Mother of the Year

I'm expecting some sort of notification any time now, is this sort of thing fed-x'd or what?







This morning I took Burl for his MMR vaccine. We happily entertained ourselves amidst a sea of sickies... Burl was weighed and measured. He is 10kg and, well, I can't remember how tall he is or what his head circumference is - that info is in his baby book (mother-of-the-year). Last time Burl was at the dr, he was 11kg. They always weigh babies in their diapers, clothes and shoes -on a scale that has always seemed ridiculously imprecise. About ten minutes later, the nurse wanted to weigh Burl again and then told me he's not growing. Ridiculous. Especially when what her concern should have been is that Burl appears to have lost 9% of his body weight in a little over a month.







After about 40 minutes, it was our turn. The dr did a thorough exam; normal temp, testicles, internal organs etc and then told me that Burl has acute otitis medea in his right ear. This means no MMR vaccine and now for some reason - I think cuz they'd already prepared the shot under his name - I have to take him to the health department once he's been better for a week.





Blah blah, blah. So, poor little B has been cooking up a heavy duty ear infection and I just thought he was cranky and rubbing his ear cuz he was teething... Mother of the Year...





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Links of interest:

• Lots of buzz lately about the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Among his many titles, Moon heads the Federation for Universal Peace, he and a delegation are in Paraguay traveling with Neil Bush. Here's a Salon article from June 2004 that stuck in my head ever since. An example of the US policy of democracy-for-a-handful-of-wealthy-megalomaniacal-zealots. Hail to the Moon king: The deeply weird coronation of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in a Senate office building -- crown, robes, the works -- is no longer one of Washington's best-kept secrets. By John Gorenfeld The author has just published a book called Bad Moon Rising
• For my favorite fantasist: Otto von Bismarck at the Bat The fight for the soul of my fantasy-baseball league.
• For Fun. An excellent article about one of the redeeming aspects of US culture. Simpson Family Values
• For shame. There are more slaves on the planet now than ever before. Hear Leonard Lopate's interview with Benjamen Skinner, author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery