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One day down: it’s fun. My one wish is that I had more hands: whenever I sit down for a session, or to look up a blog by someone whose card I’d just collected, or catch up with twitter or others’ blogs about blogher, baby E decided she needs to be held RIGHT NOW. And then [...]
I was right: my ex-OB was lying to me.
One of the comments on DoubleX’s reader stories of health insurance nightmares: To the woman with blood clots… Call your insurance company and ask for their Appeals department. You want to file an expedited appeal. (Expedited appeals are different legally than regular appeals. The company is required to get you a decision generally in less [...]
If medical bills underly 60% of bankruptcies, then how much of all debt, including outstanding debt that hasn’t yet crippled anyone, is due to medical expenses? The figure comes from a Harvard Law School/Harvard Medical School/Ohio University report (via HuffPo), which also found that Nationally, a quarter of firms cancel coverage immediately when an employee [...]
I click onto the NY Times web site and the first headline I see is this: Finding Hope Online, Hoping a Job Follows By PETER S. GOODMAN 5:41 PM ET In Columbia, S.C., Raymond Vaughn, a laid-off window installer, says he has applied unsuccessfully for dozens of jobs and is now studying for a career in [...]
Current firsts: In addition to the word ‘lamp,’ Z recognizes the dog’s name. She now likes putting things into and taking them out of containers. Endlessly. Until she gets bored, at which point she gets up on her tippy-toes, or hands herself along furniture, or crouches down to pick up lint, gets up, crouches down to pick up [...]
Nevertheless, its what finally got Z to try fingerfoods: I baked some sugary pecan-fig-orange cookies that she was rather taken with. Yes, I know how many items it contains that one is not supposed to let a less-than-one-year-old person nibble on. But she insisted. She grabbed the cookies out of my hand and shrieked an [...]
Baby Z can do it now: Big change from the less successful lip-crawling phase.* And non-groaning phase. Also note: how I torture my child by moving her most coveted toy (=Bumbo seat part) further and further away from her, forget to move the laptop computer out of the easy-to-reach vicinity, and let our little dog [...]
So there’s an actual report that found what anyone who’s ever adjunct-taught a college course probably already knew: that adjuncting is overall BAD (via Bitch.Ph.D.). It takes a toll on the quality of one’s work as a teacher and therefore (naturally) takes a toll on students as well. My experience is that after the first [...]
Paul Krugman’s right: one of the most important areas of legislation, if not THE most important area of legislation that the next administration should enact is universal healthcare. Here’s what’s wrong with not having any kind of universal healthcare: it places people’s bodily integrity completely within the for-profit realm. Whether or not people are able [...]
Faustina’s had a few more firsts: As of this Thursday, she can turn over, from tummy to back (which she tries to do frequently then squawks in dismay to have someone turn her back over onto her tummy so that she can flip onto her back again. And so on.); Week before this one she [...]
Faustina laughed out loud for the first time today. I was giving her a bath tonight, trying to imitate what her father does (he’s away on business for a few days – so I’ve taken over bath duty), squirting water on her belly with the crocodile bath toy. And she laughed. And laughed again. It [...]
I took Faustina for her one-month checkup today. Where she also got the second installment of the hep-B vaccine. I love her doctor: a young woman, perhaps a couple years younger than me (women her age always remind me of my sister and so I suspect I have a particular fondness for them), an immigrant [...]
I love Obama. What’s not to love? But I’m torn about Hillary Clinton, I feel for her now as she’s being abandoned. And not because it would have been nice to have a woman president. It would have, of course. It’s just that her healthcare plan was much more solid than Obama’s, and what’s more, [...]
“In fact, Mrs. Clinton was accurately repeating the story as it was told to her — and it turns out that while some of the details were slightly off, the essentials of her story were correct. After all the fuss, The Washington Post eventually conceded that “Bachtel’s medical tragedy began with circumstances very close to [...]
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