We got our TB tests yesterday at the lovely and scenic Department of Public Heath. An Elmo video was cranking in the waiting room. It was LOUD. Note to self: No Elmo in the house. Ever. I was ready to puncture my own ear drums to make it stop! Luckily, we were called in just as I was raising the pen to my ear.
There is a sliding scale payment for getting tested. The Dr. (?) Nurse (?) who administered the test was apologetic about the fact that we'd have to pay full price. $28 each. In the grand scheme of adoption costs, this was one of the cheapest good times we've had. :)
Friday, we go back to have the results read. Woot. I'll bring the earplugs in case Elmo is in the Hizz-ouse.
5 comments:
Elmo's not too bad! Teletubbies are worse! At least Elmo's educational!
All I could hear was whining. :)
yeah, I guess it's kind of whiny. If you really want to see whiny, watch Bob the Builder stuff...
Or, if you want to see some non-irritating shows check out our current rotation:
-Signing Time
-Charlie & Lola (BBC and really cute)
-Blues Clues (w/Steve, not Joe, and _really_ not Blue's Playhouse which is like Sesame St. on crack)
-Jakers! The adventures of Pigly Winks (CG set in Ireland, gotta love a duck with a brogue)
-DragonTales (which I like, but one of the voices is a little annoying. Mostly good though)
-Big Big World (okay this is on PBS and Bill and I like it, but the songs always make Alannah cry. It's the weirdest thing. She thinks the show is great, jungle animals, educational blah, blah, blah...song starts and she's bawling. I keep letting her watch a bit of it every few months to see if it's okay yet. lol, ugh)
DVDs work out waaaay better for us than the reg. TV option. That means I get to decide if I like it before we bring it into our home/Alannah sees it (and gets attached to a character). Once you zap past the 5 or 6 tracks of plugs for other shows there's no commercials, yay!
We have actually mostly phased out Dora for the yelling-ness and total lack of scientific regard of it. Blue's Clues and Charlie & Lola seem to have eased the transition. ;) I really wanna borrow some Muzzy language DVDs from the library, at least for Spanish. Gotta get on that. Latah! :)
Dude, at least is wasn't Jerry Springer, or one of those "judge" shows.
Good thing you didn't have TB...they put you on 9 months of daily medication...which means 9 more lovely visits to the Dept. of P.H. (They'll only dole out one month of those black market meds at a time - heehee). I'm obviously a TB veteran...so can I NOT adopt now? :( I can pick a kid up, I promise.
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