Can Someone Make Me a T-shirt (maternity of course)

another long stupid story, but stick around for the t-shirt part. We decided to put the two oldest is public school. In order to do that we needed their immunizations records. My husband went by our old doctor’s office (we just switched doctors like 2 weeks ago) to sign a release form and get the records. there were no records. Unfortunately, I know why. When we moved from NJ to upstate NY in ’99, we doctor hunted for a bit and there was a delay in transferring records until we settled. Somewhere around 2002-2003, it was brought to our attention the records were never transferred. I proceeded to call our old doc’s office and got a lecture about “well, those records are super buried,” I just decided to mail a medical release form and assumed that was the end of it. Since the kids are home schooled, I never had a need to check. Well, my request was ignored.
My husband called and got the same lecture-I think the woman taped it and replayed it from the last time. But thank you Dear Husband, his reply was something like “well I don’t give a crap, I need those records.” He called the next day and got more attitude. So we decided on Plan B. we called the County Health Office and asked about having the kid’s shots redone because by the time these people get off their posteriors…County Health said that idea was fine, it shouldn’t hurt them medically and just get a note saying they got their first round of shots…First i called our brand new family practitioner. Another problem,he doesn’t do immunizations. He prefers patients 5 and up because he doesn’t have enough pediatric patients to keep immunizations around.
Sooo, I call the local pediatrician (there are two, and one happened to be my previous landlord, so we refuse to go to him). We explain the situation, they say “fine”, just change your insurance. I did. I called again and explained to make the appointment. OK, no problem. Yesterday was the appointment. When I get there, I explain the kids are new patients because the receptionist seemed baffled by my lack of records. We are waiting and the other four kids with me, especially the two youngest are not behaving, they are commotion making, and one of course had to have an “accident”. When the receptionist called my oldest two in, I asked her if they could just go in as I had all the smaller children, and explained again what they needed-their first round of shots for school as we cannot locate their records, and a note to the schools stating they got their first round and will continue to get the rest of their immunizations.
The doctor refused to give them their shots because they didn’t have their records. But while they were in the office, he gave them a lecture about what’s wrong with home schooling: “Does your mother know physics? Does she know calculus? I’m a doctor and I don’t even know physics and calculus. That’s why you need to be in school.” Are you freakin’ kidding me?
My friend says I really need the t-shirt that says: ” please comment on my life. i need your judgment”
I thought I must have been wearing the shirt, but my friend pointed out that since I home school, it is not legible. If I had the shirt, I would seriously wear it at this point.
Yesterday, when I told my husband this story, he called the doc’s office in NJ back and yelled at them some more, so they should be faxing the records over today.
Update: The doctor did fax over the immunization records. That is done. There was trouble deciding what grade to put Rosey Posey into because the home schooling contact person at the School Board would not return my calls. My husband went to the school and complained. The guidance counselor called right back today, put her in 10th grade and even said to Rosey Posey over the phone “there should be no problem because you home schoolers are always advanced.”
Now I am hearing the middle school is worse than the public. A friend of mine is getting me an application for the local Catholic school (which is supposedly one of the few orthodox Catholic schools in the diocese) for tuition assistance. I wasn’t going to put them in the Catholic school because we cannot afford it. My friend said they give out so much assistance to non-practicing Catholics, she would rather see people from families like mine helped out and to spread a genuine Catholic atmosphere in their parish school. What a nice compliment. 🙂