Cash, if it's just the money, we'll take care of you. Getting the anti-virals fast is really important in terms of how long and how severe this infection is going to be, and we wuv you.

Cashmere, Owen was probably immunized at 18 months. Your kids are a good age to catch chicken pox, if they do catch it, and they're perfectly healthy, strong babies. It's okay.

Please don't fret about them. Chicken Pox can be harmful to people with compromised immune systems, and in some daycare centers, kids were getting that flesh eating strep in their Chicken Pox sores -- that's because their parents were sending them back before they were healed over. If your kids get it, they will be fine, and they will be more immune to Chicken Pox than if they were immunized.

I want you to get that anti-viral before Monday, though. Is there any chance of that?

It's really, really important to get it right away, to minimize the effects of the Shingles.

I'm sorry, that was a cross post.

Does your doctor's office have anyone on call? This is important enough to call about.

I've got a $75 urgent care co-pay

You got a Paypal account? If $75 is stopping you from urgent care and a prescription for the anti-viral cream happening tonight, then please do not let it. You just found $75 under the couch.

X-post with Kristin.

What Sean said. Except that my part of it was under the fridge where the cats batted it.

I'll call my doc's office and see what I can do. I'm fairly sure they don't have an emergency number (they're not very big on service). We've got the money, I just hate to spend it.

I'll make the calls first thing in the morning and see. I'm pissed at myself for not asking for the script before I left her office. I wouldn't have filled it unless I needed it. I know that time is a big factor with anti-virals.

I'm a doofus.

And you guys are all sweet.

I'll call my doc's office and see what I can do. I'm fairly sure they don't have an emergency number (they're not very big on service). We've got the money, I just hate to spend it.

Most doctors have an answering service who will page them. Our pedi is cheap, so he leaves his pager number on an answering machine. Our GP's number either forwards to his service, or to the service of whatever doctor is on call.

Please try now, and see if they do. You want to start the anti-viral medication (it's not a cream) tonight, if possible. /nag

ok life is settled.

Matt is going back to his old company with a new job. and before the world jumps on him, his new manager told him he'd be crazy not to take the opportunity. and although his old company was driving him crazy, the new company was driving him crazy in new and interesting ways.

My husband has an amazing gift - even people he doesn't know very well meet him and want the best for him

and now for the first time in 4 weeks i feel like I can breathe. collapsing now

No seriously, the three of us will nag you to death about this. Because we love you.

And no, your doctor was stupid for not writing you the script -- just in case. You weren't stupid. You're not a doctor.