tomorrow...

My little boy is turning six years old!

Whoa.


.............

Always be your own advocate

Always be an advocate:
not only for your self,
but for your children.

It's amazing how many people will take the easy road when they think you don't know the information.

It's amazing how many people will contradict themselves when they realize you know your shit.

And sadly, it's amazing how many people just let it all happen.

I'm not one of those people.

Sure, I go with the flow with a lot of things, but not when it comes to my family.

Not when it comes to my children.

And if I become "THAT parent," you know the one I'm talking about... so be it.

I will rather be "THAT parent" that nags and nudges and demands, than "THAT OTHER parent" that lets everyone else run the show.

And it's sad that even with my best intentions and all my resources and all my knowledge.... I'm still going to end up paying out of pocket for something that should be free because there are some PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO DO THEIR JOB, WELL.

Comprehensive should mean comprehensive.

** eye roll **

blah blah

Do you know sucks about having a heart condition?

Not knowing if your chest pain is something serious, or just your average chest pain.

Like, is it:
allergy-induced chest pain?
muscle pulled chest pain?
heart condition-something amiss chest pain?

and if it's 'heart condition chest pain'.... then how bad does it have to get to be considered serious?

See how complicated something as trivial as a pain in your heart can be?

It's obnoxious.

And then, of course, the whole thing leads to the next question:
Call doctor?
Don't call doctor?
Go to sleep?
Go the the ER?

Ridiculous.
I think we all just need some sort of body-scan machinery: something small, like a cell phone, or something similar in size, and just point it to ourselves and CLICK! A screen will pop up and tell us what's going on.

I'm sure an invention like this is already in the works. It just needs to be developed and shared faster. And can it be slightly on the inexpensive side? Hockey is an expensive sport and we just mailed out the checks for Julius' fall season.