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The Twilight Saga

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Types of Office Visits
My sister lives in New York and she just told me how her doctor is swamped with so many sick people that the office has cancelled well visits, so they don't make the well-people sick-people. Maybe we have lots of urgent care and emergency rooms here? Maybe her area is more populated?I was wanting to summarize my practice in words. After 5 1/2 years most visits fall into one of these groups:Lactation visits - in this category I include well-baby visits where the focus is breastfeeding and families where lactation continues to be a current priority. Also includes the prenatal visits to plan for breastfeeding and inquire about my well-child care philoso

Max's Sleepover (AKA Scott's first dog job.)
Max went to visit Lauren's farm with us. He made a friend name Tory. Tory looks a lot like Scott's Grandma Irma's dog who he use to live with.

Regular Flu Thoughts
The last flu shot I received was 1994 in Georgia. I was the only one in my household that received the vaccination. Mid December, John and William got the flu. They were totally miserable. William's legs were so weak, he wanted to be carried around. Scott was still nursing (at 4) and had mild illness. I wasn't yet pregnant with David. I was unaffected. Prior to that year I worked in Urgent Care for 8 years, I decided year-by-year if I wanted the flu shot depending on circumstances. I probably got it 1/2 the years. I have never noticed a reaction from the shot. Since 1994, I've been in private practice, I have not had much of my patients come in with flu. I opt out because I never felt at ri

Swine Flu Thoughts
I'm weighing in a little late on this topic. Since there is so much hysteria over swine flu, I thought I'd share my experience.My background is urgent care before going into private practice and for the most part I leave time in my schedule for same day "sick" add-ons. In other words, you would think I am on the front line for treating the flu. According to the media, you would think I would be inundated with swine flu cases. In reality, I have not seen what I can call swine flu. (Is it just my practice?) The only exception is a 6 year old boy with chills and fever last spring (at the beginning of this "epidemic") who was very sick. His flu (regular flu) test was positive. Since