Remind him how to use the phone.

I just mailed in a claim on our old insurance, which I have to do manually for a number of reasons. The form is terrifying. It's so burdensome.

thank goodness he's ok!

I think about the number of times I pulled shit like that without even thinking it was any big and what my mom went through and oy.

Me too, Brenda.

Glad CJ is safe Suzi. Tell him he had the internet worried sick!!

(((msbelle)))

Watching the dog show. I want a dog.

I have supposedly good health care coverage. Though I have a $3k deductible for the family plus another $1.5k deductible for prescriptions. And I'm seeing a hematologist next week plus whatever treatment he prescribes.

I wish the folks in Washington had to spend 6 months on regular people insurance and maybe they would get a clue.

All my HSA money is in a vacuum somewhere that I haven't tracked down. When I switched from the high-deduc to a regular plan, they kept sending me new debit cards. So last year, I got them switched up at some point (they look exactly the same) and I only realized when they sent me a statement in December that all my expenses that year had come out of the HSA - that rolls over - and not the FSA, which didn't. So I had like three weeks to blow $800 or lose it entirely. I got new glasses and ordered a shit ton of stuff I don't really need from drugstore.com.

But I still haven't figured out what card of the three is right. And when I tried to send in a receipt manually it got denied. So all my medical expenses this year (mostly dental) I've just paid and not been reimbursed for. Maybe that's my next onerous task, figuring out what the hell is going on.

I probably wouldn't have freaked so much if he wasn't so punctual about getting home at 3:05 each day. Plus he missed karate - another not normal thing. I kept myself calm for a while with "he will be home by 4:30 for karate. Don't worry until after 4:30".

The police were still in the parking lot when KCD and CJ got home. I believe some words were spoken to CJ.

He is trying to suck up now - he offered to make dinner.

I am having alcohol on your behalf. so stressy.

Oy. I just saw a commercial for a new Kraft mac and cheese that's oven-baked that pretty much says to make this stuff for your kids because kids don't like the things you cook.

I am so not ready to have teenagers. I guess I have six more years to steel myself.

Okay, I need guts advice - spoilerfonting for anyone who doesn't want to hear it. I threw up Saturday night, had some mild diarrhea on Monday morning, and finally started eating again Monday night because I was HUNGRY. Every time I eat I have burbles and gurgles for hours, and after I ate some swedish fish today I have been in gas agony (since noon) and had more diarrhea. What, if anything, can I do to make myself able to handle 35 high school students for 2 hours tomorrow morning, ideally with neither crippling pain nor bathroom runs? I so rarely have tummy issues I don't know what to do. I have simethicone, which seems to have done nothing, and tums, and I think some immodium. Can I pre-treat with anything to be sure I'll be okay, or is just not eating anything my best bet?