It is definitely a Monday!

It isn't even noon yet and it has definitely been a Monday! It started off with Tom not being able to find his truck keys. He ALWAYS keeps them on the bookcase when he takes them out of his pocket. But it wasn't there this morning. He looked everywhere and couldn't find them. We are still on the hunt for them but he had to go to work with his spare key.

Then I called Blue Cross to find out if her meningitis shot was covered under our insurance because if not, I was going to have her go to the Health Department to get it. Well getting to talk to someone when you call Blue Cross using their phone system is like wading through a pool of manure. I finally got through and got what I needed but just in the nick of time because Brittanie's appointment was at 9 and Blue Cross' phone lines didn't open till 8:30 and it was 8:50 by the time I actually spoke to someone!

So Brittanie went to the doctor's office to get her tetanus booster shot and her meningitis shot and the USC form filled out by her doctor's office. When she got there, they gave her her shots and then told her that they can't fill out the form where it asks when she had her MMR shots done because they don't have a copy of her shot record from when she was a baby. I was stunned by that! When we moved to South Carolina in 1996, I went to the Health Department and had her Louisiana shot record transferred to South Carolina and took that South Carolina form to her doctor. That was the one and only time I have ever been to the Health Department. Her doctor's office gave me a copy of that record to give to Grace when she started there in 1st grade. Then South Carolina passed the law that kids had to get the Hepatitis B series by 7th grade. So Grace asked for an updated shot record. I took her to get her Hepatitis B series and once again, her doctor's office gave me a full copy of ALL of her shots to give to Grace. Then when she started at Swansea, they required her shot record and once again her doctor's office gave me a full copy of her shots. But now that she is starting college they say they don't have it. They claim all they have a record of are her hepatitis B series because we got those shots from them. So I called Swansea High and Ms. Porter (who is always so wonderful to everyone) said she would be happy to make a copy and leave at the front desk. So Brittanie had to leave her doctor's office in West Columbia and go to Swansea to pick up her shot record, then take it back to her doctor's office in West Columbia (and I told her to make sure she points out the practice name on the bottom of the form!), and then take it to Sumter. Thank goodness her car gets 35mpg. But that is so annoying! How do you lose a shot record? That is the part of a medical chart that is never to be purged!