I read through a page of methadone and its interaction list includes my prescription pain meds (which the specialist explicitly knows about) as well as sleeping pills which I'm mos def taking.

He has a lot of explaining to do tomorrow.

may I ask, what is the methadone supposed to do for you?

because I have been sitting here all night trying to figure out if you have a heroin habit.

ita, did the specialist prescribe it or one of his interns/fellows/flunkies/lackeys? I ask because both an RT and I had to school a new "doctor" in the dosages Xoponex came in and had to do it at bedside in the hospital (this was mid July so right after the newbies start.

Also, my SIL who is a doc and I got into a disagreement about meds. I actually know more than I'd like at this point about breathing stuff and she kept saying, "but it does the same thing as albuterol." Yes. But it does it better with less heart stuff.

Sigh.

Today was a super good soccer day. Grace WANTED to meltdown but then Noah held her hand and got her to play. Then she was ready to play without him so he went to the baseball diamond and played kickball with the help of some of the big kids (youngest was a 4th grader and oldest was probably 16).

During practice, Alexie, the most ADORABLE 7 or 8 year old boy EVER, who has either MD or CP and uses a walker, kept calling Grace's name so that she and he could pass the ball back and forth. They did for a bit which was adorbs. At the end of practice, he said, "Gracie is cute. She's the cutest on the team!" She signed thank you and then they gave each other hugs. LOVE.

Ded from the kiddie cute.

Go, go, Gracie! And Noah rocks!

Oh, I'd love an albuterol alternative that doesn't make my heart race.

The methadone is for pain control. In order to reduce the amount of home pain meds I'm on. But I bet it's used to wean people off dilaudid, so what happens if you take them both at the same time?

Aww, Gracie and her older friend.

Xoponex, Suzi, but it's non-formulary, so lots of insurance won't cover it. If you can get your doc to say it is necessary due to tachycardia, then they might budge (but maybe not). Our copay on it is $90/3-month supply. We have it in both nebulizer and inhaler. If we have an extra sample inhaler, I could send it to you. I think we might?

At picture day, Grace and Alexie sat next to each other and held hands because he doesn't have enough trunk strength to sit on his own and she was sad and having a fit. We love Alexie. He's the middle kid of 5 (and mom is a gymnastics coach who is Latina and dad is a Israeli). Beautiful kids. Alexie was also the kid who was trash talking his older brother Maximilian at one of the games. Max was on the other team. Cracked me up.

Aw, kid sweetness.

Aww. Kat, that's adorable.

Right now, I'm looking for a good font for a Princess-Bride influenced SPN illustration in my typical scratchy attempting-realistic style. I don't know where to start, or where to ask. And I have no pictures to post. Most of the questions that have come to me for a thread like that have had external links, if any.

Good point. Mostly, I have been texting the few things I draw to people and/or posting them to Tumblr, just to keep me motivated, but I'm sure I'd have actual materials questions.

OMG Kat's kids are ADORABLE and Alexie sounds fantastic. So glad it was a good day.

I went to stretch class tonight and am now relaxing with cheese and wine. And sharing the cheese with my cat. So good. I might need to go get more cheese.

OH!

I had the worst training EVER about the gays at work on Tuesday. This guy who is in charge of the anti-discrimination unit came to teach us to be nice to the gay kids. Doozies that would have made Buffistas growl:

1. He said kids these days use the word queer because they like the fluidity. I mumbled under my breath that people like queer because they think of themselves as non-heteronormative.

2. When he asked who knew about Stonewall and only X number of people raised their hands, he actually said, "Well let me educate you."

3. He actually said the words equitability and comfortability as opposed to equity and comfort.

I wanted to say, "You are the reason we gays can't have nice things."