May. 25th, 2012

brief PSAs

May. 25th, 2012 10:29 pm
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1) Turns out when you call the peds because your kid says it hurts when she pees, this is more like a "pull her out of school and come in this afternoon" call than a "do these three things and wait and see" call. Caught me off guard because she's never been sick much and I think every other time we've called about something we've gotten the treat-and-wait response (even when we were kind of freaked out, like with the fever with hives, which turns out to be a thing that just happens sometimes).

1.5) If you need to get a clean urine sample from your kid, ask for tips/instructions. The nurse just handed me the cup and a couple of wipes and was like "bathroom's over there" and I figured I more or less knew what I was doing from, you know, personal experience, but when I voiced some doubts the doctor mentioned a couple of sample-quality guidelines afterwards that I hadn't really taken into account, so I wish I'd been more demanding of the nurse. (One thing I might try next time: taking her pants off one leg entirely, for greater freedom of leg positioning.)

2) Speaking of pants, I became dissatisfied with black maternity corduroys (as a) it is late May and b) I am not actually pregnant any more) and bought myself a new summer pants wardrobe. (Two pairs plus a shorts.) I did this at Target, where they have instituted this brilliant system of categorizing all their pants into six fit categories, in terms of how high the waist is and how loose they are in the hip/thigh. So if for instance you are me and you want high-waisted big-hipped pants, you can immediately know to only bother trying on pants in category 1. I haaate clothes shopping and am never any good at telling how pants are going to fit from looking at them (I'm pants at it, one might say) so this was super useful in speeding up the process. Also Target seems to be pretty good about stocking inbetweenie sizes (I was looking for 16s, but I think I was seeing 18s too).

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