I don’t know about other places, but we had a lot of adult RSV cases this year. I think it’s usually a symptomatic or a mild cold in adults but can be passed onto babies. My youngest had the RSV vaccine as a baby because he had compromised lungs as a preemie(he still caught it and wound up hospitalized for a week). The insurance fought us about it because it’s a very expensive vaccine.

I took some classes through HES and found them to be really hit or miss. The Poetry In America classes were excellent, but others just seemed a little off on expectations. Basically the same things that you found; multiple platforms, unrealistic or vague expectations, inconsistency everywhere. Part of it is that these professors are contracted for a class or two and teach elsewhere full time. Honestly, I’d withdraw. HES, in my opinion, isn’t really worth the money, especially when the same certificates and degrees are so much cheaper elsewhere.

Around 40% of the Covid patients coming through our local ER are fully vaccinated. They likely don’t need admission, but still feel crummy. We are at 8.13% right now, so it’s definitely sweeping through the community.

I’ve definitely paid for the kids to do fun group activities with the church, but never up front like that or even that much. And it sounds like they were convincing OP that she had to pay it just to send her son to Sunday School. This whole church sounds like a disaster. Find someplace else.

Charging $150 for a Sunday School class? What in the ever loving Jesus flipping over tables in the temple nonsense is that????

Yeah—I’m not sure these are the people I want to be around either. I do understand the concern as a parent(I deal with a lot of mentally unstable, violent people, but that’s a minority of people with mental illness). But seriously, jumping right to this level of gossip feels like a lot of red flags to me. But I have been diagnosed with both PTSD and depression. I am not violent; I’ve just seen a lot of bad things and I’m sad. So this hits me on a personal level.

I would talk to the principal but…I don’t know your local culture or the school’s culture, and this could really be devastating with long term effects. It may not be fixable. Rumors are like that and if there is any kind of anti police sentiment to start with, there may not be any coming back. I personally(and it’s just me) would probably consider just pulling my kid out of the school. Especially if they are not supporting his emotional needs. You definitely don’t have to answer here, but my sister is a first responder specific therapist at a therapeutic center that caters to police/fire/military/EMS. She knows a lot of obscure resources nationwide and I’d be more than willing to tap into her network if you think there is something that might help your DH. Trauma is trauma; and when you have traumas piled on top of traumas, it can be too much. Feel free to PM if I can help at all. You may have this, but if not, 1-800-COPLINE(1-800-267-5463) is a great resource. It’s all retired LEOs who have undergone significant mental health training. You as a family member can call and talk as well, and they have access to some great resources.

I’m sorry. We were able to move; but with all the rain(and another inch plus today) we haven’t been able to do the repairs and outdoor things we’d been planning.

Wait, is this part of Parkinson’s? (off to Google)

I have a friend who Door Dashes for fun. She says she makes around $70 a day doing it, but I don’t know how many hours that is. Probably just lunch through dinnertime since restaurants here open late and close early. You couldn’t pay me enough to drive school bus here, even though they’re paying close to $30 an hour. We have five or six bus drivers already off on quarantine due to being exposed by kids on their bus. Everyone is masked and no bus drivers have caught it, but quarantine means they’re making no money. It’s just not with it right now.

Haha I wish there was a sticky we could leave that’s like hi! Just passing through! I always feel dumb.

I’m always accidentally clicking on people’s profiles so you probably see my name on there a lot. 😂

My grandmother is the same way. They divorced almost 40 years ago for Pete’s sake. The woman he left her for and married died suddenly and unexpectedly in her 50s. He’s been dead two years now. Just let them both Rest In Peace and move on. But she’s very elderly and never will. He had a happy second marriage despite the circumstances of how it began, and even though she also remarried and claimed to be happy, she’s never gotten over any of it(especially how happy he was in his second marriage. Truly, I know there was an affair, but my step grandmother was a lovely woman). It’s a lost cause at this point. But it’s so freaking draining to constantly hear it rehashed.

Now that everything I’m reading and hearing says Pfizer is getting EAU soon, I’m no longer considering it. It sounds like he’ll be able to get one dose before we go and that plus natural immunity should be okay.

Does each individual have a healthcare card? While we took insurance information(I don’t know why, because my understanding was the vaccinations weren’t being charged to insurance), we only have one insurance card for the whole family. Only my husband’s name and DOB, since he carries the insurance, is on it. My kids don’t have any form of photo ID, not even school ID. Each sheet of paper with name/address/DOB had a sticker with the lot number and vaccination type, and another sticker with the same info was put on the person’s vaccination card. I assume it was all input into a database later on, but that wasn’t happening at the clinic. I know my husband’s Covid shot was on his vaccination transcript from the state, so they’re obviously getting all the information.

No, but Corning was done by the national guard, not local healthcare. It wouldn’t surprise me if they had enough personnel to immediately enter people into the state database. It is efficient, but we aren’t sitting there putting stuff into the computer either. The paperwork is collected and sent on at the end of the day. Most of those sites are shut down now because pretty much everyone who wants to be vaxxed is. But no one is asking for birth certificates if you write down 2009 and the child was born in 2010. We didn’t ask for any age verification on any pediatrics, just photo ID for parents. I think the pharmacies are immediately entering data. Most of our mass vax sites are closed now and we only have a day here and there where it’s open and people can come get vaccinated. Now that you can walk into any pharmacy and get vaccinated, they’re no longer necessary, but someone must be thinking they’ll be short term opened again once Pfizer gets its emergency authorization. I believe all adult vaccinations are on the state vaxx registry too. DH recently couldn’t find his copy of his hep B vaccines and was able to call the state. They sent him a transcript of every vaccine he’d ever had.

He’s in school. We’ll only be at universal for 3 days, but I honestly expect he’ll get less exposure outdoors there than he does at school.

Anyone 12 and over will get the adult dose, anyone 11 and under gets the pediatric dose. from the moderna vs Pfizer studies though it does seem that dose matters re longer lasting immunity. They’re registered but honestly at the mass vaccine clinics, they want the adult’s photo ID and then briefly scan over the paperwork. Later on the paperwork is sent to the state to register, but no one is there looking up stuff on state registries to determine if it’s a first or second dose or even a third or what vaccine you had before. I know a couple people who wanted a booster who just walked in and said it was their first shot. Someone might pick it up inputting it into a state registry a week or two later, but I haven’t heard of them getting any phone calls. The mass vax clinics here are very Wild West. I think I will probably wait. We fly out October 25 and I just got word that we’re planning a pediatric mass vaccination clinic around the 15th, so the higher ups in the state must be expecting emergency auth around then.

My public schooled 11 year old and 9 year olds do nothing but talk about video games, Pokémon characters, and Percy Jackson characters. They also write fan fiction about all of the above. When they’re with their public school friends this is what they talk about too. I think your husband is out of touch with current middle schoolers.

Literally, nobody in my area would care—I could post it publicly on FB pages and nobody cares. There’s a lot of people locally who have gotten their 11-year-olds vaccinated and put it all over and it’s just not on anyone’s radar. Including a couple doctors at the hospital. Unfortunately I have way over committed to conference speaking this spring and none are near Orlando. Fall is going to be my free time to get away. I may just get antibodies tested and not worry about it; he had Covid last November(though I didn’t test, he had mild symptoms while I had Covid) and is a very healthy kid overall. I do have some qualms about giving my 5’2” 125 pound kid the child dose though.

I’d probably just take him to a vaccine clinic, to be honest. They aren’t really asking people’s ages and there’s nothing to sign attesting that he’s 12 or older. You sign a general waiver or acknowledgement as a parent, but honestly nobody is asking. If the child looked significantly under 12 they might ask, but he doesn’t. You have to put down a birthdate, but I could probably write his actual birthdate and no one would really look. I can’t imagine any doctor around here prescribing it off label. I also don’t think we‘ll have emergency authorization before we leave.

I’ve been on here around 10 years now, I think, and I remember those posters. Personally, I think it’s easy to lose yourself whether you’re homeschooling or not. I don’t homeschool right now, but I have been the one to sacrifice for DH’s career and business. Watching him get promoted while I’m working part time because there’s zero childcare does rankle a bit.

I wouldn’t even think twice about it then. Jumping and moving is great for bone density and it sounds like your cousin is doing a great job.

If the trampoline has a net, I’d think there’s less chance of breaking a hip or something that on a hardwood floor. There’s a lot of give on a trampoline. I had a patient the other day who broke her hip falling a padded, soft, cushy rug. And frankly when you’re 79 and have Alzheimer’s and want to jump on a trampoline, and it has a net, go for it. I’ve been a paramedic too long to want anyone on a trampoline without a net though.

A different child I would postpone this trip. But this child is autistic, though high functioning, and has been looking forward to this for years. I think rescheduling for after he’s 12 would cause some mental health issues that are more of a risk than catching Covid a second time. I just wish he was vaccinated.