To those whose kids have graduated and are working

MomofWildChild
Tue, 17 May 2011 12:46:54 +0000

^^ I was about to say what cbreeze said. Unless you have set up online ordering, insurance companies tend to balk at 90 day supplies. That would be too easy.

The other problem is young people are in a deductible even once they are covered, and are hesitant to go and incur the expense. I had to scrounge around under our sinks to find my son some inhalers because he didn’t want to take the financial hit of going to a doc just to get a scrip for the inhalers.

However, he DID find an opthamologist for a chelazion (sp?) on his lower eyelid after Dr. Mom (not…) correctly diagnosed it while we visited him at Easter. I was shocked that he acted immediately, especially since it was going to involve potentially painful treatment.

I do give advice and even help out financially on occasion. I don’t feel like I am helicoptoring. My helicoptor got shot out of the sky about the time my kids went off to boarding school. (the exception was the college application process for WildChild- my kids still joke about my accordian file with the slots for all the schools…)

As a parent I don’t have a problem with helping either of my kids since we have the financial resources and I don’t see any signs of either of them depending on us or taking advantage of us. D and her H live in our city, and we frequently treat them to dinner, so paying for a few things for our son just doesn’t seem out of line to me.