Day 60

Doctor’s Office — $25.00
Our co-pay under our new insur­ance is $5.00 higher than it used to be but I’ve seen the full bill for these vis­its so I’m not going to com­plain too much. This was a quickie visit — The Daugh­ter had her sec­ond of three Gar­dasil shots. They are very painful. I’m not big into immu­niza­tions but after a lot of thought and con­ver­sa­tion with The Daugh­ter, The Hus­band, and sev­eral peo­ple in the med­ical field (nurses, doc­tors, etc), we decided to do this one. The Daugh­ter is 15; we started the shots at her 15-yo phys­i­cal. They are rec­om­mend­ing these for 11-yo’s but the effec­tive­ness of the shot is only thought to last 5 years. Doesn’t that mean that the effec­tive­ness will be wear­ing off at the very, very, very min­i­mum age at which a par­ent would imag­ine their child need­ing an immu­niza­tion against an STD? Any­way, other than the phys­i­cal pain that the shot pro­duces, I’m at peace with our deci­sion to have her immu­nized and glad that we started them at the age that we did.

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