flu shot

woohoo, I’m very proud to say that I accomplished MAKING our ped give Austin and Aidan their flu shots today (Aidan will need another in a month though), we have medicaid and aparently if you have any kind of gov’t assisted insurance, then you have to wait until the “special batch” of flu shots arrive on december 1st(or whenever they decide to ship thm out), meanwhile anyone who has private insurance can get theirs whenever!!! Well, I made a few calls to both medicaid and 2 calls to his dr telling them to look at my older son’s chart (asthma, bouts of pnemonia and bronchitus etc etc), and telling them we would PAY for the friggen shots, the first time I called I was told that legally we couldn’t pay for them..uhhh…WHAT? Then they called me back and told me that I could indeed pay for the shots (duh). They only had 25 left for Austin’s age so we went and got them today.

I just think it’s a crock of that I had to work this hard to get them flu shots just b/c we don’t have private insurance, when my sister and her kids walked in for their yearly checkups didn’t even ASK for the shots and were just given them anyway!!!!!! Don’t get me wrong I do feel very greatful that we have assistance to help us medically, but things like this just get under my skin.