the conversation got very technical for a soccer game!- that I now, more than ever, really have no issue getting it as soon as it is available. While I would definitely talk about combining this with chicken pox or something else, but to hear this cardiologist talk last night, and then hear about Missypie’s friend, I think it would be more harmful to not be immunized. But then, when it comes to medical anything, I can only speak for myself.</p>
<p>Also… to the whole travel question. It seems you’ve answered it and honestly? There seems to be nothing cloudy about it. Good for you.</p>
<p>my son gets allergy shots, so at last week’s visit, he, my d (home couple days for fall break) and I received the H1N1 vaccine. glad we did considering the concerning stories we’ve all heard.</p>
<p>Congrats DTE! You know about taking and celebrating each milestone as it comes. I was wondering and am so glad to hear you’re done with the final round!</p>
<p>I was ok with geek<em>son going to Europe in the summer, at 17. I’m not sure how I’d have felt about Asia, and 16 to 17 was a quantum leap for him. I think it depends on the kid and on the nature of the trip. If it were one of those “People to People” things, I’d say emphatically not. If it were with people I know and trust, and I were confident they knew their way around the place and knew how to handle a potential crisis, I’d be more inclined to say yes. And it would depend on what sort of misgivings the kid expressed. Is your daughter eager to go, just a little nervous at the distance and novelty? Is she “street smart” and pretty independent at home – taking the bus or subway, handling her own money, looking out for herself physically – such that she could keep her wits about her if she were briefly separated from her group? (geek</em>son did get lost at one point during his trip, but was able to navigate his way back by landmarks) I think those trips abroad are huge confidence boosters, as long as they end reasonably well. But I would share your reservations, given the situation you’ve described, unless the daughter is unusually savvy for her age.</p>
<p>On vaccines… I’m not a big fan of them, especially the multi-disease cocktails, and I’ve read that the immune system needs time to rebound from one before getting the next. I got geek_son the bare minimum he needed in order to go to school. Thankfully, his college didn’t require any extras, although they strongly recommended the meningitis vaccine. He’s 18; I told him it was his choice; he said No thanks. That’s my boy. Neither of us has ever gotten a flu shot; neither of us will get an H1N1 shot although they’ll be highly available at Mudd. Just not our thing. If your daughter really, strongly does not want to get the chicken pox booster, she might be able to get a waiver – no shot, but she agrees that she’ll be sent home if there’s an outbreak. Some schools offer it. Search her college’s Web site for “immunization waiver form” and maybe you’ll luck out. Even if she plans to get the booster, a waiver might at least buy her enough time to get over her other shots first and still register for her classes. Just a thought.</p>
<p>I’ve always done the shots for girls and H works at a hospital so he always gets flu shots. I am planning on the h1n1 shot but keep puttting it off since my kids made me watch that scary movie with Will Smith and the cancer vaccine, “I am Legend” ! :eek: I still have nightmares from watching that! Don’t know why that made such an impression on me. :o</p>
<p>yes I thought about that movie for a long time. Everytime I went to my car in the early morning to leave for work, I got so creeped out thinking about those “things” I think it will is prudent to think about what you are actually taking and why. My kids get flu shots as they have asthma and being a health professional i am required although on LOA now.
I think my 16 year old is wavering and wants to go on the trip. My h would let her go. AGHHHHH. Why did he have to pick that location what is wrong with Europe??? It is school sponsored, some home stays, 10 days.
My chemo is not done just the first 4 are one kind and the next are supposed ly more tolerated. (a different kind) this is actually a standard protocol. so the worst are done with. (cross your fingers) But this one was a huge hurdle to get through!</p>
<p>NorthMN… did you read about the potential lawsuit brewing from hospital personnel not wanting to get the flu shot? While we can get regular flu shots, I don’t think our doctors office has H1N1 as they sent an email out yesterday saying for everyone, in a nutshell, to quite bugging them and they’ll let us know. </p>
<p>Geek_mom… I have never gotten a flu shot before and the kids only a few times when regular exams would have lined up. We’re not a huge flu family (meaning it’s rare that we get more than maybe a 24 hour bug). But in this case, there is something about this H1N1 that does make me slightly uneasy. Have not heard that school where s is is offering shots of any kind as yet, although they did mention they had flu shot clinics all the time. Wonder if that was cut in some way from the budget and you have to actually make the time to go to the health center, etc OR if son just failed to notice it went on all around him. </p>
<p>Also… last question: I know the first bill for tuition came to the house. Not sure how future bills will come or if we are just supposed to be notified by son?</p>
<p>Well, dte…I let my S at the age of 16 live in China for a year with a native family so normally, I would say go for it!
However, he was back in China this summer and there were endless stories of hassles at airports, quarrantines and general pain in the buttedness over the H1N1 flu. He was actually held over in Japan for a day. So if there is an outbreak, I think China in particular will over-react in its response.
So maybe now is not the best time to go…
PS I’m a middle school nurse and can’t wait to get vaccinated. I’m strongly encouraging my college-age kids to do so as well.
PPS DTE - Congratulations on your milestone!</p>
<p>The first phone call: “Mom, I didn’t want you to worry just because I called Dad from the hospital and asked for our insurance information. They don’t think my hand is broken.” Luckily the phone call from Fang Jr. arrived before the email from Mr. Fang.</p>
<p>Then the second phone call: “The surgery went well.” Surgery??!! “I’ll still have my cast when you visit next week.” Cast??!! He sounded matter of fact about the whole thing. Nuisance to have to type papers with one hand, and the left hand at that, though.</p>
<p>WooHooo</p>
<h1>theoryson’s grades are in - 2 A’s and 2 B’s</h1>
<p>He was really sweating his Analysis (math) grade and can barely believe he got a B in it. He is psyched and so are we! His grade point is well above the 3.0 needed to maintain scholarships.</p>
<p>Downtoearth, I well know those milestones, different cancer, different chemo, but hideous nonetheless. You can now look forward to an increasing sense of well-being, though it may take a while to manifest </p>
<p>I think I would give your D an out and say you don’t want her to go this year. I know I would have trepidations about a younger S going that far away.</p>
<p>I am SICK
not a cold
more like laryngitis but with scratchy throat and coughing
No fever yet
Tell me this is not the flu</p>
<p>Get well wishes for all who are sick.
For those who want, chicken soup is hot and ready for those who want some…</p>
<p>I’m away for a few days, and lots going on here! I send my best healing wishes for the young Fanglet and especially Missypie’s flu friend. I saw the 60 minutes piece as well and it popped in my head immediately as I was reading your post.
My D also had the BF breakup. H and I couldn’t have been more relieved, but thankfully she called–rather than Skype-- so I could be appropriately sympathetic without trying to mask facial expressions. It would be different if she didn’t have such great new friends (that we met PW), but we know she’ll be better than fine. Sure wish I could have given her a hug, and she even admitted she wished I could have too.
Everybody, stay healthy!</p>
<p>Woo Hoo is right #theorymom!!! Job well done to your son! Funny how over time I’ve come to feel a certain protectiveness/pride towards everyone’s kids here. Never met them, wouldn’t recognize them if I ran into them anywhere on earth and yet… his hard work makes me proud of him! Go figure.</p>
<h1>theorymom – YEEEEEE-HAW!!! w:D:Dt! Way to go #theoryson! Sorry to hear you’re sick. That sounds a little like the flu-type bug that just went through my office; each of us was down for a couple of days, pain in the butt and a good excuse to spend the day in bed, but not too bad. The one who started it had more trouble, diagnosed with pneumonia but is up and doing fine after a few days… she’s also the only one who went to the doctor. I hope your version is more like mine was. Water, water, water.</h1>
<p>Fang – Holy smokes, grey hair much? What a series of phone calls! On the up side, sounds like Fang Jr handled it just fine, so bravo to him.</p>
<p>fraser – Sorry for your daughter’s pain, but glad to hear it will be for the best.</p>
<p>Modadunn – About the tuition bills. geek_son had to fill out and sign a financial contract. In the contract, he had to provide the address to send the bills and he had to give me permission to access his financial records so that I could receive the bills. We’ll receive the next bill in December. Suggest you ask your kiddo if he had similar paperwork. Especially the FERPA waiver giving you permission to access the financial records, because without that (assuming he’s 18) the school can’t tell you much.</p>
<p>theorymom—yay for theoryson, great to see he’s doing so well–</p>
<p>cardinalfang–oh my, sounds like you handled that call with grace, hope he’s doing ok</p>
<p>bblfraser–love the facial expression comment about skype</p>
<p>Thanks for your good wishes, geek_mom and bbl. Fang Junior will be fine. </p>
<p>Sending healing thoughts to all the flu patients and especially Missypie’s friend.</p>
<p>Kudos to theoryson and all others makeing milestones (such as managing a broken hand or finishing chemo : ) DTE, my s. missed a few Japan/Germany 3 week exchanges during HS, in part due to my own reluctance and family circumstance (father fighting cancer) and in part due to the fact he’d not mastered organizational coherence in his school work, which I felt was a sign (at the time) of a lack of maturity for such a financial sacrifice. HE regretted our decision at the time. We didn’t. However, by junior year he’d developed the maturity (in some ways) and was firing on all cylinders. So we agreed (summer of junior year) to a pre-planned (he saved for a year) five-week music performance tour in 2009 that was terrifically expensive compared to the school-run exchanges but well supervised. He did not know a soul on the trip. He made fantastic new friendships at home and abroad and really experienced different cultures. The same group of kids who’d enjoyed shorter trips to Japan and Germany spent the summer jealous of his adventure ; ) In hindsight, I’d have done nothing differently. He did get his cultural adventure, was old enough to appreciate it, and had some skin in the game. And although he took the trip when he was more “mature” he did still manage to lose his green card in France : ) So I say go with your gut, but consider the gift of cultural exchange a worthy future investment when the time and circumstances are right. By engaging on such a trip when one’s friends are NOT involved, I feel they get even more out of it as a learning experience. (But maybe I’m a hard-*ss.)
Good luck with it.</p>