The rest of the week

**2nd post of the day**

Here’s what went on for the rest of our week:

Mon – I headed to the health dept to get a TB test done so that I could volunteer at Black Pine.  My journey with the health dept has been a roller coaster ride.  First, I got corrected when I called to make the appointment that my name is actually Kristina instead of just Kristi.  Then I got told my address, which actually isn’t my current address & hasn’t been for a few years, but it is still my parents’ address.  The lady on the phone couldn’t believe that their records were that far out of date, like it was my fault or something.  Then she got all concerned about how far of a drive it would be for my appt on Thursday for my tetanus shot (the two things can’t be done at the same time even though they don’t have anything to do with one another, don’t know why since no one could actually explain it to me, but that’s just how it’s done) because that appt was going to be at their Goshen location.  Just so we’re clear, based on where I live it’s about half way in between the two locations.  So now I’m at my appt for the TB test and I didn’t write down the agency requesting my getting the TB test (off to the side of that was boxes to check for things like immigration, health care and something else.)  The paperwork lady told me I had to put down an agency and as I tried to explain to her what it was for, she interrupted me and asked me if I was there to get the test for immigration status.  Are you serious?  I was born in this county (yes, read that as county) and you apparently had my information on file to correct my name so you’d think it wasn’t an immigration issue.  It did finally explain the Black Pine thing & how it didn’t fit their boxes categories, so she just wrote it off to the side.  Then I got crap because the check number I was using was 101 (they only accept cash or checks).  They apparently have a policy to not allow low check numbers due to them being new accounts.  I explained that it was not a new account (it’s about 2 years old, that’s how often I write checks), that it was our HSA account and that if they accepted debit cards like everyone else that they wouldn’t have to worry about low check numbers.  She told me she’d let it slide this one time, but not the next time.  Finally, I get to go back and I get the test done.  Now that lady asks me when I can come back on Wed so that they can check the results, I explain to her that I’m going to the Goshen office on Thurs for the tetanus shot and they could just check it then.  And do you know what I was told, they don’t share records so that wouldn’t work and I’d have to come back on Wed.  This is the COUNTY health dept, the same one that set both of my appts, but they don’t share records.  Are you kidding me?  So I scheduled to go back on Wed afternoon.  And I was so glad to get out of there.

Mon (con’t) – Then after all that aggravation, I headed to the Goshen Recycling Center to empty all the yard waste out of the truck so they can turn it into mulch.  They were nice and only charged me half price since the guy thinks I have a small truck.  Don’t know how a Tacoma with the long bed is a small truck, but that’s fine with me if he thinks it.  Then I spent 45 minutes unloading all the grass, leaves and plant clippings from the truck.  Sure helped with the aggravation that I had accumulated from the health dept.  Got everything unloaded and took the truck through the car wash to clean it out.  Then I grabbed some lunch and headed to Loveway.  Loving on the horses helped me calm down, but the class I assisted with was a study in flexibility.  Nothing really went as planned, but in the end the kids had fun and everything got done so it all worked out.  I stayed after and helped take the horses back out to pasture and helped sweep out the barn.

Mon (con’t) – Then I was home to facilitate school for Tyler.  I thought it was going to take longer than it actually did because last time we did fractions, it took forever.  But something happened between the last time and this time, not sure what it was, but he flew through fractions and told me they are easy.  That’s good because I’m pretty sure we’re going to be adding irregular fractions this time around.

Tues – Tyler started watching Planet Earth videos for science.  He loves them and can’t wait for my to let him watch some more of them.  We had lunch with Grandma, then headed to the library for our weekly library trip.  Tyler also picked out 2 Star Wars movies to watch and he HAD to watch one that afternoon.  He also had TKD that evening.

Wed – We played with the cats at Pet Refuge in the Main Cat Room & in the Small Cat Room.  We also cleaned up after them, but we had help this week.  It was good to see our friend, Jenn, and we were super glad she’s finally feeling better after being sick.  I did head back to the health dept and got the paperwork to show that the TB test was negative.  Luckily that didn’t take long.  I got Tyler to play some math games on his computer.  He seems to retain things really well after he’s had to use it in situations like games.

Thurs – Tyler watched his other Star Wars video from the library and decided that for school he wanted to watch for things that didn’t make sense based on what happened in the other movies or for things like changes of scenery or clothing during a scene.  I thought it was a great way to work on noticing details so I let him.  You wouldn’t believe the number of things that he found.  I went to the Goshen location of the health dept to get my tetanus shot.  But that didn’t work out.  They refused to give it to me because of my latex allergy and told me that they would be surprised if any doctor would give it to me either.  I came home and did some research because I thought maybe latex was an ingredient and I didn’t know it.  But it turns out that the latex is either in the stopper of the vial or in the syringe itself, which contaminates the vaccine, which can cause the reaction.  And since we don’t know what the reaction would be (it’s like a bee sting, you never know if you are going to react strongly or not), they aren’t taking the chance.  So now I have medical reason for not getting some vaccinations.  In the evening I took Tyler to TKD.  We left early because he wasn’t feeling well, but after a bath and some extra Vitamin C, he seemed better.  And it turns out he was because he was good when he woke up on Fri morning.

And you can read about Fri (which was a totally awesome day) in the previous post here: http://soaringmountainsacademy.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/friday/